Lewisham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Lewisham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Lewisham
Lewisham fries across the borough - the Lewisham High Street and Deptford High Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the New Cross Road and Catford kitchens run alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Blackheath Village to Sydenham and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Lewisham rates around 2,400 food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
What the Blackheath Village and Sydenham cooks labour under - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is exactly what we degrease. Cleaned right it draws as it was meant to, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate and running cooler, since a clean Lewisham fan no longer battles a greased one to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Blackheath Village cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Sydenham service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Lewisham fire risk assessment and insurer have the record they ask for.
Filters
The standard for commercial cooklines: they trap grease and slow flame spread. Cleaned, or replaced when warped or corroded.
Common on older or lighter setups; they clog fast and pass grease through if neglected. We flag where a baffle upgrade is overdue.
On the odour and emission-controlled systems near Lewisham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Lewisham cookline's extraction and its fire protection are one system - and a clean is the moment to check the join.
Nozzles aimed at the canopy and cooking points; grease build-up around them on a busy Blackheath Village line is exactly what they exist to fight. We clean around them without disturbing the system.
Where the gas shuts off if extraction fails on a Blackheath Village line, we work without tripping it - and flag it if it is not behaving.
Checked for the grease that would stop them closing - a quiet failure point on a Sydenham system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Lewisham
We are under Lewisham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A transport depot break room in Lewisham had a persistent surface grease film inhibiting the ventilation airflow and making the system run loud. We used a high-pressure degreaser rinse to wash the film off the interior surfaces without water ingress, maximising the extraction and neutralising the cooking odour. It was done in the depot's quietest operational window.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Lewisham service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Blackheath Village cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Sydenham takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Lewisham canopy, filters and fan, agree scope and frequency.
Remove filters and access panels, protect the cookline.
Canopy, filters and fan to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate and next-due date for your Lewisham fire logbook.
Questions
It depends how hard the kitchen runs. Under TR19 Grease, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day points to roughly every three months, moderate to every six, light to every twelve. A busy Blackheath Village or Sydenham kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Lewisham High Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Blackheath Village and Sydenham are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Sydenham and Deptford High Street run a canopy, filters and a fan and often carry a heavy grease load for their size. We clean and certify them the same way as a full restaurant system.
Yes. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Sydenham takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Lewisham has campus catering at Goldsmiths University, production kitchens at University Hospital Lewisham, and market and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Blackheath Village operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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