Lichfield · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Lichfield restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Lichfield
Lichfield fries across the cathedral city - the Bore Street and Bird Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Conduit Street and Tamworth Street kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Tamworth Street, Dam Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Lichfield rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Tamworth Street and Dam Street cooks work under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Done properly it pulls the way it was designed to, clearing heat and steam, holding a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, because a clean Lichfield fan is not fighting a greased one to move the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Tamworth Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
The canopy is stripped inside and out, the baffle filters cleaned or renewed, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - it is the fan that slips quietly as grease weighs its blades through a hard Dam Street service. All of it is taken to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as designed and your Lichfield fire risk assessment and insurer hold the record they expect.
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 Lichfield's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Lichfield 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 Tamworth Street 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 Tamworth Street 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 Dam Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Lichfield
We are under Lichfield's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A Three Spires centre food unit in Lichfield had grease on the extract fan letting cooking smells drift into the mall. We degreased the fan blades and housing, rebalanced the impeller and restored the pull, clearing the smells and returning the air quality. The centre's facilities team signed the fire-safety record.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Lichfield service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Tamworth Street 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 Dam Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Lichfield 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 Lichfield 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 Tamworth Street or Dam Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Extraction cleaning covers the canopy, filters and fan; where the concealed duct run behind them is also loaded - as it often is in a tight Tamworth Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Bore Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Lichfield has campus catering at the local college, catering at the Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, and centre and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Tamworth Street and Dam Street 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 - from Tamworth Street, Dam Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Staffordshire.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Dam Street and Bird 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.
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