Lincoln · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Lincoln restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Lincoln
Lincoln fries across the city - the High Street and Brayford Waterfront cooklines cook from open to close, and the Bailgate and Sincil Street kitchens run alongside.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Cornhill Quarter, Brayford Waterfront and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With around 1,100 food premises rated across Lincoln, most are frying in a cramped space.
What the Cornhill Quarter and Brayford Waterfront 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 Lincoln 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 Cornhill Quarter cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard Brayford Waterfront service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Lincoln fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
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 Lincoln's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Lincoln 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 Cornhill Quarter 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 Cornhill Quarter 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 Brayford Waterfront system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Lincoln
We are under Lincoln's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A historic inn in the cathedral quarter of Lincoln had a restricted chimney flue blocked with dense, old carbonised soot and grease. We ran precision brushing with a solvent soak to lift the carbon deposits, restoring the flue and certifying it safe, with a heritage-sensitive approach throughout the listed building.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Lincoln service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Cornhill Quarter cookline faster, so the kitchen runs cooler and the fan draws less to move the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem at once. Frequency tracks how hard you cook - the Brayford Waterfront takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Cornhill Quarter or Brayford Waterfront kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Brayford Waterfront takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Bailgate cookline can count against your score.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Cornhill Quarter operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Brayford Waterfront and Steep Hill 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.
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 Cornhill Quarter kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Lincoln has campus catering at the University of Lincoln, production kitchens at Lincoln County Hospital, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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