Littlehampton · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Littlehampton restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Littlehampton
Littlehampton fries hard along Surrey Street, Wick Street and the Beach Road seafront, where fish-and-chip shops, kebab houses, Chinese takeaways and beach cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Wick Street, East Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Littlehampton rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Wick Street and East 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 Littlehampton 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 Wick Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
Canopy inside and out, baffle filters cleaned or replaced, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - that last part loses performance quietly as grease builds on the blades through a hard East Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Littlehampton fire risk assessment and insurer have the paperwork 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 Littlehampton's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Littlehampton 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 Wick 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 Wick 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 an East Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Littlehampton
We are under Littlehampton's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
An established golf club in Littlehampton had baked-on grease over the filters and extract duct, well past a safe level above the frying range. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and fan housing back and degreased the accessible duct to the fan. The system was cleaned to TR19 standard and drawing properly once more, with full documentation for their records. Staff were setting up and happily worked around us.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Littlehampton service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Wick Street cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the East Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Littlehampton 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 Littlehampton 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 Wick Street or East 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 Wick Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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 East Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Wick Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Wick Street and East 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. The takeaways and grill houses around East Street and Surrey 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.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Local knowledge
Thomas Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe, its rusted-steel shell opened on the Littlehampton seafront in 2007, sits among the fish-and-chip shops and amusement arcades of a classic English seaside resort at the mouth of the Arun. Fried food is the town's trade by the water, and busy kitchens coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place it feeds flame and starves airflow, so we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard.
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