Maidstone · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Maidstone restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Maidstone
Maidstone fries across the county town - the Week Street and Lockmeadow cooklines cook from open to close, and the Gabriels Hill and High Street kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Lockmeadow, High Street and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the around 1,400 food premises rated in Maidstone, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
We degrease exactly what the Lockmeadow and High Street cooks stand under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Cleaned properly the system draws as designed, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, since a clean Maidstone fan is not straining against grease to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Lockmeadow 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 High Street 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 Maidstone 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 Maidstone's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Maidstone 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 Lockmeadow 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 Lockmeadow 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 High Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Maidstone
We are under Maidstone's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A market-town bistro in Maidstone had heavy tacky grease loading the extract fan - the motor bearings were under strain and the whole run was audibly vibrating. We degreased the moving components by hand and flushed the internal duct through. The noise dropped by about 40 percent and the airflow came back to where it should be, with a documented service report left for the management.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Maidstone service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Lockmeadow cookline faster, so the kitchen sits cooler and the fan draws less to shift the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem all at once. How often it is needed follows how hard you cook - the High Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Maidstone 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 Maidstone 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 Lockmeadow or High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Lockmeadow, High Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Lockmeadow operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 Lockmeadow kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Maidstone has campus catering at MidKent College, production kitchens at Maidstone Hospital, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Week Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around High Street and Earl 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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