Middlesbrough · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Middlesbrough restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough fries across the town - the Baker Street and Bedford Street cooklines, the Linthorpe Road kitchens, and the Parliament Road takeaways cook from open to close.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Linthorpe Road, Parliament Road and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With around 1,120 food premises rated across Middlesbrough, most are frying in a cramped space.
We degrease the part of the system the Linthorpe Road and Parliament Road 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 Middlesbrough 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 Linthorpe Road 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 Parliament Road 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 Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Middlesbrough 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 Linthorpe Road 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 Linthorpe Road 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 Parliament Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Middlesbrough
We are under Middlesbrough's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A heavy manufacturing plant mess hall in Middlesbrough had metallic grinding dust combining with aerosolised oils into a fire-prone layer in the extract. We ran an industrial HEPA-vacuum extraction and a deep chemical degrease to decontaminate it and take the hazard out, with a full photo audit for site management.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Middlesbrough service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Linthorpe Road 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 Parliament Road takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough 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 Linthorpe Road or Parliament Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Linthorpe Road, Parliament Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Teesside.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Middlesbrough has campus catering at Teesside University, production kitchens at the James Cook, 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 Linthorpe Road cookline can count against your score.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Parliament Road and Albert Road 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 Linthorpe Road 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 Parliament Road takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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