Nottingham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Nottingham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Nottingham
Nottingham fries across the board - the takeaways of the Lenton and Dunkirk student strips, the food halls of Sneinton Market, and the Hockley cooklines run from open to close.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Hockley to Lenton and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Nottingham rates around 3,000 food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
What the Hockley and Lenton 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 Nottingham 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 Hockley 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 Lenton 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Nottingham 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 Hockley 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 Hockley 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 Lenton system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Nottingham
We are under Nottingham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A sports arena hospitality kitchen in Nottingham had sticky grease deposits through the extraction ducting from matchday high-volume catering. We scraped and degreased the ductwork, making sure every bend was cleared, and fitted the work into the gap between events. The system came back fully restored and ready for the next high-demand day.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Nottingham service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Hockley 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 Lenton takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Hockley or Lenton kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Hockley and Lenton 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 Lenton and Beeston 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.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Nottingham has campus catering at two universities, production kitchens at the QMC, and arena and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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 Lenton takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes - from Hockley, Lenton and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider East Midlands.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Hockley operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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