Oxford · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Oxford restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Oxford
Oxford fries across the city - the diverse cooklines of Cowley Road cook from open to close, and the Jericho and Gloucester Green kitchens run alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Cowley Road to Gloucester Green and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Oxford rates around 1,500 food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
What the Cowley Road and Gloucester Green 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 Oxford 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 Cowley Road 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 Gloucester Green service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Oxford 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 Oxford's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Oxford 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 Cowley 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 Cowley 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 Gloucester Green system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Oxford
We are under Oxford's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A university lecture-theatre canteen in Oxford had compacted carbonised fat cutting the exhaust diameter right down. We ran high-pressure steam with a biodegradable pre-soak and brought the duct back to bare metal, with the airflow recovered - done out of hours to avoid downtime.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Oxford service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Cowley Road 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 Gloucester Green takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Oxford 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 Oxford 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 Cowley Road or Gloucester Green kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Cowley Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Cowley Road cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Oxford has campus catering at two universities, production kitchens at the John Radcliffe, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Cowley Road and Gloucester Green are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Cowley 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 Gloucester Green takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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