Portsmouth · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Portsmouth restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Portsmouth
Portsmouth fries hard - the Albert Road and Palmerston Road cooklines of Southsea, the Guildhall Walk strip, and the seafront takeaways cook from open to close.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Albert Road, Guildhall Walk and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With around 1,830 food premises rated across Portsmouth, most are frying in a cramped space.
We degrease exactly what the Albert Road and Guildhall Walk 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 Portsmouth 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 Albert 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 Guildhall Walk 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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Portsmouth 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 Albert 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 an Albert 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 Guildhall Walk system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Portsmouth
We are under Portsmouth's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A maritime college galley in Portsmouth had coastal moisture bringing surface rust and grease deposits into the extract fans. We degreased the fans and treated the metal with a rust-inhibiting coating, keeping to marine-safe cleaning agents throughout. The system came back sanitised and protected against the sea air.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Portsmouth service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Albert Road cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Guildhall Walk takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth 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 Albert Road or Guildhall Walk 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 an Albert Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 Guildhall Walk takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over an Albert Road cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Albert Road and Guildhall Walk 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 - from Albert Road, Guildhall Walk and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Hampshire.
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 Albert Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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