Reading · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Reading restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Reading
Reading fries across the board - the diverse cooklines of Oxford Road, the Oracle Riverside kitchens, and the Friar Street takeaways cook from open to close.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Oxford Road, Friar Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Reading rates around 1,450 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
What the Oxford Road and Friar Street 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 Reading 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 Oxford Road cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Friar Street service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Reading fire risk assessment and insurer have the record 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 Reading's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Reading 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 Oxford 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 Oxford 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 Friar Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Reading
We are under Reading's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A riverside bistro in Reading had thick carbonised grease built up on the vertical extraction stack. We used high-pressure steam and scraping tools to lift the carbon off, and it came back clear and passed its TR19 inspection. We arranged access through the facilities team so it never touched service.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Reading service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Oxford Road cookline faster, so the kitchen runs cooler and the fan draws less to move the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem at once. Frequency tracks how hard you cook - the Friar Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Reading 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 Reading 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 Oxford Road or Friar Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Oxford Road, Friar Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Berkshire.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Friar Street and Broad 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.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Oxford Road and Friar Street 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. Beyond restaurants, Reading has campus catering at the university, production kitchens at the Royal Berkshire, 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 an Oxford Road cookline can count against your score.
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 Oxford Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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