Reigate · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Reigate restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Reigate
Reigate fries hard along Bell Street and West Street, where the brasseries, takeaways and cafes at the heart of town run their extraction flat out through every service, with the parades at Woodhatch and Meadvale busy behind them.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Woodhatch, Meadvale and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the hundreds of food premises rated in Reigate, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
We degrease the part of the system the Woodhatch and Meadvale 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 Reigate 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 Woodhatch 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 Meadvale service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Reigate 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 Reigate's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Reigate 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 Woodhatch 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 Woodhatch 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 Meadvale system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Reigate
We are under Reigate's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A privately owned burger bar in Reigate carried a heavy grease load on the plenum and filters from its pizza oven. We soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and fan housing and washed the duct through to the fan. Airflow over the range was restored and the extract left fire-safe, backed by a full set of photographs and a certificate. The neighbouring takeaway asked us for a quote after seeing the results.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Reigate service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Woodhatch 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 Meadvale takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Reigate 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 Reigate 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 Woodhatch or Meadvale kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Woodhatch 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 Meadvale 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 a Bell Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes - from Woodhatch, Meadvale and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Surrey.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Woodhatch operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Woodhatch and Meadvale are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
The Reigate Tunnel and the Barons' Cave draw visitors down under the castle on the open days when the caves are lit, part of a heritage the town has traded on for two centuries. Reigate turns on food now more than legend, and its busy Bell Street kitchens coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place that grease feeds flame and starves airflow. So we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard.
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