Sandhurst · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Sandhurst restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Sandhurst
Sandhurst fries hard along Owlsmoor and Longdown Road and up Yorktown Road, where fish bars, kebab houses and pizza shops run their extraction flat out through every service.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Owlsmoor, Longdown Road and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With hundreds of food premises rated across Sandhurst, most are frying in a cramped space.
What the Owlsmoor and Longdown Road 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 Sandhurst 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 Owlsmoor 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 Longdown Road service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Sandhurst 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 Sandhurst's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Sandhurst 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 Owlsmoor 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 Owlsmoor 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 Longdown Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Sandhurst
We are under Sandhurst's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A local pizzeria in Sandhurst had the canopy and first bend of its duct caked in grease from steady work on the frying range. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the filters and extract duct and degreased the accessible duct through to the fan. The canopy and duct came up clean and safe and airflow over the range was restored. We left a certificate for the file and fitted the visit around opening so customers weren't disturbed.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Sandhurst service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Owlsmoor 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 Longdown Road takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Sandhurst 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 Sandhurst 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 Owlsmoor or Longdown Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Owlsmoor and Longdown Road 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, Sandhurst has the academy, pub and town-centre kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality 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 Owlsmoor kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence an Owlsmoor operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes - from Owlsmoor, Longdown Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Berkshire.
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 Longdown Road takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Local knowledge
The Royal Military Academy has fed and trained Army officers at Sandhurst for more than two centuries, and its kitchens still turn out everything from mass cadet catering to formal dinners in the Old College. Volume kitchens like those, and the fish bars and takeaways along Yorktown Road, coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place it 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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