Sevenoaks · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Sevenoaks restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks fries hard along St John's Hill, London Road and up around Bat and Ball, where chip shops, takeaways and cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Bank Street, Bat and Ball 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 Sevenoaks, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
We degrease exactly what the Bank Street and Bat and Ball 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 Sevenoaks 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 Bank Street 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 Bat and Ball service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Sevenoaks 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 Bank Street 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 Bank Street 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 Bat and Ball system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Sevenoaks
We are under Sevenoaks's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A popular burger bar in Sevenoaks had a heavy grease layer across the canopy, filters and plenum, a real fire risk sitting over the frying range. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the plenum and filters back and degreased the accessible duct through to the fan. The system was left clean and fire-safe with the fan pulling freely again, backed by a report and photos for their file. We worked the early mornings before customers arrived so the place kept running.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Sevenoaks service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Bank Street 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 Bat and Ball takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks 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 Bank Street or Bat and Ball kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Bank Street, Bat and Ball and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Bat and Ball and London Road 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.
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 Bank Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Bank Street and Bat and Ball 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, Sevenoaks has the school, care-home and town-centre kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Local knowledge
Knole, the great house that gives the town its skyline, has been home to the Sackville family since Queen Elizabeth I granted it to Thomas Sackville in 1566, and its thousand-acre deer park and calendar house are now cared for by the National Trust. It was here that Vita Sackville-West grew up, the model for Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The town trades on food and hospitality now, and busy kitchens 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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