Shaftesbury · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Shaftesbury restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury fries across the hilltop, from the High Street and Bell Street chip shops to the takeaways down Salisbury Street and off Angel Lane.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Bimport, Bleke Street and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the dozens of food premises rated in Shaftesbury, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
What the Bimport and Bleke 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 Shaftesbury 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 Bimport 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 Bleke Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Shaftesbury 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 Shaftesbury's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Shaftesbury 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 Bimport 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 Bimport 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 Bleke Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Shaftesbury
We are under Shaftesbury's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
An independent school canteen in Shaftesbury had a heavy grease layer over the canopy and first bend of the duct, a real fire risk above the chargrill. We degreased the filters and extract duct back to bare metal, cleaned the fan and reset the filters, restoring airflow over the range and clearing the system to the TR19 Grease standard. We left a full photo report and certificate.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Shaftesbury service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Bimport 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 Bleke Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Shaftesbury 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 Shaftesbury 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 Bimport or Bleke Street 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 a Bimport operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 Bimport 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. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Bleke Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Bimport and Bleke 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 - from Bimport, Bleke Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Dorset.
Local knowledge
Park Walk runs along the western edge of the hilltop, where the greensand escarpment falls away more than 700 feet and the view reaches across the Blackmore Vale into Somerset and Wiltshire. Height and open air define the town; a kitchen extract system has neither. Across Shaftesbury's fryers and ranges, grease-laden vapour rises into canopy and duct, and canopy-to-fan degreasing certified to TR19 Grease keeps the run clear, protects the fan and removes the fuel that turns a flare-up into a serious kitchen fire.
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