Sittingbourne · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Sittingbourne restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne fries across the town - the High Street and West Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the East Street and Milton Regis kitchens run alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Milton Regis to Church Street and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Sittingbourne rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
The kit the Milton Regis and Church Street cooks work beneath - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is what we degrease. Done right it pulls the way it should, clearing heat and steam, backed by a current TR19 Grease certificate, and it runs cooler too, because a clean Sittingbourne fan is not working against 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 Milton Regis cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard Church Street service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Sittingbourne fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
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 Sittingbourne's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Sittingbourne 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 Milton Regis 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 Milton Regis 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 Church Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Sittingbourne
We are under Sittingbourne's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A Forum centre food unit in Sittingbourne had grease on the extract fan letting cooking smells drift into the mall. We degreased the fan blades and housing, rebalanced the impeller and restored the pull, clearing the smells and returning the air quality. The centre's facilities team signed the fire-safety record.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Sittingbourne service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Milton Regis 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 Church Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Sittingbourne 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 Sittingbourne 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 Milton Regis or Church Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Church Street and West 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 - from Milton Regis, Church Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Milton Regis operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Milton Regis and Church 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.
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 Church Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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