Slough · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Slough restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Slough
Slough fries hard - the South Asian cooklines of Farnham Road cook from open to close, and the High Street and Chalvey kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Farnham Road, Chalvey and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Slough rates around 950 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
The kit the Farnham Road and Chalvey 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 Slough 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 Farnham Road cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
The canopy is stripped inside and out, the baffle filters cleaned or renewed, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - it is the fan that slips quietly as grease weighs its blades through a hard Chalvey service. All of it is taken to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as designed and your Slough fire risk assessment and insurer hold the record they expect.
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 Slough's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Slough 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 Farnham Road 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 Farnham Road 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 Chalvey system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Slough
We are under Slough's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A business-district staff bistro in Slough had grease and dust gathered in the extraction plenum over the serving area. We deep-cleaned the plenum and sanitised the extraction registers, clearing the odour and the fire risk - done over the office weekend closure.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Slough service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Farnham Road 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 Chalvey takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Slough 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 Slough 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 Farnham Road or Chalvey kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Farnham Road and Chalvey 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. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Chalvey 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 Farnham Road cookline can count against your score.
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 Farnham Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Slough has staff canteens across the Slough Trading Estate, production kitchens at Wexham Park Hospital, and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Farnham Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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