Stevenage · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Stevenage restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Stevenage
Stevenage fries across the new town - the Queensway and Old Town cooklines cook from open to close, and the Forum and Roaring Meg kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Roaring Meg, Bedwell and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the around 680 food premises rated in Stevenage, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
We degrease exactly what the Roaring Meg and Bedwell 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 Stevenage 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 Roaring Meg 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 Bedwell 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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Stevenage 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 Roaring Meg 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 Roaring Meg 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 Bedwell system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Stevenage
We are under Stevenage's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A retail food-prep kitchen in Stevenage had excessive grease inside the fan housing and along the main extraction line - a clear combustion risk. We ran a full decontamination with specialist degreasing agents and a steam sanitisation, restoring the system to the fire-safety standard, and replaced three mesh filters while we were in.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Stevenage service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Roaring Meg 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 Bedwell takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Stevenage 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 Stevenage 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 Roaring Meg or Bedwell kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Bedwell 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 Queensway cookline can count against your score.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Bedwell and Old Town 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. Most venues we clean around Roaring Meg and Bedwell are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours 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 Roaring Meg kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from Roaring Meg, Bedwell and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Hertfordshire.
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