Stoke-on-Trent · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Stoke-on-Trent restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent fries across its six towns - the Hanley and Cultural Quarter cooklines, and the takeaway strips of Longton, Burslem and Fenton cook from open to close.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Hanley, Longton and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Stoke-on-Trent rates around 2,200 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
The kit the Hanley and Longton 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Hanley 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 Longton 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Stoke-on-Trent 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 Hanley 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 Hanley 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 Longton system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Stoke-on-Trent
We are under Stoke-on-Trent's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A pottery-centre cafe in Stoke-on-Trent had fine ceramic dust mixing with kitchen vapour in the extraction ducts. We HEPA-vacuumed the dust and degreased the duct surfaces, handling the fine dust carefully throughout. The system came back decontaminated and pulling properly.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Stoke-on-Trent service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Hanley 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 Longton takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Hanley or Longton 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 Hanley operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 Longton takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes - from Hanley, Longton and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Staffordshire.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Hanley cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Hanley and Longton 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 Hanley kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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