Wells · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Wells restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Wells
The city fries from Sadler Street to the Market Place and along the High Street, and every one of those canopies moves hot grease-laden air that has to go somewhere.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Chamberlain Street, St Cuthbert Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Wells rates dozens of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Chamberlain Street and St Cuthbert Street cooks work under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Done properly it pulls the way it was designed to, clearing heat and steam, holding a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, because a clean Wells fan is not fighting 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 Chamberlain Street 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 St Cuthbert Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Wells 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 Wells's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Wells 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 Chamberlain Street 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 Chamberlain Street 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 St Cuthbert Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Wells
We are under Wells's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A kebab shop in Wells had thick grease through the filters and extract duct, cutting the pull over the pizza oven. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and fan housing back and degreased the accessible duct to the fan, leaving the extract clean and fire-safe with noticeably stronger extraction. We left a certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Wells service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Chamberlain Street cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the St Cuthbert Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Wells 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 Wells 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 Chamberlain Street or St Cuthbert Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Chamberlain Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from Chamberlain Street, St Cuthbert Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Somerset.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around St Cuthbert Street and Sadler 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. Most venues we clean around Chamberlain Street and St Cuthbert 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.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Chamberlain Street 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 St Cuthbert Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Local knowledge
Wells Cathedral's astronomical clock, dating from around 1390, is one of the oldest working clock mechanisms in the world, its jousting knights turning every quarter-hour beneath the scissor arches added in 1338. Old mechanisms keep running because they are cleaned and maintained. Kitchen extraction is no different: canopy, filters, fan and the full duct run all load with grease, and a system left uncleaned will not pull. We service the whole extraction path and certify grease removal end to end.
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