Wigan · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Wigan restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Wigan
Wigan fries across the borough - the King Street and pie-shop cooklines cook from open to close, and the Standishgate and Wallgate kitchens run alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Mesnes Street to Galleries and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Wigan rates thousands of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
What the Mesnes Street and Galleries cooks labour under - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is exactly what we degrease. Cleaned right it draws as it was meant to, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate and running cooler, since a clean Wigan fan no longer battles a greased one to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Mesnes Street 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 Galleries 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 Wigan 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 Wigan's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Wigan 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 Mesnes 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 Mesnes 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 Galleries system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Wigan
We are under Wigan's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A department-store cafe in Wigan had heavy grease built up in the main extract plenum, throwing the pressure balance out. We degreased and sanitised the plenum unit through, getting the extraction flow back to full and the system back to a certified standard. A cleaning certificate was issued to the store management.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Wigan service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Mesnes Street cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Galleries takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Wigan 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 Wigan 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 Mesnes Street or Galleries kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a King Street cookline can count against your score.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Mesnes Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Galleries and Standishgate 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. Beyond restaurants, Wigan has campus catering at University Centre Wigan and Leigh College, production kitchens at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Mesnes Street and Galleries 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 Mesnes Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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