Woolwich · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Woolwich restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Woolwich
Woolwich fries across the town - the Powis Street and Beresford Square cooklines cook from open to close, and the Woolwich New Road and Royal Arsenal kitchens run alongside.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around General Gordon Square, Plumstead Road and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With around 2,300 food premises rated across Woolwich, most are frying in a cramped space.
What the General Gordon Square and Plumstead Road 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 Woolwich 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 General Gordon Square 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 Plumstead Road 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 Woolwich 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 Woolwich's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Woolwich 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 General Gordon Square 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 General Gordon Square 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 Plumstead Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Woolwich
We are under Woolwich's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A charity-centre cafe in Woolwich had ductwork debris mixed with heavy aerosolised grease into a dangerous, uneven coating. We ran an industrial HEPA vacuum first to lift the loose debris, then a deep mechanical scrub to restore the duct walls, verifying the system safe for the long term. Site access and the programme were managed via the central facility team.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Woolwich service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard General Gordon Square 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 Plumstead Road takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Woolwich 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 Woolwich 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 General Gordon Square or Plumstead Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Plumstead Road and Hare 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. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Plumstead Road takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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 General Gordon Square kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from General Gordon Square, Plumstead Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Greater London.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Woolwich has production kitchens at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, event catering at the Woolwich Works, and riverside and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Powis Street cookline can count against your score.
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