Marlborough · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Marlborough kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Marlborough
Wiltshire Council rates dozens of restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Marlborough eats out along the High Street and Kingsbury Street - Rick Stein's, the old coaching-inn kitchens at the Castle and Ball, and a run of cafes and delis. The catering kitchens at Marlborough College and St John's Marlborough work to the same standard, and we clean and certify them the same way.
A deep clean is what stands behind a good rating when the Marlborough inspector arrives. We clean well beyond a nightly close-down - the surfaces, the equipment inside and behind, and the structure, from a greased extract canopy over a High Street range to the grouting under a Silverless Street kitchen - to the standard an environmental health inspection actually scores.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer awards a Marlborough kitchen is built from three things on the day, and a deep clean moves two of them.
How food is prepped, cooked, cooled and stored on your line - your practice, but it stands on genuinely clean surfaces and equipment underneath it.
The state of the structure and equipment - the pillar a deep clean lifts directly, from a carbonised High Street range wall to the grouting in a Silverless Street kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Marlborough EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Top to bottom and into the equipment, across the whole range a Marlborough kitchen runs - not a wipe-down.
Cook lines stripped and degreased, fryers and ranges emptied and cleaned through, canopy and baffle filters cleared, stainless brought back to a shine, walls and ceilings washed off, cold rooms and fridges sanitised, and the baked grease behind the hot line that a closing wipe never reaches. From one Herd Street range to a market-town-scale production kitchen, we fit the work around service - overnight or on a rest day - and hand over a dated record of every job done.
On the ground in Marlborough
We are in Marlborough's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A traditional care home kitchen in Marlborough had grease and baked-on food debris built up behind the hot plates and under the counters, with grease on the wall cladding. We deep-cleaned throughout - all food-contact surfaces, the appliances inside and out, and the extract canopy. The kitchen passed its next hygiene inspection comfortably, with before-and-after images and a certificate.
When to book
Usually before the inspector, not after.
Before an FHRS re-inspection, after a rating that needs lifting off a 2 or 3, at a George Lane handover or a new Silverless Street opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Marlborough kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Wiltshire Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Marlborough kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Herd Street kitchen has to reopen the next day.
Surfaces, equipment and structure - deep, and behind the hot line where the grease hides.
A dated record of what was cleaned, for your file and the next Marlborough EHO visit.
Questions
Daily cleaning keeps surfaces usable between services. A deep clean reaches what that never does - behind and beneath fixed equipment, inside ovens, fryers and extraction canopies, and across walls, ceilings and floor junctions. It is the part of a Herd Street or Silverless Street kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
It targets exactly what the council's officers score on the physical side - the condition and cleanliness of structure and equipment, from a greased High Street extract to the grouting on a Silverless Street line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
Yes - ranges, ovens, fryers, griddles, extraction canopies, fridges and cold rooms, plus the structure around them. Marlborough kitchens span the full range, from a single Herd Street independent to a market-town-scale production line.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Silverless Street independent is usually a night, a market-town-scale production kitchen several. We scope it on the walk-round and work around your service so you lose no covers.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new George Lane opening, a change of operator or a Silverless Street lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to a George Lane landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Herd Street or Silverless Street site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
The Marlborough Mound in the college grounds was tied for centuries by legend to Merlin's grave; radiocarbon dating in 2011 finally placed it at around 2400 BC, a genuine prehistoric monument. Old claims get settled by evidence, and a kitchen is no different. We clean commercial kitchens across Marlborough to the standard an environmental health officer inspects against, so the score on the door reflects what a swab would actually find behind the equipment.
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