Solihull · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Solihull kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene rating.
Solihull
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council rates around 1,500 restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Solihull eats out across the affluent borough: the dining quarter of Touchwood, the town centre around Mell Square and Poplar Road, the Stratford Road corridor at Shirley, and the village dining of Knowle, Dorridge and Olton. Add the NEC, Birmingham Airport, Solihull College and Solihull Hospital, and you have thousands of kitchens on the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what a good rating stands on when the Solihull inspector calls. We go well past a nightly wipe-down - the surfaces, the equipment inside and behind, and the fabric of the room, from a grease-laden canopy over a Touchwood range to the grout under a Stratford Road kitchen - to the level an environmental health visit actually marks.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Rating an officer awards a Solihull 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 Touchwood range wall to the grouting in a Stratford Road kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence a Solihull EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Floor to ceiling and inside the equipment, across the range Solihull cooks on - not a surface wipe.
Cooking lines stripped and degreased, fryers and ranges cleaned out, the extract canopy and filters cleared, stainless polished, walls and ceilings washed down, fridges and cold rooms sanitised, and the carbonised grease behind the hot line that a nightly close-down never touches. From a single Poplar Road range to a showroom production kitchen, we work around your service - overnight or on a close day - and leave a dated record of exactly what was done.
On the ground in Solihull
We are in Solihull's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A private healthcare clinic kitchen in Solihull had fine dust settling over the high-level ventilation grids and food splash tracking down the tiled splashback grout. We ran targeted HEPA vacuums over the air registers, steam-cleaned the wall tiling and disinfected the prep tables, meeting the facility's infection-control standard. Every sanitising tool and chemical container was wiped with isopropyl before crossing the clean boundary.
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 an Olton handover or a new Stratford Road opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps a Solihull kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Solihull kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Poplar Road 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 Solihull 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 Poplar Road or Stratford Road kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
A schedule of the work done and before-and-after photographs, plus a record you can hand to an Olton landlord, an incoming operator or a council environmental health officer.
It targets exactly what the council's officers score on the physical side - the condition and cleanliness of structure and equipment, from a greased Touchwood extract to the grouting on a Stratford Road line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a rating down.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Touchwood line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Poplar Road or Stratford Road site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
It depends on the kitchen - a small Stratford Road independent is usually a night, a showroom 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 Olton opening, a change of operator or a Stratford Road lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
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