Extraction Cleaning · Caldicot
From the the town-centre pubs to the Newport Road cafes, Caldicot cooks over open flame - and a greased-up canopy, filter and fan pull badly, run hot and add fire risk. We strip and degrease the whole system, canopy to fan, and certify it fire-safe.
Tell us about the canopy, filters and ducting in your Caldicot kitchen and get a guide price straight away - no measuring, no site visit, no waiting.
Try the cost calculatorFrom the town-centre pubs to the Newport Road cafes, Caldicot runs its cooklines hard, and each one faces the same thing - grease building on the canopy service after service. The settings change; the grease does not.
One of 1,600 rated premises in the area, a Caldicot cookline packs grease onto its canopy, filters and fan day after day. When it sets, the hood stops pulling at the line, the kitchen goes hot and smoky, and the caked filters and fan become a fire risk over an open flame. We strip and degrease the lot so the airflow and the fire safety return.
A degreased extraction is not just a compliance tick - your chefs feel it on the line. Restored airflow pulls the heat, smoke and grease-laden air off the cookline instead of leaving it in the kitchen, so the space is cooler to work in and the cooking smells stay out of the dining room.
It is measured and evidenced to TR19 Grease, with the fan the tell: when a Caldicot kitchen goes hot and smoky, it is usually grease unbalancing the impeller, not the filters.
The standard on a commercial canopy. We strip, soak and scrape them back, and flag any that are warped or missing - the gap a warped filter leaves lets grease straight into the plenum.
Common on lighter lines and older canopies, and quick to clog solid. We clean what you run and advise where a baffle filter would serve a heavy frying line better.
On enclosed or recirculating systems. We service the stages, check the seals and tell you what needs replacing rather than cleaning.
Many cooklines carry a wet-chemical system built into the canopy. We degrease the filters, canopy and fan without disturbing the nozzles or detection - so you keep both defences.
Where a gas interlock ties the cookline to the extract, we work around it and leave it functioning, so the line cannot fire without the extraction running.
We check and clear accessible fire dampers in the run, so a damper that has to close in a fire is not seized solid with grease.
Typical jobs we handle, by sector and area - representative of the work we do, not named clients.
At a primary school in Caldicot, cooking hot lunches at volume through term, months of frying had packed the canopy and fan with grease and the draw had fallen away. We cleaned the filters, canopy and baffles, scraped the duct, and degreased the fan housing and impeller out of hours. The cookline drew properly again, certified with before-and-after photos.
At a residential home in Caldicot, cooking daily for its residents, the extract had lost its pull, with grease set hard on the baffles, the plenum and the fan. We degreased the whole system - filters, canopy, plenum, fan and the accessible duct across a quiet morning. The kitchen ran cool again; we left the certificate and photo record for the fire file.
We check the canopy, filters and fan, gauge the grease loading and how far the pull has dropped, and agree the scope.
The cookline and any fire-suppression system are protected and the area sheeted before work starts.
Filters, canopy, plenum and fan are degreased end to end - twice over where the grease has baked on hard.
You get a dated certificate, before-and-after photographs and a recommended cleaning interval.
It goes by how hard you cook. A heavy line fouls faster than a light one, so TR19 Grease sets the interval by daily cooking hours; we read your grease loading and set a next-due date instead of guessing.
The whole system - filters, canopy, plenum, fan housing and impeller, and the accessible duct. Grease on the fan is usually what has actually killed the airflow, so filters alone rarely fix a hot, smoky kitchen.
No. We degrease around the nozzles and detection of a wet-chemical system without disturbing them, so both the extraction and the suppression are left working.
Yes - the town centre and Newport Road, Caldicot Castle and country park, and the Severnside edge of town, and across the wider Monmouthshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closed days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work, so the kitchen is ready for the next service.
Caldicot gathers around its Norman castle and country park between Chepstow and Newport near the Severn crossing, a market town whose pubs and cafes feed the community. Left in place, that grease feeds flame and starves airflow. We work around service so the extraction is clean, certified and pulling properly before the next service.
We have stripped, degreased and certified commercial extraction to TR19 Grease since 2001, across South Wales and the UK. On a hard-frying line the job is the same every time: the whole system taken back, the fan balanced, and a certificate that satisfies your insurer and fire risk assessor.
Send us your cookline and frying hours and we will survey, strip, degrease and certify - across South Wales.
