Extraction Cleaning · Dolgellau
From the the Eldon Square inns to the town-centre cafes, Dolgellau 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 Dolgellau kitchen and get a guide price straight away - no measuring, no site visit, no waiting.
Try the cost calculatorFrom the Eldon Square inns to the town-centre cafes, Dolgellau 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.
In a food economy of 2,112 rated premises, a Dolgellau line loads canopy, filters and fan steadily until the grease sets - and then the hood stops capturing, the kitchen turns hot and smoky, and the fan sits as a fire risk over a live flame. We degrease the whole system so draw and fire safety come back together.
Swapping filters treats the symptom; grease in the canopy, plenum and fan is what actually strangles the airflow. Clean the lot together and the cookline captures again, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fire risk over a live line comes down with it.
It is measured and evidenced to TR19 Grease, with the fan the tell: when a Dolgellau 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 pub in Dolgellau, serving food through the week, grease had caked the filters, canopy and fan until the hood stopped capturing at the line. We cleared the filters and canopy, scraped back the plenum and accessible run, and degreased the impeller overnight. Airflow and fire safety restored, we left a report and before-and-after photographs.
At a residential home in Dolgellau, cooking daily for its residents, a heavy line had loaded the canopy and fan housing and the extraction had gone weak. We cleaned the filters, canopy and baffles, scraped the duct, and degreased the fan housing and impeller on a closed day. The draw returned, and we certified it with a photo record for the file.
We check the canopy, filters and fan, note the airflow and grease loading, and agree scope around your service.
The cookline and any fire-suppression system are protected before work starts, and the area sheeted.
Filters, canopy, plenum and extract fan degreased - a two-stage clean where the grease is baked on.
You get a dated certificate, before-and-after photographs and a recommended cleaning interval.
By cooking volume. A heavy line needs cleaning more often than a light one - TR19 Grease sets the interval by daily cooking hours, and we assess your grease loading and set a next-due date rather than 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 - Eldon Square and the dark-stone town centre, the Mawddach crossing, and the Cadair Idris edge of town, and across the wider Gwynedd.
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.
Dolgellau gathers its dark dolerite-stone buildings around Eldon Square below Cadair Idris, a Snowdonia market town whose coaching inns, coffee roasters and cafes feed the walkers and the Mawddach trail. 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 Mid 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 Mid Wales.
