Kitchen extract cleaning in Norwich
Norwich packs its restaurants into a compact medieval centre. The Lanes, between St Benedicts Street, Pottergate and Lower Goat Lane, hold most of the city's independents, while Tombland and Elm Hill trade on cathedral-quarter footfall and Norwich Market's stalls have fed the city for centuries. Prince of Wales Road is the late-night strip, its bars and takeaways running until the small hours, and Riverside beside the station holds the chain restaurants, cinema and hotels. Magdalen Street and Dereham Road carry the takeaways and grill houses serving the north and west of the city, and the Norwich Research Park, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the University of East Anglia each run catering on an industrial scale.
The city's kitchens split neatly across the TR19 bands. A Prince of Wales Road takeaway frying until three in the morning is heavy use and should be cleaned quarterly; a Lanes bistro serving lunch and dinner sits in the moderate band at six months; a museum cafe or parish hall kitchen may need a clean only every twelve months. Norwich has a large stock of older buildings with ductwork improvised through timber-framed upper floors, which is where grease fires do most damage. We arrange canopy cleaning and full TR19 system cleans across the city and the Norfolk towns around it.
Compliance in Norwich
Norwich City Council's environmental health officers inspect the city's food premises and will ask to see extract-cleaning evidence when a canopy looks neglected, while Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service covers fire safety enforcement and has a long-standing interest in the timber-framed buildings around Elm Hill and the Lanes. Insurers underwriting kitchens in those buildings tend to write the TR19 interval into the policy as a condition, and a loss adjuster called out after a duct fire will ask for the certificate before anything else is discussed. The summer coast trade and the December party season both stretch cooking hours in Norwich, so an interval set in a quiet January may be too generous by August.
How it works for a Norwich kitchen
Give us the address and a description of the cooking and we will find a Norfolk-based contractor to survey and quote, usually inside a working day. Because so much of the city trades late, the specialist we assign will typically start after closing and have the fan back on before breakfast. You receive a TR19 certificate with photographic evidence of the canopy, plenum, ductwork and fan, and we contact you again before the next clean is due. Request a Norwich quote.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around Norwich
Attleborough · Beccles · Bradwell · Dereham · Diss · Gorleston · Great Yarmouth · Lowestoft · North Walsham · Taverham · Thetford · Watton · Wymondham
Nearby: Great Yarmouth · Wymondham · Dereham · North Walsham · Cromer · Thetford · Diss · Attleborough — all covered from Norwich. Other cities in East of England: Cambridge · Ipswich · Peterborough · Luton · Chelmsford · Colchester · Watford
Frequently asked questions
Do your contractors travel to the Norfolk coast, or is it just Norwich?
They cover the whole county. Seaside kitchens in Cromer, Sheringham, Wells and Great Yarmouth rely on a short, intense season and are usually cleaned in spring before the crowds arrive and again in autumn once they leave. Tell us where you are and when you open and we will match the visit to your calendar rather than the other way round.
Our pub in the Lanes has a duct running through a listed building. Is that a problem?
It is common in Norwich and the contractor will have dealt with it before. Access panels can normally be fitted without disturbing historic fabric, and where a section cannot be reached the report will say so, which is what an insurer needs to see. Old buildings raise the stakes rather than the difficulty, so the clean matters more, not less. See our pubs and bars page.
How often should a Prince of Wales Road takeaway have its extract cleaned?
A kitchen frying through the evening and into the early hours, six or seven days a week, falls into the heavy-use band under TR19, which means every three months. The first metre of duct behind a fryer canopy collects grease faster than anywhere else in the system, and quarterly cleaning is the only way to stay inside the thickness limit that keeps the certificate valid.