Canopy cleaning vs duct cleaning — what is included?
Kitchen managers often ask for “a canopy clean” when the real need is a wider extract clean. Knowing the difference helps you buy the right scope — and avoid thinking you are TR19-ready when you are not.
Canopy cleaning
Canopy cleaning focuses on the hood above the cooking line: internal surfaces, grease collection points, and usually the filters. It improves visible hygiene and capture at the pass.
Useful between full TR19 visits, or when the face and plenum are heavily greased but ducts were cleaned recently.
Ductwork cleaning
Ductwork cleaning addresses the grease path you cannot see from the pass — horizontal runs, bends, and vertical risers between canopy and fan. That is often where fire risk assessments and insurers pay attention.
A canopy wipe with dirty ducts left in place is not a full extract clean.
When you need both (TR19)
Most restaurants, takeaways, hotels, and park kitchens on the Lincolnshire coast need canopy and duct work on a TR19 programme, plus filters and fan as scoped. See TR19 kitchen extract cleaning and coverage from Skegness along the coast.
How to decide
Start with a kitchen extract survey. Cooking load, last clean date, access panels, and duct length decide canopy-only, duct focus, or a full system visit. Then book a TR19 clean with the scope written down.
Canopy = what you see. Duct = what insurers care about. TR19 usually means both, plus filters and fan.
