Aberdeen · TR19 Grease
We clean the full commercial duct run - grease, dry and laundry ductwork, canopy to roof fan - for kitchens, offices and industrial sites across Aberdeen, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen rates hundreds of food premises, and behind a large share sits an extract duct a canopy clean never reaches - plus the dry ductwork and air-handling that keep its offices and public buildings running.
Kitchens across Aberdeen work out of tight, mixed premises - Union Street, Belmont Street, Castlegate - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Aberdeen schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the University of Aberdeen halls, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, offshore-supply-base canteens, and the hotel kitchens of the city centre - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Aberdeen insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Union Street and Castlegate, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Aberdeen run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth record.
By system
The fire risk. Fried-food extract coats duct walls in combustible grease; cleaned canopy to fan and certified to TR19 Grease.
Supply and general extract in offices and public buildings, carrying dust and debris that throttles airflow and loads the air-handling unit; cleaned to TR19.
The hidden one. Tumble-dryer ducting packs with lint - highly combustible - in Aberdeen hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Aberdeen
We are in Aberdeen's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A secondary school hall in Aberdeen had fine dust and debris built up across its air supply ducting and supply grilles. We ran rotary brushes and a negative-air machine through the branch runs, then replaced the supply filters. Indoor air quality improved noticeably across the hall, with the supply ducting left clean and drawing properly again.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Aberdeen kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Union Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or an Aberdeen insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Belmont Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Aberdeen run, find the access gaps in the concealed sections, agree scope and frequency.
Fit inspection hatches where the run is sealed - common in the older Castlegate conversions - and protect the kitchen.
Canopy to roof fan, down to bare metal, with before-and-after grease-depth evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate, grease-depth record and next-due date for your Aberdeen fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Aberdeen operator to keep ductwork clean, and they reinforce one another.
Fire safety law. Under the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006, the duty-holder for an Aberdeen premises must assess and manage fire risk. A grease-laden duct is one of the most serious risks in any catering building, because a flare-up on a Union Street cookline can travel the ductwork and spread fire through concealed voids. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the HSE reinforce the same duty of care.
Insurance. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Aberdeen insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Aberdeen City Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the result an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
It is set by cooking hours under TR19 Grease - roughly every three months for heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day, every six for moderate, every twelve for light. A hard-frying Union Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Belmont Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Aberdeen run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Belmont Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Union Street and Belmont Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
We fit compliant access panels where the ductwork has none, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified - common in the older Castlegate conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Union Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
The full run, canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan - the hidden sections a canopy-only clean leaves loaded, which matters in the tight stock around Union Street and Castlegate where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from Union Street and Belmont Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Aberdeen and the wider Aberdeen.
Local knowledge
Marischal College, completed in 1906, is the second-largest granite building in the world after the Escorial near Madrid, its pinnacled frontage carved from Rubislaw and Kemnay stone. Grand buildings like it run modern kitchens and workshops, and the ductwork above them carries grease and dust; left uncleaned it feeds fire and chokes airflow. Surveyed, brushed and access-hatched runs are what keep extraction moving and the insurers satisfied.
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