Airdrie · 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 Airdrie, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Airdrie
Airdrie 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.
Right across Airdrie, from Graham Street through Stirling Street to Coatdyke, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Airdrie offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hospital kitchens, college refectories, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Airdrie insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Graham Street and Coatdyke, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Airdrie run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Airdrie hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Airdrie
We are in Airdrie's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A local pub kitchen in Airdrie had a firm layer of grease built up through the extract ductwork behind its hot plates. We scraped and degreased the run back to metal and cleaned down the cook line while we were in. The ductwork came up to bare metal and passed TR19, backed by before-and-after images and a certificate, and we timed the job for the Christmas shutdown while the place was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Airdrie kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Graham Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or an Airdrie insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Stirling 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 Airdrie 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 Coatdyke 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 Airdrie fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Airdrie 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 Airdrie 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 Graham 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. Your Airdrie insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by North Lanarkshire 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 Graham Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Stirling Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Airdrie run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Stirling Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Graham Street and Stirling Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Airdrie and the wider Lanarkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Graham Street and Stirling Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Graham Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Coatdyke or city-centre riser is where grease throws off the blades and the run ends - we degrease it and its housing, because a loaded fan is what finally stops a system pulling.
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 Graham Street and Coatdyke where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
The Airdrie Weavers Society was founded in 1781, and flax grown on sixteen surrounding farms fed a hand-loom trade that clothed a burgh of more than two thousand people by the turn of the nineteenth century. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead of open weaving lofts, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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