Alloa · 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 Alloa, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Alloa
Alloa 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.
From Mar Street to Drysdale Street and Sauchie, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Alloa offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hotel and pub kitchens, college refectories, care-home 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 Alloa insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Mar Street and Sauchie, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Alloa run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Alloa hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Alloa
We are in Alloa's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The horizontal duct run at a traditional Alloa fish and chip shop was lined with grease and carbon, choking the pull over the cook line. We fitted inspection hatches along the run, hand-scraped the carbon out and degreased through to the fan. With the run clear the system met TR19, documented with a full set of images and a completion certificate. We also flagged a worn part to the owner for their maintenance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Alloa kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Mar Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Alloa insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Drysdale Street kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Alloa 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 Sauchie 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 Alloa fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Alloa 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 Alloa 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 Mar 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 Alloa 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. A food hygiene visit from Clackmannanshire Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the result an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Mar Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Drysdale Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Mar Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Mar Street and Drysdale Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Alloa and the wider Clackmannanshire.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Alloa run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Drysdale Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Sauchie 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 Mar Street and Sauchie where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Sauchie conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
John Paton set up a small yarn-spinning business in Alloa early in the nineteenth century, and it grew into the vast Kilncraigs Mill, which as Patons and Baldwins turned out knitting wool sold the world over, its air once thick with wool fibre and dust. The mill is now Clackmannanshire Council's headquarters, but modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, 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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