Ayr · 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 Ayr, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ayr
Ayr 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 High Street to Sandgate and Newton-on-Ayr, 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 Ayr 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 Ayr insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off High Street and Newton-on-Ayr, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Ayr run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Ayr hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ayr
We are in Ayr's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A local church hall in Ayr had atmospheric dust gathered in the branch ducts feeding its main rooms, leaving the air stale and warm. We cleaned the dry ventilation runs with air whips under negative pressure and renewed the supply filters. Indoor air quality lifted across the rooms and the client was genuinely pleased with the result, and we worked the early mornings before the hall filled up to keep things running.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ayr kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a High Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or an Ayr insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Sandgate kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Ayr 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 Newton-on-Ayr 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 Ayr fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ayr 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 Ayr 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 High 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 Ayr 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. South Ayrshire Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the result an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Sandgate cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Ayr offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Ayrshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Sandgate 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 Newton-on-Ayr conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 High Street and Newton-on-Ayr where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Newton-on-Ayr 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.
Yes - from High Street and Sandgate kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ayr and the wider Ayrshire.
Local knowledge
In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ayr's wool and linen trades flourished, and a shoemaking industry grew up beside them, filling the town's workshops with fibre and dust. 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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