Bathgate · 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 Bathgate, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bathgate
Bathgate 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 Hopetoun Street to Livery Street and Boghall, 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - care-home kitchens, school and staff canteens, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bathgate 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 Hopetoun Street and Boghall, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Bathgate 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 Bathgate hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bathgate
We are in Bathgate's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-street veterinary practice in Bathgate had its branch supply ducts thick with atmospheric dust behind the grilles, leaving poor air movement across the main floor. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed the fan coil unit. The rooms felt fresher, the stale dusty smell gone, and the team were glad to have it sorted. The office manager kept us going with bacon rolls through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bathgate kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Hopetoun Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Bathgate insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Livery Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Bathgate 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 Boghall 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 Bathgate fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bathgate 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 a Bathgate 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 Hopetoun 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. To a Bathgate insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by West Lothian 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 Hopetoun Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Livery Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Hopetoun Street and Boghall where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from Hopetoun Street and Livery Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Bathgate and the wider West Lothian.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Bathgate run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Livery Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Hopetoun Street and Livery 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 Boghall 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 Hopetoun Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
The British Motor Corporation opened its truck and tractor plant at Bathgate in 1961, and by the 1970s it employed more than seven thousand people before the last vehicles rolled off and it closed in 1986 - the loss the Proclaimers fixed in a line when they sang that Bathgate was no more. Great sheds like that moved their air through miles of ductwork, and modern premises hide their dust the same way, inside sealed runs 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. Nothing is signed off until the ducting is proven clear along its length.
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