Clydebank · 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 Clydebank, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Clydebank
Clydebank 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 Clydebank work out of tight, mixed premises - Kilbowie Road, Chalmers Street, Dalmuir - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Clydebank 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 Clydebank 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 Kilbowie Road and Dalmuir, 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 Clydebank 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 Clydebank hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Clydebank
We are in Clydebank's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Building dust had settled into the branch ducts feeding the occupied areas of a much-loved office suite in Clydebank, leaving the air stale and warm. We worked through the supply ducting with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the grilles. Airflow returned to spec, the system was left visibly clean, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. We left before-and-after photos and a hygiene certificate for the audit file.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Clydebank 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 Kilbowie Road line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Clydebank 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 Chalmers Street 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 Clydebank 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 Dalmuir 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 Clydebank fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Clydebank 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 Clydebank 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 Kilbowie Road 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 live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Clydebank insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from West Dunbartonshire 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 Kilbowie Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Chalmers Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Clydebank offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Dunbartonshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Clydebank run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Chalmers Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Kilbowie Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Kilbowie Road and Chalmers Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Clydebank and the wider West Dunbartonshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Kilbowie Road and Chalmers 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 Dalmuir conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
The Singer Manufacturing Company opened its Kilbowie works in 1884, and at its height it was the largest sewing-machine factory in the world, nearly seven thousand workers under a 200-foot clock tower turning out thousands of machines a week. The needle and cabinet dust of that age has given way to grease and debris hidden inside sealed ductwork, building 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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