Coatbridge · 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 Coatbridge, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Coatbridge
Coatbridge 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 Main Street to Bank Street and Langloan, 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 - hospital kitchens, college refectories, 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 Coatbridge insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Main Street and Langloan, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Coatbridge run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Coatbridge hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Coatbridge
We are in Coatbridge's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A sheltered-housing block in Coatbridge had a greasy film of food-waste residue coating the full drop of its communal refuse chute. We washed the chute down from the top with a rotary jet, then disinfected and deodorised the shared corridors. The chute came up sanitised and the ground-floor lobby was pleasant to use again, and the client booked us back in there and then; we timed the visit for the Christmas shutdown while the block was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Coatbridge kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Main Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Coatbridge insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Bank 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 Coatbridge 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 Langloan 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 Coatbridge fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Coatbridge 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 Coatbridge 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 Main 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Coatbridge insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. When North Lanarkshire Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the result an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Main Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Bank Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Main Street and Bank Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Coatbridge and the wider Lanarkshire.
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 Langloan conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Coatbridge run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Bank Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Main Street and Langloan where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Coatbridge offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lanarkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Main Street and Bank Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Summerlee Ironworks opened in 1836 and grew into one of the largest ironworks in Scotland, eight furnaces in blast until the fires went out for the last time in 1926, while the tubemakers Stewarts and Lloyds later ran the Calder Works in the town until it closed in 1986. Where those works once vented their dust and fume into open sheds, modern premises hide it inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. The old furnaces are gone, but the town still makes and moves air its systems have to keep clean. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Coatbridge, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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