Dundee · 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 Dundee, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Dundee
Dundee 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 Nethergate to Reform Street and Marketgait, 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 - busy chip shops, hotel kitchens, hospital and university catering halls and the estate staff canteens - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Dundee 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 Nethergate and Marketgait, 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 Dundee 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 Dundee hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Dundee
We are in Dundee's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A holiday-park laundry block in Dundee had compacted fine textile lint lining the full length of its exhaust ductwork, leaving the external wall flap barely moving. We cleared the laundry exhaust run of lint, checked the run for damage and tested the airflow at the external wall flap. The system ran cooler and cleaner once the lint was removed, and the flap opened freely again.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Dundee kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Nethergate cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Dundee insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Reform 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 Dundee 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 Marketgait 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 Dundee fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Dundee 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 Dundee 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 Nethergate 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 Dundee 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. Dundee City 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 Nethergate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Reform Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Marketgait 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 Nethergate and Reform Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Dundee and the wider Dundee.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Nethergate operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Dundee run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Reform Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Dundee offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Dundee hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Nethergate and Reform Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
V and A Dundee opened on the waterfront in 2018 as the first design museum in Scotland, Kengo Kuma's cliff-like building drawing more than a million visitors in its first year. Behind every gallery cafe and city-centre kitchen runs ductwork no diner ever sees. We clean extract systems to the TR19 Grease standard, stripping deposits from canopy to fan and roof cowl, then photograph and certify each run so insurers and environmental-health officers can see bare metal.
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