East Kilbride · 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 East Kilbride, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
East Kilbride
East Kilbride 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 Village to Westwood and Stewartfield, 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.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - food-court units, pub and hotel kitchens, retail-park grill houses, hospital and college canteens, and the takeaways of the Village - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark East Kilbride 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 Village and Stewartfield, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full East Kilbride 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 East Kilbride hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in East Kilbride
We are in East Kilbride's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A takeaway kitchen in East Kilbride had carbonised grease coating its extract run from the canopy through to the first bend. We cut in access doors, cleared the grease from the extract duct and finished with a degreasing wash. The grease and carbon were removed from the run, bringing it up to TR19 Grease with full documentation for their records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy East Kilbride kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Village cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or an East Kilbride insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Westwood 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 East Kilbride 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 Stewartfield 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 East Kilbride fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every East Kilbride 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 East Kilbride 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 Village 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 East Kilbride 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 South 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 Village kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Westwood cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Village and Westwood kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across East Kilbride and the wider South Lanarkshire.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Village operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in East Kilbride offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the South Lanarkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Village and Westwood kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Village and Stewartfield where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the East Kilbride run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Westwood cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
Locals call it the Polo Mint City for its scores of roundabouts, the Whirlies with its steel spheres the best known of more than sixty. The same planned sprawl gave the town long runs of ducted kitchen and workshop extract, much of it hidden above ceilings and rarely opened. Grease and dust build unseen until airflow drops or fire risk climbs. We clean ductwork back to bare metal, photograph access hatches and record deposit readings to TR19 grease standard.
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