Edinburgh · 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 Edinburgh, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh 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.
Right across Edinburgh, from Princes Street through George Street to Royal Mile, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Edinburgh schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the University of Edinburgh halls, the city-centre hotels, and the festival and stadium catering - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Edinburgh insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Princes Street and Royal Mile, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Edinburgh run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Edinburgh hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Edinburgh
We are in Edinburgh's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-street launderette in Edinburgh had fabric fluff built up in its flexible dryer exhaust ducting, narrowing it to a fraction of its bore and raising a clear fire risk. We stripped and vacuumed the full length of the dryer ducting, cleared the discharge louvre and checked the airflow. The fire risk was removed and the laundry ran cooler and drier, with the site left spotless.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Edinburgh kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Princes Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or an Edinburgh insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying George 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 Edinburgh 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 Royal Mile 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 Edinburgh fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Princes 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 live TR19 Grease certificate is what an Edinburgh 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. City of Edinburgh 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 Princes Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime George Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Edinburgh offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Edinburgh hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Royal Mile conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Princes Street and George Street 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 Princes Street and Royal Mile where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from Princes Street and George Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Edinburgh and the wider Edinburgh.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Princes Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
The Forth Bridge, opened in 1890 just north of the city, threw more than 50,000 tonnes of steel across the firth in the world's first major all-steel cantilever, and its red spans still carry trains today. Steel on that scale demands maintenance rather than faith, and so does the greasy dust that builds inside kitchen and workshop ductwork. We survey, brush and access-hatch the runs, photographing each hatch before and after, so the fire risk inside the duct is measured and logged rather than guessed at.
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