Falkirk · 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 Falkirk, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Falkirk
Falkirk 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 High Street to Newmarket Street and Bainsford, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Falkirk 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 Falkirk 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 High Street and Bainsford, 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 Falkirk 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 Falkirk hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Falkirk
We are in Falkirk's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A family-owned GP surgery in Falkirk had its dry ventilation ducting coated in dust and debris, with staff complaining of stale, warm air. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed down the AHU. The supply air was restored to a clean standard to the client's real satisfaction, and we worked discreetly enough that visitors barely noticed us on site.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Falkirk kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a High Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Falkirk insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Newmarket 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 Falkirk 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 Bainsford 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 Falkirk fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Falkirk 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 Falkirk 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 High 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 Falkirk 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 Falkirk 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Newmarket Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 High Street and Bainsford where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Falkirk offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Falkirk hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Newmarket Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Falkirk run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Newmarket Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Bainsford 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 High Street and Newmarket Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Falkirk and the wider Falkirk.
Local knowledge
Carron was only the beginning: by the early twentieth century Falkirk had grown into the light-castings capital of the world, its dozens of foundries turning out ranges, baths, pillar boxes and pipes in air thick with sand and iron dust. Modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds 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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