Glasgow · 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 Glasgow, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Glasgow
Glasgow 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Buchanan Street, Sauchiehall Street, Finnieston - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Glasgow offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the University of Glasgow halls, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, the Hampden, Celtic Park and Ibrox stadiums, and the city-centre hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Glasgow 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 Buchanan Street and Finnieston, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Glasgow 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 Glasgow hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Glasgow
We are in Glasgow's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A town-centre public toilet block in Glasgow had a washroom extract that had all but stopped, with dust and lint matting the extract grilles. We cleared the grilles, ran brushes through the flexible branch ducting and cleaned the roof extract fan blades. Extraction was restored across the staff toilets, taking the damp, stale smell with it, and the area was left clean and ready to use.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Glasgow kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Buchanan Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Glasgow insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Sauchiehall Street kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Glasgow 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 Finnieston 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 Glasgow fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 Buchanan 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 Glasgow 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. Glasgow 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 Buchanan Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Sauchiehall 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 Buchanan Street and Finnieston where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Glasgow run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Sauchiehall Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Glasgow and the wider Glasgow.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Buchanan Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Glasgow offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Glasgow hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
The Glasgow Subway opened in 1896, the third-oldest underground railway in the world after London and Budapest, and its orange trains still loop the city on the original circle. The buildings above that network run modern kitchens and workshops, and the ductwork threaded through them carries grease and dust; left uncleaned it feeds fire and chokes airflow. Surveyed, brushed and access-hatched runs, photographed before and after, are what keep extraction moving and the insurers satisfied.
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