Hamilton · 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 Hamilton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hamilton
Hamilton 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 Quarry Street to Duke Street and Burnbank, 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 Hamilton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - college refectories, hotel and pub kitchens, care-home 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 Hamilton 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 Quarry Street and Burnbank, 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hamilton
We are in Hamilton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The extract ducting at a popular factory canteen in Hamilton had grease pooling at its low points, a genuine fire hazard sitting over the cook line. We opened up the run, lifted the grease out by hand and pressure-degreased right through to the fan. The run came up clean of grease and carbon to meet TR19, backed by a report and photos for their file, and we took a single overnight shift so the canteen could open as normal.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hamilton kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Quarry Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Hamilton insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Duke Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Hamilton 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 Burnbank 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 Hamilton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Quarry 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 Hamilton 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. South Lanarkshire 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 Quarry Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Duke Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Burnbank conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Hamilton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Duke Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Burnbank 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. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hamilton 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 Quarry Street and Duke 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 Quarry Street and Burnbank where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Hamilton grew into a weaving town, turning out fine cambric and silks alongside the delicate tambour lace that Duchess Anne's charitable school had introduced the century before. Those low workshops filled with muslin fibre and cotton dust as the looms and frames ran. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris gather unseen until airflow drops 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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