Irvine · 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 Irvine, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Irvine
Irvine 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 - High Street, Bridgegate, Dreghorn - 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - hospital kitchens, college refectories, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Irvine 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 High Street and Dreghorn, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Irvine 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 Irvine hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Irvine
We are in Irvine's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An established leisure centre in Irvine had airflow through its ground-floor washrooms right down, the intake grilles thick with dust and lint. We cleared the extract grilles, ran brushes through the flexible branches and cleaned the fan impeller blades. Ventilation was restored and the public washrooms no longer held that damp, stale air, with the area left clean and ready to use. We worked early mornings before visitors arrived to keep things running.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Irvine kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a High Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Irvine 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 Bridgegate 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 Irvine 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 Dreghorn 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 Irvine fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Irvine 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 Irvine 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. To an Irvine insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. When North Ayrshire 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 Bridgegate cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from High Street and Bridgegate kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Irvine and the wider Ayrshire.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Dreghorn 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 work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Bridgegate 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 Irvine offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Ayrshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Dreghorn where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Dreghorn conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
GlaxoSmithKline opened its Irvine plant in 1973, drawn to the coast by the town's deep-water access and energy supply, and it remains one of North Ayrshire's largest employers, making the potassium clavulanate that goes into the antibiotic Augmentin. A modern process plant like that hides its air handling inside sealed ductwork, where grease, dust and debris build 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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