Livingston · 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 Livingston, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Livingston
Livingston 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 Livingston, from Craigshill through Howden to Eliburn, 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.
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 - designer-outlet food courts, chain restaurants, college and hospital canteens and estate staff messes - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Livingston 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 Craigshill and Eliburn, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Livingston 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 Livingston hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Livingston
We are in Livingston's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A dental practice in Livingston had an air handling unit and main supply runs laden with building dust after years without a clean. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed the supply grilles. Air through the open-plan space felt noticeably fresher and the dust complaints stopped, with the AHU and ductwork left clean.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Livingston kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Craigshill cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Livingston insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Howden 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 Livingston 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 Eliburn 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 Livingston fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Livingston 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 Livingston 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 Craigshill 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 a Livingston 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. A food hygiene visit from West Lothian Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the result an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Craigshill kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Howden cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Livingston run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Howden cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Craigshill and Howden kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Livingston and the wider West Lothian.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Livingston offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Lothian hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Craigshill operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Eliburn 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.
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 Eliburn conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
The Livingston Designer Outlet opened in October 2000 and, with The Centre across Almondvale, forms one of the UK's largest retail districts at around 1.29 million square feet. The food courts, chain kitchens and unit cafes behind those shopfronts all push cooking vapour through ductwork that grease steadily narrows. We clean extract systems back to bare metal from canopy to fan, and issue the grease-clearance record that insurers and inspecting officers expect to see.
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