North Berwick · 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 North Berwick, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
North Berwick
North Berwick rates dozens 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.
Kitchens across North Berwick work out of tight, mixed premises - High Street, Quality Street, Beach Road - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - the seafront chip shops, hotel kitchens and golf-club catering - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark North Berwick insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off High Street and Beach Road, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole North Berwick run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 North Berwick hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in North Berwick
We are in North Berwick's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A town-centre leisure centre in North Berwick had dust and lint blocking the extract grilles in the changing rooms, leaving the air stagnant. We cleared the ceiling grilles, ran brushes through the flexible branches and cleaned the fan impeller blades. Airflow came back up to standard, the changing rooms felt fresh again, and the site was left spotless.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy North Berwick kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a High Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a North Berwick insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Quality 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 North Berwick 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 Beach Road 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 North Berwick fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every North Berwick 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 North Berwick 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 North Berwick 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. East Lothian 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Quality 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 Beach Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from High Street and Quality Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across North Berwick and the wider East Lothian.
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 Beach Road where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Beach Road 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 Quality Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a High Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
The Scottish Seabird Centre opened on the harbour in 2000, its live cameras trained on the Bass Rock offshore, where over 150,000 northern gannets form the world's largest colony of the species. What the lens shows and what is really there can drift apart across a season - and the same holds for ductwork. Grease and dust gather unseen inside extract runs, so we open, inspect and clean the full length to the TR19 Grease standard rather than trusting the visible mouth of the hood.
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