Peebles · 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 Peebles, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Peebles
Peebles 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 Peebles work out of tight, mixed premises - High Street, Northgate, Young Street - 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.
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 - the busy hotel kitchens at Peebles Hydro and Cringletie House, function and banqueting catering, and the High Street restaurants that turn covers all week - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Peebles 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 Young Street, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Peebles 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 Peebles hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Peebles
We are in Peebles's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A small nursery kitchen in Peebles had grease pooling at the low points of the horizontal duct run, a real fire hazard over the canopy. We fitted access panels, scraped the extract ductwork back and degreased through to bare metal. The ductwork was cleaned to bare metal and passed the TR19 grease standard, with full documentation for their records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Peebles 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 a Peebles 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 Northgate 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 Peebles 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 Young Street 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 Peebles fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Peebles 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 Peebles 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. Your Peebles insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Scottish Borders 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Northgate cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Peebles run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Northgate cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Young Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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.
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 Young Street where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from High Street and Northgate kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Peebles and the wider the Scottish Borders.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Young Street 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.
Local knowledge
Neidpath Castle stands on a bluff above the Tweed just west of the town, a medieval tower house whose thick walls have channelled Borders air for six hundred years. Ductwork does the same job far less romantically, and only if it stays clear. We survey, clean and certify extraction ductwork across Peebles to the ventilation-hygiene standard, clearing the grease, dust and debris that build up out of sight and turn a duct into a fire path.
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