St Andrews · 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 St Andrews, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
St Andrews
St Andrews 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.
From Market Street to South Street and Logies Lane, 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 St Andrews offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the University of St Andrews halls, the Old Course Hotel, Rusacks and the Fairmont golf resort - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark St Andrews 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 Market Street and Logies Lane, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full St Andrews 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 St Andrews hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in St Andrews
We are in St Andrews's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A care home laundry room in St Andrews had dryer fluff narrowing the vent line to a fraction of its bore, tripping the dryers' overheat cut-outs. We ran brushes and a HEPA vacuum through the flexible ducting, then confirmed a clean discharge outside. The dryers ran hotter and faster, the laundry block lost its damp, warm feel, and the site was left spotless.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy St Andrews kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Market Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a St Andrews insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying South 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 St Andrews 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 Logies Lane 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 St Andrews fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every St Andrews 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 St Andrews 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 Market 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 St Andrews 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. A food hygiene visit from Fife 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 Market Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime South Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the St Andrews run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a South Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Market Street and South Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Logies Lane 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 - from Market Street and South Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across St Andrews and the wider Fife.
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 Logies Lane conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in St Andrews offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Fife hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
The University of St Andrews was founded in 1413, the oldest university in Scotland and the third-oldest in the English-speaking world, and its lecture halls, labs and residences are woven right through the town. Those buildings run modern kitchens and workshops, and the ductwork above them carries grease and dust; left uncleaned it feeds fire and chokes airflow. Surveyed, brushed and access-hatched runs are what keep extraction moving and the insurers satisfied.
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