Wishaw · 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 Wishaw, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Wishaw
Wishaw 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 Wishaw, from Main Street through Kirk Road to Cambusnethan, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Wishaw schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - hospital kitchens, college refectories, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Wishaw 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 Main Street and Cambusnethan, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Wishaw 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 Wishaw hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Wishaw
We are in Wishaw's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A town-centre bakery in Wishaw had its oven extract run lined with grease and carbon, reducing the pull over the hot plates. We cut in access doors, cleared the extract duct of grease and finished with a degreasing wash. The duct came up to bare metal and the fire risk was cleared, with a certificate for the file. We set up a recurring quarterly clean to keep on top of it.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Wishaw kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Main Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Wishaw insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Kirk Road 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 Wishaw 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 Cambusnethan 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 Wishaw fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Wishaw 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 Wishaw 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 Main 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 Wishaw 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 North Lanarkshire 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 Main Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Kirk Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Wishaw offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lanarkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Main Street and Kirk Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Wishaw and the wider Lanarkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Main Street and Kirk Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Cambusnethan conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Wishaw run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Kirk Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Main Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Wishaw sat at the heart of the Lanarkshire coalfield, and the Wishaw and Coltness Railway was cut in the 1830s to carry coal and pig iron down towards the Clyde. The Coltness works outlived the trade, ending its days casting railway sleepers for Tarmac before the site was finally cleared in 2004. Where foundry and mill air once hung thick with dust, modern premises hide theirs inside sealed ductwork, where grease 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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