Dundee · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Dundee restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Dundee
Dundee fries hard, from the chip shops of the Nethergate and Perth Road to the seafront kitchens along the Waterfront.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Seagate, Commercial Street and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With hundreds of food premises rated across Dundee, most are frying in a cramped space.
The kit the Seagate and Commercial Street cooks work beneath - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is what we degrease. Done right it pulls the way it should, clearing heat and steam, backed by a current TR19 Grease certificate, and it runs cooler too, because a clean Dundee fan is not working against a greased one to move the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Seagate cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
Canopy inside and out, baffle filters cleaned or replaced, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - that last part loses performance quietly as grease builds on the blades through a hard Commercial Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Dundee fire risk assessment and insurer have the paperwork they ask for.
Filters
The standard for commercial cooklines: they trap grease and slow flame spread. Cleaned, or replaced when warped or corroded.
Common on older or lighter setups; they clog fast and pass grease through if neglected. We flag where a baffle upgrade is overdue.
On the odour and emission-controlled systems near Dundee's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Dundee cookline's extraction and its fire protection are one system - and a clean is the moment to check the join.
Nozzles aimed at the canopy and cooking points; grease build-up around them on a busy Seagate line is exactly what they exist to fight. We clean around them without disturbing the system.
Where the gas shuts off if extraction fails on a Seagate line, we work without tripping it - and flag it if it is not behaving.
Checked for the grease that would stop them closing - a quiet failure point on a Commercial Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Dundee
We are under Dundee's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A fish and chip shop frying-range canopy in Dundee had grease and carbon built up across the plenum and filters above the fryers. We removed the filters for a soak, hand-scraped the filters and extract duct and degreased through to the extract fan. The extract was left clean and fire-safe with noticeably stronger extraction, and we left a report and photos for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Dundee service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Seagate cookline faster, so the kitchen sits cooler and the fan draws less to shift the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem all at once. How often it is needed follows how hard you cook - the Commercial Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Dundee canopy, filters and fan, agree scope and frequency.
Remove filters and access panels, protect the cookline.
Canopy, filters and fan to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate and next-due date for your Dundee fire logbook.
Questions
It depends how hard the kitchen runs. Under TR19 Grease, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day points to roughly every three months, moderate to every six, light to every twelve. A busy Seagate or Commercial Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Dundee has the university, hospital and waterfront kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes - from Seagate, Commercial Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Dundee.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Seagate and Commercial Street are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Commercial Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Extraction cleaning covers the canopy, filters and fan; where the concealed duct run behind them is also loaded - as it often is in a tight Seagate kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Nethergate cookline can count against your result.
Local knowledge
The first Tay Bridge collapsed in a storm on 28 December 1879, taking a train and its passengers into the river, a disaster that reshaped Victorian engineering. Dundee builds carefully now, and its kitchens are no exception. Grease-laden extraction is the hidden fire risk above every busy range, so we degrease canopies, filters, riser ducts and fans back to metal, then certify the work, cutting the fuel load that turns a flare-up into a fire and keeping cover valid.
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