Edinburgh · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Edinburgh restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh fries right across the centre - the Royal Mile and Grassmarket cooklines run from open to close, and the Leith Walk takeaways cook alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Lothian Road to Leith Walk and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Edinburgh rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
The kit the Lothian Road and Leith Walk 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 Edinburgh 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 Lothian Road cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
The canopy is stripped inside and out, the baffle filters cleaned or renewed, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - it is the fan that slips quietly as grease weighs its blades through a hard Leith Walk service. All of it is taken to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as designed and your Edinburgh fire risk assessment and insurer hold the record they expect.
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 Edinburgh's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Edinburgh 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 Lothian Road 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 Lothian Road 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 Leith Walk system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Edinburgh
We are under Edinburgh's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A social club kitchen extract canopy in Edinburgh had baked-on grease over the canopy and fan housing, well past a safe level over the griddle. We soaked the filters, scraped the filters and extract duct and washed the duct down to the fan. The canopy and duct came up clean and safe with the airflow over the range restored, and we left before-and-after images and a certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Edinburgh service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Lothian Road cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Leith Walk takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Lothian Road or Leith Walk kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Lothian Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 Lothian Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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 Leith Walk takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Lothian Road and Leith Walk are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Princes Street cookline can count against your result.
Yes - from Lothian Road, Leith Walk and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Edinburgh.
Local knowledge
Edinburgh earned the nickname Auld Reekie - Old Smoky - from the pall of coal and wood smoke that once hung over the chimneys of the Old Town, thick enough to darken the tenement stone. The smoke has long gone, but the grease-laden vapour rising off the city's fryers and ranges has not, and left in a canopy or riser duct it hardens into fuel. We degrease extraction back to a visible clean finish, certify it and record the grease depth removed, so the run does not become a fire path.
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