Glasgow · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Glasgow restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Glasgow
Glasgow fries across the city - the takeaways and grills of Sauchiehall Street, Argyle Street and the Trongate run from open to close.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Trongate to Ingram Street and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Glasgow rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Trongate and Ingram Street cooks work under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Done properly it pulls the way it was designed to, clearing heat and steam, holding a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, because a clean Glasgow fan is not fighting 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 Trongate cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Ingram Street service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Glasgow fire risk assessment and insurer have the record 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 Glasgow's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Glasgow 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 Trongate 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 Trongate 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 an Ingram Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Glasgow
We are under Glasgow's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A small takeaway extract canopy and duct in Glasgow had baked-on grease across the plenum and filters, well past a safe level over the chargrill. We removed the filters for a soak, hand-scraped the plenum and filters and degreased through to the extract fan. The system was cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard and drawing properly once more, and we left before-and-after photos and a certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Glasgow service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Trongate 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 Ingram Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 Trongate or Ingram Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Ingram Street and Sauchiehall Street run a canopy, filters and a fan and often carry a heavy grease load for their size. We clean and certify them the same way as a full restaurant system.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Trongate operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Buchanan Street cookline can count against your result.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Trongate and Ingram 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 - from Trongate, Ingram Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Glasgow.
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 Trongate kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Local knowledge
The Barras, the East End street market trading since 1921, still draws the crowds at weekends, and the food stalls, cafes and chip shops around the Gallowgate fry hard through the day. That trade keeps grills, fryers and ranges worked to the limit, and each one drives grease-laden vapour up into its canopy and duct. Left there it hardens into fuel; extracted, degreased and certified with the grease depth logged, it keeps both the insurer and the fire risk satisfied.
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