Hamilton · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Hamilton restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Hamilton
Hamilton fries hard along Cadzow Street, Townhead Street and Quarry Street, where chip shops, takeaways and cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Cadzow Street, Townhead Street and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the hundreds of food premises rated in Hamilton, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
The kit the Cadzow Street and Townhead 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 Hamilton 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 Cadzow Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard Townhead Street service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Hamilton fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
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 Hamilton's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Hamilton 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 Cadzow Street 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 Cadzow Street 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 Townhead Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Hamilton
We are under Hamilton's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A busy hotel restaurant in Hamilton had grease and carbon built up across the canopy and the first bend of the duct above its fryers. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and bend back and degreased the accessible run through to the fan. With the grease cleared to TR19 the system drew properly again, and we left a certificate for the file, having worked around the staff as they prepped for the day.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Hamilton service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Cadzow Street 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 Townhead Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Cadzow Street or Townhead Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Townhead Street and Duke 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 Cadzow Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Cadzow Street and Townhead 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.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Quarry Street cookline can count against your result.
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 Cadzow Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from Cadzow Street, Townhead Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider South Lanarkshire.
Local knowledge
Hamilton Palace was once the largest private house in Britain, grander than Buckingham Palace, until coal workings beneath it forced its demolition in the 1920s; its domed Mausoleum still stands nearby, holding the longest echo of any man-made structure in the world at around fifteen seconds. The town trades on food now more than on dukes, and busy kitchens coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place it feeds flame and starves airflow. So we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard.
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