Oban · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Oban restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Oban
From George Street to the Esplanade and Shore Street, Oban fries at scale for a town its size.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Stevenson Street to Albany Street and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Oban rates dozens of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Stevenson Street and Albany 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 Oban 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 Stevenson Street 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 Albany Street 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 Oban 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 Oban's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Oban 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 Stevenson 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 Stevenson 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 an Albany Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Oban
We are under Oban's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A takeaway in Oban had the canopy and fan housing caked in grease from steady service on the range. We removed the filters for a soak, hand-scraped the canopy and first bend of the duct and degreased through to the extract fan, bringing the canopy and duct up clean and safe with the system drawing properly once more. We left a certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Oban service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Stevenson 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 Albany Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Oban 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 Oban 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 Stevenson Street or Albany Street 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 Stevenson Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Albany Street and Corran Esplanade 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.
Yes - from Stevenson Street, Albany Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Argyll and Bute.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Stevenson Street and Albany 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. Beyond restaurants, Oban has the harbour-front and hotel kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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 Stevenson Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Local knowledge
As the Gateway to the Isles, Oban sends Caledonian MacBrayne ferries out to Mull, Coll, Barra and beyond from the pier at the heart of town, and the crowds passing through feed a dense strip of harbour-front kitchens. High covers mean heavy grease, and grease in an extraction canopy is a fire that has not happened yet. We strip canopies, ducts and fans back to bare metal and record the results to insurer and TR19 standard.
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