Stonehaven · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Stonehaven restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Stonehaven
Stonehaven fries hard - from the Carron Fish Bar on Allardice Street to the takeaways around Market Square and Barclay Street.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Cameron Street, Evan Street and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With dozens of food premises rated across Stonehaven, most are frying in a cramped space.
We degrease the part of the system the Cameron Street and Evan 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 Stonehaven 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 Cameron 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 Evan 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 Stonehaven 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 Stonehaven's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Stonehaven 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 Cameron 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 Cameron 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 Evan Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Stonehaven
We are under Stonehaven's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A pizzeria in Stonehaven had a heavy grease layer over the canopy and fan housing, a real fire risk above the cook line. We cleaned the canopy and fan housing back to bare metal, degreased the fan housing and refitted the cleaned filters, clearing the grease to the TR19 Grease standard with a much better draw across the canopy. We left a certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Stonehaven service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Cameron Street cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the Evan Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Stonehaven 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 Stonehaven 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 Cameron Street or Evan Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Cameron Street 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 Evan Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Cameron Street and Evan 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.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Cameron Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes - from Cameron Street, Evan Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Aberdeenshire.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Stonehaven has the harbour-town kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Local knowledge
Robert William Thomson, born in Stonehaven in 1822, patented the pneumatic tyre decades before Dunlop and later invented the fountain pen - a reminder that clever engineering has deep roots here. That same practical bent runs through extraction work: grease-laden canopies, filters and riser ducts above the town's fryers and ranges have to be degreased and certified so the run does not become a fire path. We clean to a visible standard and record the grease depth we removed.
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