Kitchen extract cleaning in Edinburgh
Edinburgh's kitchens work inside some of the most constrained buildings in Britain. The Old Town stacks restaurants and pubs along the Royal Mile, the Grassmarket, the Cowgate and Victoria Street in closes and vaulted cellars, while the New Town's George Street, Rose Street and Thistle Street run bars and dining rooms in Georgian basements. Leith's Shore and Commercial Street hold some of the best-regarded restaurants in Scotland, Leith Walk is lined with independents, Stockbridge and Bruntsfield have their own busy strips, and the St James Quarter has brought a large food hall into the centre. Tollcross and Nicolson Street serve the university, and the conference hotels around the EICC and Haymarket cook for delegates.
August changes everything. During the Fringe and the festivals, kitchens across the Old Town run from breakfast to the small hours for four weeks, which can push a restaurant that is moderate use under TR19 Grease for eleven months into heavy use, and experienced operators book a clean just before. A Nicolson Street kebab shop or a Grassmarket grill is heavy use at three months; a New Town hotel breakfast kitchen may be light at twelve. We arrange TR19 Grease cleans for hotels, restaurants and pubs across the city, including full kitchen extract cleaning in listed and basement premises.
Compliance in Edinburgh
Food safety inspections in Edinburgh are carried out by the City of Edinburgh Council's environmental health service under Scotland's Food Hygiene Information Scheme, and officers checking a Royal Mile restaurant during the festivals will ask for the extract-cleaning report. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service enforces fire safety in the city's non-domestic premises, and its officers take particular interest in the Old Town, where a basement kitchen fire can spread through a close into the tenement flats above. Insurers covering Edinburgh hospitality require cleaning at the TR19 interval as a condition of cover, and a loss adjuster instructed after a fire will ask for the certificate, readings and photographs first. Care homes in the city report to the Care Inspectorate, whose inspectors expect the same evidence.
How it works for a Edinburgh kitchen
Describe the kitchen, its building and its trading pattern and an Edinburgh contractor used to closes, basements and shared roof spaces will quote within a working day. Cleans are scheduled after service, on a closed day or in the quieter weeks before the festivals, and the contractor arranges any access through common stairs with your factor or landlord. You receive the TR19 Grease certificate with grease readings and dated photographs, and we log the next due date and remind you in good time so the paperwork is current when the festivals begin.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around Edinburgh
Armadale · Bathgate · Bo'ness · Bonnyrigg · Broxburn · Buckhaven · Cowdenbeath · Dalgety Bay · Dalkeith · Dunfermline · Galashiels · Glenrothes · Grangemouth · Haddington · Hawick · Kirkcaldy · Leven · Linlithgow · Livingston · Mayfield · Methil · Musselburgh · Penicuik · Polmont · Prestonpans · Rosyth · South Queensferry · Tranent · Whitburn
Nearby: Leith · Musselburgh · Dalkeith · Livingston · Penicuik · South Queensferry · Haddington · Dunfermline — all covered from Edinburgh. Other cities in Scotland: Glasgow · Aberdeen · Dundee
Frequently asked questions
Should our Old Town restaurant have its extract cleaned before or after the Fringe?
Before, and often again afterwards. A clean in July means the system starts the festivals within the TR19 Grease limit and the certificate is current when environmental health officers and fire officers are at their busiest, and a check in September shows how much a month of eighteen-hour days has deposited. Many Old Town operators run a three-month interval across the summer and six months for the rest of the year.
How does the Food Hygiene Information Scheme treat the extract system?
The scheme gives a Pass or Improvement Required result based on the whole hygiene picture, and the council's environmental health officer will look at the canopy, filters and visible ductwork during the visit. A current TR19 Grease report with grease readings and photographs is the recognised way to show the system is being maintained, and it doubles as the evidence your insurer and, for care homes, the Care Inspectorate expect.
Our Leith restaurant shares a duct riser with the flats above. Who is responsible for cleaning it?
Your lease and the tenement's title deeds decide it. Tenants are normally responsible for the canopy and the duct up to the point where it enters common property, and the factor or owners for the shared riser and roof discharge. The contractor cleans your section and records the boundary in the report, and can quote for the common section if the factor agrees, so the whole run is covered.