Essex · Kitchen extract cleaning
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Ingatestone
Kitchen extract cleaning in Ingatestone, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and pictures. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
Commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in Ingatestone
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and some may refuse or reduce a claim when it’s missing. The certificate and photo report from each clean in Ingatestone give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. If you have grease smells coming from the extract and grease dripping from the canopy or filters, we can put it right. If you need a kitchen extract clean in Ingatestone, you get one team and one number for every site.
What can be cleaned depends on what can be reached. Where a duct run has no panels, we say so on the report and can fit new ones.
For a smaller kitchen near Ingatestone, a TR19® clean is the same job as anywhere: canopy, filters, plenum, duct, fan and discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Where
- Ingatestone (CM4)
- Region
- Essex
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What staff can safely do
Staff cleaning does not replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
Ingatestone questions
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Ingatestone?
That is Brentwood council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Ingatestone. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Can the work in Ingatestone be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. That way a site in Ingatestone does not have to lose a day’s trading. Just call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with your opening times and we’ll plan around them.
What should I send you?
Where the site is, what it is and when it’s open, plus pictures of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
Do you work in Ingatestone?
Yes. We cover Ingatestone and across Essex, within our South East and London area. For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, set at the interval the system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
What about areas you can’t get to?
They’re listed in the report, never skipped quietly. You’ll know exactly which parts weren’t reached and why, and we can quote to improve the access.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we’ll advise on what to do next.
What is TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. Since 2019, TR19® Grease has been a standalone specification for grease in kitchen extract systems, while TR19® Air covers other supply and extract ductwork.
What happens if it’s left?
Every week without a clean adds another layer. BESA guidance says the mean should not go above 200 microns between cleans, and anywhere reaching 500 microns or more needs a spot clean right away. Heavy build-up takes longer to remove than regular cleans. You choose the date of a planned visit, and a breakdown never asks.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and the price is agreed before we start.
What you get with us
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- We diagnose before we treat
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Trading since 2009
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations.
When something else is needed
In fairness, there are a few things this work won’t fix:
- An undersized canopy or fan
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
If you’re not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
What the work covers
- Plenums and filters
- Horizontal duct runs
- Discharge points
- Vertical risers
- Extract fans
- Canopies and hoods
What we are called out for in Ingatestone
A lot of duct grease gets there because the filters let it through. Damaged, missing or overloaded filters let grease straight past, and from there it travels on to the fan.
Clients normally contact us when they notice one of these:
- Fat running down the canopy edge
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
For kitchens close to Ingatestone station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether a survey comes first
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- Whether they’re fully insured
Aftercare tips
Here’s the after-treatment advice, short and simple:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is lit
- Clean the grease filters regularly between TR19 cleans
- Wipe the canopy down at the end of each day
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
A TR19 certificate notes the date, the location and the technician. Keep it in the maintenance log with your fire risk assessment so it’s ready when anyone asks to see it.
Wipe the canopy down regularly and empty grease troughs or collection points. It will not replace a TR19 clean, but it slows what reaches the duct.
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What happens on the day
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. In a place like Ingatestone, we fit the visit around your hours.
- You send pictures or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured and the price is fixed before work starts.
- The kitchen is closed, the equipment cooled and everything nearby protected.
- We work through the system from the canopy to the fan and discharge.
- We re-test, photograph and send your certificate and photo report.
Before we arrive
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Getting a quote
For a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will usually have a quote within one working day.
Advice
Kitchen extracts in Ingatestone
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 8 pubs and bars across Ingatestone and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. Ingatestone is covered by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. In Ingatestone, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Brentwood council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Mayflower Community Hospital (about 3.5 miles south), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. Where a hall near Church of St Edmund and St Mary, or anywhere in Ingatestone, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Ingatestone is about 3 miles north-west of Billericay, in Essex. Anywhere in CM4, we cover kitchen extract cleaning for commercial sites. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, Ingatestone among them. For sites nearby, see our Chelmsford page (7 miles or so).
Here we cover the CM4 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. Streets in the area include Market Place, High Street and The Furlongs, and we cover them all for kitchen extract cleaning. Main roads around Ingatestone include the B1002, which makes travel easy for kitchen extract cleaning. If your site is just outside Ingatestone, we cover Fryerning (1 mile north), Mill Green (1 mile north), Green Street (1 mile west), Buttsbury (1 mile south) and Beggar Hill (1 mile north-west). Further out, we also cover Chelmsford (7 miles north-east), Basildon (8 miles south-east), Harlow (13 miles north-west), Brentwood (4 miles south-west), Maldon (14 miles east) and Canvey Island (13 miles south-east).
Around Ingatestone
Around Ingatestone, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Anglo European School and The Bell Inn, among other places. Ingatestone has its own railway station: Ingatestone station. Other landmarks nearby include Mayflower Community Hospital (3.5 miles south). For a walk, there’s Norsey Wood.
Different parts, different methods
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Some healthcare kitchens never fully close. We plan the clean around meal times and work in a contained, tidy way, so residents and patients aren’t disturbed.
Extract fan and discharge
Some systems have attenuators to cut noise, and they hold grease. We clean what can be reached and note anything that cannot.