TR19 inspections and grease testing in Arkesden, Essex

Kitchen extracts in Arkesden

Look up Arkesden on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Arkesden. For any of them with a canopy, measuring grease is better than guessing when to clean. The fire and rescue service for Arkesden is Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises. Environmental health officers from Uttlesford council inspect food businesses in Arkesden. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.

A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary the Virgin or elsewhere in Arkesden, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. For schools such as Joyce Frankland Academy, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.

Arkesden is about 4 miles south-west of Saffron Walden, in Essex. Whatever kind of site you run in Arkesden, we can take on TR19 inspection. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Arkesden is one of 644 places in Essex we cover for TR19 inspection. Chelmsford is in our area too, around 22 miles away.

We cover every part of the CB11 postcode area for TR19 inspection and the streets around it. We cover sites on Clatterbury Lane, Wicken Road and Hampit Road and the roads around them. If your site is just outside Arkesden, we cover Hill Green (1 mile south), Wicken Bonhunt (1 mile south-east), Clavering (2 miles south-west), Starling's Green (2 miles south-west) and Langley (2 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover Harlow (15 miles south), Saffron Walden (4 miles north-east), Great Dunmow (12 miles south-east), Stansted Mountfitchet (6 miles south), Newhall (15 miles south) and Elsenham (6 miles south-east).

Local landmarks in Arkesden

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Axe And Compasses Inn and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Audley End station, about 2.3 miles north-east. Well-known places in the area include Saffron Walden Community Hospital (4.9 miles north-east) and The Warren (4 miles west).

Why act early in Arkesden

Sites in Arkesden that have never measured grease cannot tell whether their cleaning interval suits the kitchen. Measured readings let a competent person set the interval. It’s worth booking a check, because nobody sees inside a duct day to day.

Every site is different, so we price each one individually. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all make a difference.

Why Arkesden businesses choose us

• A fixed price before any work starts
• Every visit written up, with photos
• One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
• Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001

Read what affects the cost and our accreditations and certificates.

In-house cleaning or a specialist?

Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.

For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.