TR19 inspections in Bernards Heath

What your team can do, and what needs us

Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.

Keep a record of what your team does. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, next to our reports.

How the job changes from site to site

Schools, hospitals and care homes

We fit testing around service times and school holidays to avoid disruption.

Horizontal duct runs

Grease settles on the floor of horizontal ducts as the air cools. We test at points along the run through access panels.

TR19 inspection in Bernards Heath: the local picture

Look up Bernards Heath on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 159 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 34 takeaways within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Bernards Heath. Kitchens like these cook for very different hours, and grease testing shows which extracts need cleaning soonest. Bernards Heath sits within the area of Hertfordshire 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. It’s St Albans City council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Bernards Heath. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.

Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; St Albans City Hospital is the nearest hospital to Bernards Heath, about less than half a mile west. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Saviour or elsewhere in Bernards Heath, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.

Bernards Heath is about 1 mile north of St Albans, in Hertfordshire. From the centre of Bernards Heath to the outskirts, we cover TR19 inspection for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. Bernards Heath is one of 381 towns, villages and districts in Hertfordshire we cover for TR19 inspection. There’s also a page for London, about 21 miles away.

TR19 inspection in AL3, AL1 and AL4 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. That includes premises on Etna Road, Green Lane and Manor Road and the roads around them. You will find Bernards Heath on the A1081, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for out-of-hours visits. Nearby, we also carry out TR19 inspection in St Albans (1 mile south), Marshalswick (1 mile east), St Stephens (1 mile south-west), Sopwell (2 miles south) and Childwick Green (2 miles north). We also work in nearby towns such as Watford (7 miles south-west), Hemel Hempstead (5 miles west), Stevenage (12 miles north-east), Welwyn Garden City (7 miles north-east), Harpenden (4 miles north) and Hitchin (13 miles north).

Landmarks near Bernards Heath

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around St Albans Girls' School, Clarence Park and Jolly Sailor pub, among other places. Bernards Heath’s nearest station is St Albans station, roughly 0.8 miles south. Nearby you’ll also find The Maltings (0.7 miles south) and St Albans Musical Museum (0.5 miles south-east). Open spaces near Bernards Heath include Verulamium Lake and The Wick Local Nature Reserve.