Essex · TR19 inspections and grease testing
TR19 inspections in Cowey Green
We cover Cowey Green for TR19 inspections, grease thickness testing, pre-clean surveys and post-clean verification. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- An insurer’s request for a TR19 audit
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
- Kitchens whose menu or hours have changed
How we handle TR19 inspection in Cowey Green
Grease thickness testing tells you how much grease is sitting in the canopy, ducts and fan. We use the Wet Film Thickness Test (WFTT) or the Deposit Thickness Test (DTT), taking readings at set points. From the numbers, you can see whether cleaning is due. Typical jobs include kitchens whose menu or hours have changed and sites with gaps in their extract records, across wet film thickness tests, pre-clean surveys and access surveys.
For a kitchen in or near Cowey Green, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
The report is your system’s health record: a dated account with pictures of everything we did. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, ready for your insurer.
- Location
- Cowey Green (CO7)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Cowey Green questions
Can the work in Cowey Green be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. It means the site in Cowey Green keeps running as normal. When you call 0345 646 2711, or email photos, mention when the site is quiet.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Cowey Green?
That is Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, with visits at the interval your system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
What should I send you?
Where the site is, what it is and when it’s open, plus photos of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
Is Cowey Green in your area?
Yes. We work in Cowey Green and the rest of Essex, within our South East and London area. To book, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so we can schedule a run of sites on one programme. Each site gets its own report and photos.
How much does TR19 inspection cost?
It depends on the site, so we quote each one individually. To get one, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us about the site and its opening hours.
What if parts of the system cannot be reached?
They’re listed in the report, never skipped quietly. The report says which parts couldn’t be reached and why, along with a quote to put access in.
Common problems we fix in Cowey Green
Grease is fuel. Flames from the range can be pulled into the canopy and travel through the ducts to other parts of the building. Measuring it is the first step to keeping it under control.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- Surveys needed before quoting a full clean
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
- Parts of the system left out of past cleans
- Sites with gaps in their extract records
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St George or elsewhere in Cowey Green, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Questions to ask before you book
- Proof of insurance
- What paperwork you get at the end
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- How they set the interval to the next visit
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 is an evening, overnight or a weekend. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the job takes a couple of hours for a typical kitchen extract system. In a small place like Cowey Green, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.
- First we book a time that won’t disrupt cooking.
- The system is checked from canopy to discharge.
- We take WFTT or DTT readings at set points along the system.
- We photograph the test points and record any sections we cannot reach.
- We send a report setting out the readings, pictures and next steps.
Preparing for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
Get a fixed quote
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Related advice
Kitchen extracts in Cowey Green
Food Standards Agency data counts about 3 restaurants, cafés and canteens in Cowey Green and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. A WFTT or DTT reading tells each of those kitchens whether its grease is staying under the 200-micron mean. Environmental health officers from Tendring council inspect food businesses in Cowey Green. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Cowey Green is covered by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
Bursars and site managers at schools such as St George's Church of England Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Cowey Green (Castle House is about 4.5 miles north-west), fitting access panels needs care.
Cowey Green is about 6 miles east of Colchester, in Essex. Sites in Cowey Green get the same service as everywhere we cover: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with pictures. Cowey Green is one of 644 places in Essex where we work for TR19 inspection. Chelmsford is in our area too, around 26 miles away.
We cover every part of CO7 for TR19 inspection and the roads nearby. TR19 inspection is available to premises on Mary Lane North and Camp Road and nearby roads. Other places close to Cowey Green include Hare Green (1 mile south), Great Bromley (1 mile north-west), Balls Green (1 mile south), Monkey Street (1 mile east) and Frating Green (1 mile south). Further out, we also cover Colchester (6 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (8 miles south-east), Harwich (10 miles east), Camulodunum (7 miles west), Greenstead (4 miles west) and Tiptree (13 miles south-west).
What’s near Cowey Green
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Old Courthouse Inn. The nearest railway station is Great Bentley station, roughly 2.9 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Wivenhoe Chapel Museum (3.7 miles south-west). The countryside around Cowey Green includes Cockaynes Wood.
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What else we do in Cowey Green
What affects the cost of TR19 inspection
Every site gets its own quote. These are the things that affect it:
- The times the site is available
- The condition of the system
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- A single visit or a regular plan
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we’ll go through it with you.
What we need to know
Many jobs can be priced from pictures and some basics. Send what you can of the following:
- Any previous report or certificate
- The postcode and the type of business
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Problems your staff have spotted
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in pictures, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Part by part
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Education kitchens need TR19 inspections like any other. Testing shows whether the interval suits.
Canopy and plenum
We look over the canopy, inside and out, with readings where grease collects.
What staff can safely do
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: 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.
Keeping the system healthy
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Clean grease off the canopy between professional cleans
- Share inspection reports with your insurer or broker when asked
- Flag oily drips near the extract
- Keep access panels clear and unpainted
After post-clean verification, file the results with the cleaning certificate. The pair gives a clear record of the clean and the check.
Fit access panels where the survey finds sections cannot be reached, so grease isn’t left building in hidden parts.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Cowey Green
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party, and the report can go to both.
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so each one has its own record.