TR19 inspections and grease testing in Cowley, Oxfordshire

Grease, kitchens and Cowley

There are about 98 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 32 sandwich bars and takeaways across Cowley and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half), according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Where they cook under a canopy, a grease reading is the way to tell whether the extract is due a clean. In Cowley, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Oxford City council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Cowley. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

Term dates shape school work: for a school like Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Cowley is NHS Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, about within half a mile east. Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Holywell Manor is about 2.1 miles north-west), access may need planning.

Cowley is about 1 mile south-east of Oxford, in Oxfordshire. Across the OX4 area, we cover TR19 inspection for commercial sites. Our Oxfordshire coverage runs to 443 places, and Cowley is one of them.

Work in OX4 and OX3 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Local streets include Barns Road, Marsh Road and Clive Road, all of which we cover for TR19 inspection. Close by, we work in Iffley (1 mile west), Blackbird Leys (1 mile south), Donnington (1 mile north-west), Littlemore (1 mile south-west) and Oxford (1 mile north-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Didcot (9 miles south), Bicester (12 miles north), Abingdon-on-Thames (5 miles south-west), Witney (12 miles west), Thame (10 miles east) and Wantage (13 miles south-west).

What’s near Cowley

In Cowley, that means kitchens and buildings near The Nelson pub, South Park and Emmanuel Christian School and the streets around them. Other local landmarks include Greyfriars Catholic School (0.6 miles north-west) and Alexander Library of Ornithology (1.9 miles north-west). Cowley’s nearest station is Oxford station, roughly 2.7 miles north-west. Nearby you’ll also find Templars Square (less than half a mile south-west) and British Tattoo History Museum (0.7 miles north-west). The countryside around Cowley includes Headington Hill and CS Lewis Nature Reserve.

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.

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, and that is where we come in.

Landlords, agents and facilities managers

The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.

We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare across Oxfordshire. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.