TR19 inspections and grease testing in Cutteslowe, Oxfordshire

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.

In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.

What TR19 inspection looks like in Cutteslowe

The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 10 pubs and bars and about 9 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses within about 1.5 miles of central Cutteslowe. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Cutteslowe is covered by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. It’s Oxford City council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Cutteslowe. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.

For schools such as Cutteslowe Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Cutteslowe (Holywell Manor is about 2.5 miles south), fitting access panels needs care. A hospital like Acland Hospital, about 2 miles south, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.

Cutteslowe is about 3 miles north-west of Oxford, in Oxfordshire. Cutteslowe gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where necessary and a written report with photos. Cutteslowe is one of 443 places in Oxfordshire where we work for TR19 inspection.

Every address in OX2 is covered for TR19 inspection, from busy streets to back roads. We cover sites on Wren Road, Scott Road and Wyatt Road and the roads around them. With the A4165 close by, Cutteslowe is easy for our technicians to reach at any hour. Other places close to Cutteslowe include Sunnymead (1 mile south), Summertown (1 mile south), North Oxford (1 mile south), Wolvercote (1 mile west) and Godstow (2 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Oxford (3 miles south-east), Didcot (12 miles south), Bicester (9 miles north-east), Abingdon-on-Thames (8 miles south), Witney (10 miles west) and Carterton (14 miles west).

Near you in Cutteslowe

Around Cutteslowe, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Oxford University Parks, St Hugh's College Main Building Including Library and The Plough pub, among other places. Other local landmarks include Oxford Academy (1.1 miles south) and Summer Fields School (0.8 miles south). For rail, the closest station is Oxford Parkway station, roughly 1 mile north. Other landmarks nearby include Acland Hospital (2 miles south) and Oxford University Museum of Natural History (2.2 miles south). For a walk, there’s Headington Hill and Hook Meadow and The Trap Grounds.

How the job changes from site to site

Restaurants, pubs and hotels

We test between services, early in the morning or after close so trading is not affected.

Extract fan and discharge

The extract fan and its housing collect grease too. They’re included in the readings and pictures.