West Sussex · TR19 inspections and grease testing
East Ashling TR19 inspection
TR19 inspections and grease testing for commercial sites in East Ashling and across West Sussex. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
- Systems cleaned on a calendar with no measurements
- Sites with gaps in their extract records
Questions from East Ashling
Who inspects food businesses in East Ashling?
That’s Chichester council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in East Ashling. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Do you work overnight in East Ashling?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. That way a site in East Ashling doesn’t have to lose a day’s trading. Let us know the hours you’re closed and we will book within them.
What is grease thickness testing?
WFTT and DTT are the two methods for measuring grease thickness, in microns. Readings are taken at set points through the system.
What do the grease readings need to be?
The TR19® Grease figures are a mean of 200 microns or less between cleans, and immediate spot cleaning wherever a reading hits 500 microns. Our report sets your readings against both.
How long does grease testing take?
Expect it to take around an hour or two per canopy and duct system. We fit it around when the kitchen is closed or quiet.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and we’ll quote them together.
What information do you need?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, plus photos of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
Which sectors do you work in?
Commercial premises of every kind: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. We fit the work around how the site operates.
TR19 inspection in East Ashling
A pre-clean survey is the diagnosis, and the clean is the treatment. Readings, photos and notes on access are gathered from end to end, so the quote and the clean fit the real system. The work covers deposit thickness tests, access surveys and pre-clean surveys, and common reasons people get in touch are insurers asking for TR19 evidence and systems that need surveying before cleaning.
Somewhere as small as East Ashling, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease, whatever the size of the place.
Every visit ends with a written report and photos, so there’s a dated record of the work. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, the certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- East Ashling (PO18)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Leave it or put it right?
An EHO visit, an insurance renewal or a fire risk assessment is a bad time to find your extract records are thin. An inspection now gives a site in East Ashling a current picture. A planned visit to East Ashling is easier to arrange than an emergency callout.
One small site or a whole estate, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.
Why East Ashling businesses choose us
- Fully insured
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A written report with pictures after every visit
- Every job surveyed first
See how cleaning jobs are priced or how to check a contractor.
Multi-site and managed buildings
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in East Ashling and across West Sussex. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept on a regular cycle.
What we are called out for in East Ashling
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers look to TR19® as the benchmark. It is not legislation; the legal duty comes from the Fire Safety Order 2005, under which the responsible person must reduce fire risk, and grease in the extract is part of that risk.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Systems cleaned on a calendar with no measurements
- An insurer’s request for a TR19 audit
- Post-clean verification after another contractor’s clean
- Missing TR19 certificates or history
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (West Dean House is about 4 miles north-east), access may need planning.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether they’re fully insured
- Whether a survey comes first
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
Keeping the system healthy
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. We recommend:
- Send TR19 audit reports to your insurer on request
- Book the next test on the date in the report
- Clean grease off the canopy between professional cleans
- Clean or swap grease filters as often as the kitchen needs
The report recommends when the system should next be cleaned and tested, from the measured grease and the kitchen’s hours.
Keep filters clean and in place. Gaps around filters let grease get past them.
What the work involves, part by part
Vertical risers
Risers carry the extract up through the building. Grease can run down and collect at the base, so we check there.
Horizontal duct runs
Flat duct runs collect grease along their base. We test at points along the run through access panels.
What your team can do, and what needs us
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.
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, alongside our reports.
What happens on the day
We start by comparing what we find with the survey or your photos. If anything is different, we talk it through with the person on site before carrying on. From there, it takes a couple of hours for a typical kitchen extract system. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to East Ashling and turn up when the site is quiet.
- After the clean, we arrange a time to check the system.
- We open the access points used on the clean.
- We repeat the WFTT or DTT readings.
- We photograph each area to record how it was left.
- We report the findings and flag any areas that need more work.
Preparing for the visit
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Getting a quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. Then we send a fixed price so you know the cost before work begins.
Related advice
TR19 inspection in East Ashling: the local picture
Look up East Ashling on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 3 restaurants, cafés and canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of East Ashling. Kitchens like these cook for very different hours, and grease testing shows which extracts need cleaning soonest. West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service covers East Ashling. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. It’s Chichester council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in East Ashling. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Andrew or elsewhere in East Ashling, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event. A hospital like Chichester Centre, about 3 miles east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
East Ashling is about 3 miles north-west of Chichester, in West Sussex. We carry out TR19 inspection for businesses, landlords and public buildings in East Ashling and the rest of West Sussex. Across West Sussex, we cover 371 places, East Ashling among them. You can also see our page for Portsmouth, roughly 11 miles from East Ashling.
We cover every part of PO18 for TR19 inspection and the streets around it. Neighbouring places we cover for TR19 inspection include West Ashling (1 mile west), West Stoke (1 mile north-east), Funtington (1 mile north-west), Broadbridge (2 miles south) and Hambrook (2 miles west). Further out, we also cover Bognor Regis (8 miles south-east), Chichester (3 miles south-east), Selsey (9 miles south), Littlehampton (14 miles east), Emsworth (4 miles west) and Rustington (15 miles east).
Near you in East Ashling
Typical jobs here are in premises near Bishop Luffa School and The Horse And Groom Public House and the streets around them. The closest station to East Ashling is Bosham station, about 1.4 miles south of the centre. A little further out are Novium Museum (3 miles south-east) and Chichester Castle (3.1 miles south-east). Not far away are Stoke Down and Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve.