West Sussex · TR19 inspections and grease testing
TR19 inspections and grease testing in Felcourt, West Sussex
We cover Felcourt for TR19 inspection. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- Kitchen extract systems with no recent grease readings
- Cleaning intervals that may not suit the kitchen
- Missing TR19 certificates or history
Multi-site and managed buildings
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare across West Sussex. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we can quote for the whole system.
TR19 inspection in Felcourt, done properly
A fixed schedule does not always match how a kitchen really cooks. Some kitchens build up grease faster than the minimum intervals assume, and only measurement shows it. We give your risk assessment measured figures rather than guesses. Typical jobs include pre-clean surveys before a first TR19 clean and cleaning intervals that may not suit the kitchen, across access surveys, deposit thickness tests and insurer audits.
In a village or hamlet like Felcourt, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are normally a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease, whatever the size of the place.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a written report, dated and illustrated with photos, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Where
- Felcourt (RH19, RH7)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Your questions about TR19 inspection in Felcourt
Which fire service covers Felcourt?
Fire safety enforcement in Felcourt is handled by West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Do you work overnight in Felcourt?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. It means the site in Felcourt keeps running as normal. When you phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us, mention when the site is quiet.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, 24/7. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and the emergency line covers the rest.
How much does TR19 inspection cost in Felcourt?
It depends on the site, so we quote each one individually. For a quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with the site type, opening hours and a few photos.
Will you produce a report for our insurer?
Yes. Our TR19 audits cover readings, photos, access and a recommended cleaning interval. You can pass it straight to your insurer or broker.
Do you survey before quoting?
Yes. Photos often do the job, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, set at the interval the system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
At what point does grease need cleaning?
The TR19® Grease figures are a mean of 200 microns or less between cleans, and immediate spot cleaning wherever a reading hits 500 microns. We show your readings against those figures.
Between visits
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep TR19 certificates, readings and reports together
- Tell us if menus or opening hours change
- Report grease dripping from the canopy
- Clean grease off the canopy between professional cleans
Keep the verification report next to the certificate it relates to. Together they show the system was cleaned and checked.
Clean, correctly fitted filters stop more grease reaching the duct. Gaps around filters let grease get past them.
Leave it or put it right?
A check after cleaning shows whether the work reached every part it should have, before the next clean is due. Systems in rural buildings are often out of sight and out of mind.
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Felcourt
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Photo reports with every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Every job surveyed first
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.
Felcourt kitchens: local notes
Look up Felcourt on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 18 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 7 takeaways across Felcourt and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Kitchens like these cook for very different hours, and grease testing shows which extracts need cleaning soonest. In Felcourt, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Tandridge council. 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. Felcourt sits within the area of West Sussex 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.
Commuter trade near Dormans station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands. School kitchens, at schools like Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Felcourt is about 2 miles north of East Grinstead, in West Sussex. We provide TR19 inspection for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Felcourt and the rest of West Sussex. Across West Sussex, we cover 371 places, and Felcourt is one of them. Our Brighton page covers sites nearby, about 23 miles away.
All of RH19 and RH7 is covered for TR19 inspection, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Whether your site is on Felcourt Lane, Felcourt Road and Blackberry Road or a nearby road, we can help. Other places close to Felcourt include Dormans Park (1 mile south-east), Newchapel (1 mile west), Lingfield (1 mile north), Dormansland (1 mile east) and Felbridge (2 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Crawley (8 miles south-west), Horsham (14 miles south-west), Haywards Heath (12 miles south), Burgess Hill (15 miles south), Broadfield (9 miles south-west) and Bewbush (9 miles south-west).
Near you in Felcourt
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Centenary Fields and Imberhorne School. The closest station to Felcourt is Dormans station, roughly 0.8 miles east. Nearby you’ll also find Queen Victoria Hospital (1.9 miles south-east) and East Grinstead Museum (2.5 miles south). Open spaces near Felcourt include Hedgecourt Lake.
The process
Night work is normal for us. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. The visit itself takes an hour or two for a single kitchen, longer for a large or complex system. If the van will struggle with a lane or gateway near Felcourt, let us know and we’ll plan around it.
- The visit is arranged for when the kitchen isn’t busy.
- Every part of the system is examined, end to end.
- We take WFTT or DTT readings at set points along the system.
- We photograph the test points and record any sections we can’t reach.
- The findings go into a report with readings, pictures and a recommended next clean.
How to prepare
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Let us know about parking and loading
Getting a quote
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, you get a fixed price before we start.
Advice
What TR19 inspection can’t fix
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so here are the limits:
- Parts of the duct nobody can reach yet
- The grease itself, which needs a full or spot clean
- The legal duty, which stays with the responsible person
If you’re not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll give you a straight answer before booking.
What we work on in Felcourt
- Access surveys
- Deposit thickness tests
- Pre-clean surveys
- Wet film thickness tests
- Insurer audits
- Post-clean checks
Towns and villages near Felcourt
What else we do in Felcourt
Common problems we fix in Felcourt
Grease builds up as cooking vapour cools inside the extract. The thickest layers can sit out of sight in the plenum, at bends and along flat runs.
Keep an eye out for these warning signs:
- Extracts that may be over the 200 micron mean
- Missing access panels found on survey
- Confirming a clean reached the whole system
- Kitchens whose menu or hours have changed
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Queen Victoria Hospital is the nearest hospital to Felcourt, about 1.9 miles south-east.
What your quote should include
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- What insurance they carry
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
What your team can do, and what needs us
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.