Isle of Wight · TR19 inspections and grease testing
Forest Side TR19 inspection
TR19 inspection for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Forest Side. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Uncertainty over how often to clean
- Insurers asking for TR19 evidence
- Systems that need surveying before cleaning
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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, which is where we come in.
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.
About our TR19 inspection in Forest Side
After a clean, post-clean verification checks the result, with fresh grease readings, pictures and a look at the areas that were cleaned. It shows whether the system was left in the condition the paperwork describes. Typical jobs include kitchens taken over with no cleaning records and insurers asking for TR19 evidence, across pre-clean surveys, insurer audits and post-clean checks.
For a kitchen in or near Forest Side, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with pictures after each visit, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Location
- Forest Side (PO30)
- Wider area
- Isle of Wight
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
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FAQs for Forest Side
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Forest Side out of term?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. With about 16 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Forest Side, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with your term dates and we will plan around them.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Forest Side?
That is Isle of Wight council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Forest Side. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
What does a pre-clean survey involve?
The survey covers the whole system, grease readings and access to each section. From it, we plan the clean and quote a fixed price.
How long does a TR19 inspection take?
An inspection takes an hour or two for a single kitchen, longer for a large or complex system. Sites with several canopies take longer, and you can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email to book it in.
What information do you need?
Where the site is, what it is and when it’s open, plus pictures of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
What’s TR19?
TR19® is the BESA specification for keeping ventilation systems clean. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, while TR19® Air covers other supply and extract ductwork.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes, every time. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it, and the quote is based on that.
How do you protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before we start, and anything we remove is contained. At the end, the area is cleaned down.
Keeping the system healthy
Aftercare is simple, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Share inspection reports with your insurer or broker when asked
- Keep canopy edges and gutters wiped down
- Do not box in or cover duct access panels
- Never cook with filters missing
Each report suggests the next clean and the next test, based on the readings and how the kitchen is used.
When cooking hours or the menu change, check the interval still fits. A quick grease test answers the question.
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. It’s worth booking a check, because nobody sees inside a duct day to day.
Combining work into one visit or one programme often makes better use of the time. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we’ll price it together.
What you get with us
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- We’re fully insured
- Every job surveyed first
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or our accreditations and certificates.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Forest Side
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Every visit ends with a dated report and pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with pictures.
The process
Before we leave, we walk the area with whoever is on site. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and the same goes into the written report. All told, the work takes a couple of hours for a typical kitchen extract system. If you can send pictures, we can arrive in Forest Side knowing what to expect.
- We agree a time when the kitchen is closed or quiet.
- The system is checked from canopy to discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured at set points by WFTT or DTT.
- Photos are taken at each point, and access gaps noted.
- The findings go into a report with readings, pictures and a recommended next clean.
Before we arrive
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
Ask for a quote
We don’t publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. We look at your system first, from pictures or on a visit, then send a fixed quote. To get going, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Advice
What TR19 inspection looks like in Forest Side
Food Standards Agency data counts about 57 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 20 sandwich bars and takeaways within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Forest Side. Each kitchen extract among them can be measured for grease to set the right cleaning interval. Kitchens in Forest Side get their food hygiene inspections from Isle of Wight council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. The fire and rescue service for Forest Side is Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near St. Mary's Church, or anywhere in Forest Side, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. For schools such as Carisbrooke College, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. Carisbrooke Castle, about 1.3 miles south, is one of the historic houses near Forest Side; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions.
Forest Side is about 1 mile north-west of Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Every kind of commercial site in Forest Side, we can take on TR19 inspection. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. Our area takes in 125 places across the Isle of Wight, large and small. Our Portsmouth page covers sites nearby (13 miles or so).
Every address in PO30 is within our area for TR19 inspection, from the main roads to the quietest streets. TR19 inspection is available to premises on Forest Road and Gunville Road and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Forest Side, we cover Hunny Hill (1 mile east), Parkhurst (1 mile north-east), Noke Common (1 mile north-east), Porchfield (2 miles north-west) and Locksgreen (2 miles west). Larger places within reach include Ryde (7 miles east), Cowes (4 miles north), Sandown (8 miles south-east), Shanklin (8 miles south-east), Ventnor (9 miles south-east) and East Cowes (4 miles north-east). For island and remote sites, a little more planning is needed, so let us know when you get in touch.
Around Forest Side
In Forest Side, that means kitchens and buildings near Hunnyhill Primary School, Seaclose Park and Island Innovation VI Form Campus, among other places. Other landmarks nearby include Carisbrooke Castle (1.3 miles south) and St Mary's Hospital (1 mile east). Green spaces nearby include Mill Hill and Briddlesford Nature Reserve.
When it’s something else
In fairness, there are a few things this work will not fix:
- The grease itself, which needs a full or spot clean
- The legal duty, which stays with the responsible person
- Fan breakdowns, which need a repair visit
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work
- Pre-clean surveys
- Post-clean checks
- Wet film thickness tests
- Deposit thickness tests
- Access surveys
- Insurer audits
What the work involves, part by part
Extract fan and discharge
The extract fan and its housing collect grease too. They’re included in the readings and pictures.
Vertical risers
Risers carry the extract up through the building. Grease can run down and collect at the base, so the base is a key test point.