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TR19 inspections and grease testing in Goring, Oxfordshire
TR19 inspections and grease testing for commercial sites in Goring and across Oxfordshire. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Missing TR19 certificates or history
- Insurers asking for TR19 evidence
- Sections of duct that cannot be reached
Multi-site and managed buildings
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 in Goring and across Oxfordshire. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
TR19 inspection for kitchens and businesses in Goring
Many insurers ask for proof that kitchen extract systems are cleaned and inspected to TR19®. Missing records can lead to a claim being reduced or refused. Our TR19 audits give sites in Goring and across Oxfordshire a clear record of the system’s condition. The work covers wet film thickness tests, deposit thickness tests and insurer audits, and common reasons people get in touch are surveys needed before quoting a full clean and sections of duct that can’t be reached.
In a smaller place like Goring, many kitchens sit in older buildings or later extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Long horizontal runs like that hold grease and need access panels to reach.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, 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
- Goring (RG8)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Goring: your questions answered
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Goring?
It’s Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Goring. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Who inspects food businesses in Goring?
The local authority for Goring is South Oxfordshire council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Do you cover Goring?
Yes. We work across Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, Goring included.
What types of premises do you cover?
Commercial premises of every kind: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. We fit the work around how the site operates.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and we will quote them together.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. Photos often do the job, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
What does a pre-clean survey involve?
A survey finds out how the system is laid out, how dirty it is and what can be reached, before anyone starts cleaning. Missing access panels are noted so they can be sorted first.
How do you protect the area?
Protection goes down first: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
Looking after it afterwards
So the system stays in good health:
- Keep the route to access panels clear
- Keep canopy edges and gutters wiped down
- Send TR19 audit reports to your insurer on request
- Look out for grease drips round the canopy edge
If any reading is 500 microns or more, the report flags it for immediate spot cleaning, and we can arrange it.
Test grease regularly instead of relying on the calendar. It shows if build-up is speeding up.
Signs you need TR19 inspection in Goring
Grease is fuel. A flare-up on the range can be drawn into the canopy and duct, and from there a fire can spread through the ductwork. Knowing how much there is lets you act before it becomes a hazard.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Parts of the system left out of past cleans
- Missing TR19 certificates or history
- Checking the result of a recent clean
- Extracts that may be over the 200 micron mean
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, or anywhere in Goring, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
What to look for in a quote
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- Whether a survey comes first
- How they set the interval to the next visit
- What hours they’ll be on site
Towns and villages near Goring
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Grease, kitchens and Goring
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens in and around Goring, up to about a mile and a half out. For any of them with a canopy, measuring grease is better than guessing when to clean. Kitchens in Goring get their food hygiene inspections from South Oxfordshire council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Goring. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Basildon Park is about 1.8 miles south), access may need planning. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Goring Church of England Aided Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Goring is about 8 miles south-east of Didcot, in Oxfordshire. We carry out TR19 inspection for commercial premises of every kind in Goring and the rest of Oxfordshire. We cover 443 places across Oxfordshire, large and small. You can also see our page for Reading, about 9 miles away.
Here we cover the RG8 postcode area for TR19 inspection. We cover sites on High Street, Station Road and Upper Red Cross Road and nearby roads. Close by, we work in Streatley (1 mile west), Elvendon (1 mile east), Lower Basildon (2 miles south), South Stoke (2 miles north) and Moulsford (2 miles north). Within a short drive, we also cover Didcot (8 miles north-west), Abingdon-on-Thames (12 miles north-west), Wantage (13 miles west), Henley-on-Thames (10 miles east), Grove (14 miles north-west) and Benson (7 miles north).
Local landmarks in Goring
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Queens Arms, among other places. There’s a railway station in Goring itself: Goring & Streatley station. For a walk, there’s Withymead Nature Reserve.
What we do, step by step
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the job takes anything from an hour for a small canopy and short duct to a good part of a day for a large site. Evenings, weekends or a closed day all work for a site in a place like Goring.
- 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.
- Photos are taken to show the condition after the clean.
- We report the findings and flag any areas that need more work.
Getting ready for the visit
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Getting a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send pictures: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
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Why it’s worth doing now in Goring
Catching heavy deposits early keeps the fix small. Ignored, the layer only gets thicker. Light use slows the build-up but doesn’t stop it.
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is all affect the cost. We take each of them into account, and the price is fixed before any work starts.
Why book with us
- In business since 2009
- Every visit written up, with pictures
- Every job surveyed first
- We’re fully insured
What staff can safely do
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that is where we come in.
Honest limits
In fairness, there are a few things this work won’t fix:
- The responsible person’s own fire risk assessment
- Ductwork that was designed or installed badly
- Mechanical faults in the extract
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will say what we think.
What we work on in Goring
- Deposit thickness tests
- Post-clean checks
- Pre-clean surveys
- Access surveys
- Wet film thickness tests
- Insurer audits