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TR19 inspections in Gossops Green
One call covers TR19 inspections and grease testing in Gossops Green: survey, fixed quote, work and sign-off. Fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001.
- Surveys needed before quoting a full clean
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
- Kitchens taken over with no cleaning records
TR19 inspection for kitchens and businesses in Gossops Green
Insurance policies often require evidence of TR19® cleaning and inspection. Without it, a claim can be refused or reduced. Our TR19 audits give sites in Gossops Green and across West Sussex a clear record of the system’s condition. The work covers post-clean checks, wet film thickness tests and deposit thickness tests, and people most often call us about missing TR19 certificates or history and cleaning intervals that may not suit the kitchen.
In a smaller place like Gossops Green, 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.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Location
- Gossops Green (RH11, RH10)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Gossops Green kitchens: local notes
Look up Gossops Green on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 91 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 44 sandwich bars and takeaways across Gossops Green and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). A WFTT or DTT reading tells each of those kitchens whether its grease is staying under the 200-micron mean. Fire safety in Gossops Green falls to West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract. It’s Crawley council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Gossops Green. 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.
A kitchen near Ifield station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Ifield Community College or anywhere near Gossops Green, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Gossops Green is about 1 mile west of Crawley, in West Sussex. Across the RH11 area, we cover TR19 inspection for commercial sites. Across West Sussex, we cover 371 places, Gossops Green among them. We also work in Guildford, about 18 miles from Gossops Green.
Our technicians cover all of the RH11 and RH10 postcode area for TR19 inspection and the roads nearby. If you need TR19 inspection at premises on Oak Road, Capel Lane and Goffs Lane or anywhere close by, we can help. With the A23 close by, Gossops Green is easy for our technicians to reach for TR19 inspection. If your site is just outside Gossops Green, we cover Ifield (1 mile north), Bewbush (1 mile south-west), Ifieldwood (2 miles north-west), Lambs Green (2 miles west) and Russ Hill (3 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Horsham (6 miles south-west), Haywards Heath (9 miles south-east), Burgess Hill (11 miles south), East Grinstead (9 miles east), Billingshurst (12 miles south-west) and Roffey (5 miles south-west).
Around Gossops Green
In Gossops Green, that means kitchens and buildings near Target Hill Park, The Swan pub and St Wilfrid's Catholic School and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in Gossops Green itself: Ifield station. Nearby you’ll also find County Mall (0.9 miles east) and Crawley Hospital (within half a mile north-east). Not far away are Tilgate Lake.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
What we are called out for in Gossops Green
Looking at a canopy tells you little about what’s in the duct. Clean filters can hide a heavy layer behind them, so readings are the reliable guide.
Most sites get in touch after spotting something like this:
- An insurer’s request for a TR19 audit
- Pre-clean surveys before a first TR19 clean
- Sites with gaps in their extract records
- Uncertainty over how often to clean
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Crawley Hospital about under half a mile north-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether a written report and photos are included
FAQs for Gossops Green
Can the work in Gossops Green be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. It means the site in Gossops Green keeps running as normal. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Will you come out to Gossops Green?
Yes, we work in villages as well as towns, and Gossops Green is covered. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Tell us what you have and how it’s used and we will propose a schedule with a fixed quote.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
No, TR19® is not legislation. The Fire Safety Order 2005 still requires the responsible person to manage fire risk, and grease in the extract is part of that. Many insurance policies also require TR19 adherence.
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. Large or multiple systems take longer, so give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we’ll plan it.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and you’ll get one fixed quote.
What happens to the waste?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We do not leave it behind.
Do you survey before quoting?
Yes, always. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it, and the quote is based on that.
Looking after it afterwards
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Keep TR19 certificates, readings and reports together
- Report grease dripping from the canopy
- Keep to the recommended interval
- Wipe the canopy surfaces regularly
After post-clean verification, file the results with the cleaning certificate. Together they show the system was cleaned and checked.
Regular grease readings keep the cleaning interval honest. It shows if build-up is speeding up.
What the work involves, part by part
Canopy and plenum
Clean-looking filters don’t mean a clean plenum. That’s why we test behind them.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Hospital and care home kitchens can cook all day, every day. Testing shows if the cleaning interval keeps pace.
Nearby places to Gossops Green
Also in Gossops Green
For landlords and multi-site operators
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Every building has its own written report, so records stay tidy.
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
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. A recent inspection report means you are ready when asked. It’s better to plan the work at a site near Gossops Green than wait for a failure.
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you are not sure what’s needed, call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
Why Gossops Green businesses choose us
- We are fully insured
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
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How the visit works
The first job on site is protection: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. The work on site takes around an hour or two per canopy and duct system, and we clear up before we go. Everything the job in Gossops Green needs is worked out beforehand, from the survey.
- First we book a time that will not disrupt cooking.
- We look over the canopy, plenum, ducts, fan and discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured at set points by WFTT or DTT.
- We photograph the test points and record any sections we cannot reach.
- You get a report with readings, pictures and recommendations.
Getting ready for the visit
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Clear the space around the work
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
Get a fixed quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your photos and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. Then we send a fixed price, before any work starts.