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TR19 Inspection in Great Bardfield
Looking for TR19 inspection in Great Bardfield? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, finishing with a written report and pictures.
- Kitchens taken over with no cleaning records
- Post-clean verification after another contractor’s clean
- Ductwork where grease may be over the TR19 limits
Grease, kitchens and Great Bardfield
Food Standards Agency records include about 3 bars, pubs and nightclubs within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Great Bardfield. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Kitchens in Great Bardfield get their food hygiene inspections from Braintree council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Great Bardfield. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Great Bardfield Primary School or anywhere near Great Bardfield, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Great Bardfield is about 7 miles north-west of Braintree, in Essex. Wherever you are in the CM7 postcode area, we cover TR19 inspection for commercial sites. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, Great Bardfield among them. Our Chelmsford page covers sites nearby (15 miles or so).
All of CM7 is within our area for TR19 inspection, from busy streets to back roads. Whether your site is on High Street, The Corniche and Vine Street or anywhere close by, we can help. Close by, we work in Little Bardfield (1 mile west), Finchingfield (1 mile north-east), Bardfield Saling (2 miles south-east), Wethersfield (2 miles east) and Crow's Green (3 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Chelmsford (15 miles south), Braintree (7 miles south-east), Witham (13 miles south-east), Saffron Walden (10 miles north-west), Halstead (9 miles east) and Great Dunmow (6 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Great Bardfield
Around Great Bardfield, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Vine pub. For a walk, there’s West Wood.
TR19 inspection in Great Bardfield, done properly
BESA sets minimum cleaning intervals by daily use: every 3 months for heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day, every 6 months for moderate use of 6 to 12 hours, and every 12 months for light use of 2 to 6 hours. Grease testing shows whether your kitchen needs cleaning more often than that. If you’re dealing with missing access panels found on survey and kitchens taken over with no cleaning records, we can put it right.
For a kitchen in or near Great Bardfield, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
The sign-off is always in writing: a written report, dated and illustrated with photos, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. Any parts we couldn’t reach are recorded on it too.
- Where
- Great Bardfield (CM7)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We cover South East England and London, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Shared systems, like a riser serving several units, need a clear agreement on who books the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
What we’re called out for in Great Bardfield
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.
Common reasons sites call us are:
- Ductwork where grease may be over the TR19 limits
- Kitchens taken over with no cleaning records
- Insurers asking for TR19 evidence
- Parts of the system left out of past cleans
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, or anywhere in Great Bardfield, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Before booking anyone
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- Proof of insurance
- When the next visit should be, and why
When something else is needed
Before booking, it helps to know what’s not included:
- Installation problems, which fall under design guidance such as DW172
- Sections with no access, until panels are fitted
- The responsible person’s own fire risk assessment
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll say what we think.
Where we work
- Post-clean checks
- Pre-clean surveys
- Deposit thickness tests
- Insurer audits
- Access surveys
- Wet film thickness tests
Common questions in Great Bardfield
Which fire authority looks after Great Bardfield?
Fire safety enforcement in Great Bardfield is handled by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can you work in Great Bardfield outside opening hours?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. That way a site in Great Bardfield does not have to lose a day’s trading. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
What is grease thickness testing?
Grease thickness testing measures the layer of grease on the duct surfaces, by WFTT or DTT. The results are given in microns.
How often should a kitchen extract be inspected?
It depends on how heavily the kitchen cooks. BESA sets minimum cleaning intervals of 3, 6 or 12 months by daily use, and testing shows if your kitchen needs more.
What types of premises do you cover?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. We fit the work around how the site operates.
What does a pre-clean survey involve?
We check the layout, the grease levels and the access, before anyone starts cleaning. Any access problems are flagged so they can be sorted first.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. We always survey first, from your photos and details, or with a visit where needed. A fixed quote follows.
What do you do with what you remove?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, including grease, debris and dirty water. None of it is left on site.
What we do, step by step
There are three stages on the day: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, and the sign-off is a written report with photos. The middle part takes longest, and that takes a couple of hours for a typical kitchen extract system. The timing of a visit to Great Bardfield is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- 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.
- You get a report with readings, photos and recommendations.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
How to get a quote
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, a few photos and any previous report or certificate. Once you have those, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.
Related advice
Why act early in Great Bardfield
Sites in Great Bardfield that have never measured grease cannot tell whether their cleaning interval suits the kitchen. Measured readings let a competent person set the interval. In a small place like Great Bardfield, a system that fails can take a site out of use.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and why the quote is fixed before any work starts.
Why Great Bardfield businesses choose us
- We are fully insured
- Fixed quotes, usually within one working day
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
Read how cleaning jobs are priced or our accreditations and certificates.
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What the work involves, part by part
Vertical risers
In buildings with several floors, the riser may pass through other tenants’ space, so access is planned in advance.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Education kitchens need TR19 inspections like any other. Readings show if the interval is right.