East Sussex · TR19 inspections and grease testing
Hadlow Down TR19 inspection
Specialist TR19 inspection for Hadlow Down: diagnosis first, then a fixed quote, the work and a report with photos. Call for a fixed quote.
- Insurers asking for TR19 evidence
- Extracts that have never been grease tested
- Confirming a clean reached the whole system
Hadlow Down: your questions answered
Do you work overnight in Hadlow Down?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. It means the site in Hadlow Down keeps running as normal. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Do you cover smaller places like Hadlow Down?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line and we will talk you through the next steps.
What’s TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked and expects a risk-based approach.
Why survey before a clean?
It’s a look at the whole extract before it’s cleaned, with readings and pictures. The survey can be done from pictures and details or on site, whichever suits the system.
Can you price the work without visiting?
Typically, yes. Send wide shots, close-ups of any access panels and anything that worries you, and a fixed quote typically follows within one working day. If photos aren’t enough, we’ll survey first.
Can you inspect our extract for our insurance company?
Yes. We inspect the system and produce a report with grease readings, photos and any inaccessible areas. You can pass it straight to your insurer or broker.
What should I send you?
Some photos and a quick description of the system plus the address and your hours. If we need more, we’ll ask.
TR19 inspection in Hadlow Down, done properly
BESA sets minimum cleaning intervals by daily use: heavy use (12 to 16 hours a day) every 3 months, moderate use (6 to 12 hours) every 6 months and light use (2 to 6 hours) every 12 months. Grease testing shows whether your kitchen needs cleaning more often than that. The work covers deposit thickness tests, pre-clean surveys and insurer audits, and common reasons people get in touch are ductwork where grease may be over the TR19 limits and kitchens taken over with no cleaning records.
In a village or hamlet like Hadlow Down, 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.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we’re fully insured.
- Place
- Hadlow Down (TN22)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
We look over the canopy, inside and out, with readings where grease collects.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Hospital and care home kitchens can cook all day, every day. Testing shows if the cleaning interval keeps pace.
Fixed quotes for TR19 inspection in Hadlow Down
There’s no set price list, because sites vary so much. What we look at:
- The condition of the system
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- Any permits to work or inductions
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is can all change the price. Each of those is built into the quote, and the price is fixed before we start.
What to send for a quote
We can often survey from pictures. The most useful are:
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Problems your staff have spotted
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Also near Hadlow Down
What else we do in Hadlow Down
What your team can do, and what needs us
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
Staff cleaning does not replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
For landlords and multi-site operators
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. 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.
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
TR19 inspection in Hadlow Down: the local picture
Food hygiene inspections in Hadlow Down are the job of Wealden council’s environmental health team. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Hadlow Down is about 37 miles from central London, well within the area we cover across London and the South East. Evening, overnight and weekend visits are all possible.
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near St Mark's Church or elsewhere in Hadlow Down, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event. Bursars and site managers at schools such as St Mark's Church of England Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Crowborough War Memorial Hospital is the nearest hospital to Hadlow Down, about 3.8 miles north.
Hadlow Down is about 4 miles south of Crowborough, in East Sussex. Hadlow Down gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with photos. Hadlow Down is one of 289 places in East Sussex where we work for commercial clients. There’s also a page for Brighton, about 18 miles away.
Here we cover the TN22 postcode area for TR19 inspection. You’ll find streets such as Waghorns Lane, School Lane and St Marks Field, all of which we cover for TR19 inspection. We also cover Etchingwood (2 miles south-west), Buxted (2 miles west), Potter's Green (2 miles south-west), Blackboys (2 miles south) and Framfield (3 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Eastbourne (15 miles south), Lewes (11 miles south-west), Hailsham (10 miles south), Crowborough (4 miles north), Uckfield (4 miles south-west) and Newhaven (15 miles south).
Near you in Hadlow Down
The nearest railway station is Buxted station, roughly 2.1 miles west of the centre. A little further out are Crowborough War Memorial Hospital (3.8 miles north) and Tickerage Castle (2.3 miles south-west). Not far away are Selwyns Wood.
How it works
Your staff do not need to do much on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and the rest is down to us. Afterwards, the area is left tidy and the written report follows. A quick note on how to find the site and where to park makes a visit to Hadlow Down run smoothly.
- After the clean, we arrange a time to check the system.
- The same access points are opened up.
- Grease readings are taken again at set points.
- Photos are taken to show the condition after the clean.
- We report the findings and flag any areas that need more work.
How to prepare
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
Ask for a quote
Here’s what helps us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, pictures of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Related advice
When something else is needed
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so these are the things it will not cover:
- A faulty or failing extract fan
- The responsible person’s own fire risk assessment
- Installation problems, which fall under design guidance such as DW172
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will say what we think.
Where we work
- Deposit thickness tests
- Wet film thickness tests
- Insurer audits
- Pre-clean surveys
- Post-clean checks
- Access surveys
Leave it or put it right?
Skipping grease testing leaves the cleaning interval to guesswork. Any reading of 500 microns or more needs immediate spot cleaning under TR19® Grease, and you can only act on that if you’ve measured it. Rural sites cannot always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
No two sites are the same, so each one gets its own fixed quote. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all play a part.
What you get with us
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- We diagnose before we treat