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Hatch End TR19 inspection
TR19 inspection for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Hatch End. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Insurance renewals needing proof of TR19 cleaning
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
- Sections of duct that cannot be reached
Common questions in Hatch End
Which council inspects kitchens in Hatch End?
In Hatch End, it’s Harrow council that carries out food hygiene inspections. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Does London parking affect a job in Hatch End?
Tell us where a van can stop near your site in Hatch End, and about any building rules on loading. If the building has a loading slot system, we’ll book into it.
Do you work out of hours?
Yes. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote and we’ll book around them.
What’s TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification, with two parts that matter most here: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark.
What should I send you?
A short description and a few photos, with the address and opening hours. If we need more, we’ll ask.
How do you protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before we start, and waste is contained as we go. At the end, the area is cleaned down.
Why survey before a clean?
The survey covers the whole system, grease readings and access to each section. From it, we plan the clean and quote a fixed price.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, 24/7. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and the emergency line covers the rest.
TR19 inspection in Hatch End, done properly
TR19® Grease says grease should not exceed a mean of 200 microns between cleans, while a reading of 500 microns or more anywhere calls for immediate spot cleaning. Testing is how you know where your system stands. If you’re dealing with confirming a clean reached the whole system and kitchen extract systems with no recent grease readings, we can help, from deposit thickness tests, pre-clean surveys and post-clean checks onwards.
In a London area like Hatch End, a kitchen extract often passes through shared space on its way out: a riser, a service void, the floors above. Grease in a duct like that is a fire risk to the whole building, not just the kitchen, which is why keeping it clean to TR19® matters.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: a dated account with pictures of everything we did. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Where
- Hatch End (HA5, HA2, HA3)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We’ll take a look and send you a fixed quote.
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.
Why act early in Hatch End
Sites in Hatch End 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 London building, a problem in a duct, damper or fan rarely stays in one unit.
Every site is different, so we price each one individually. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all make a difference.
Why book with us
- Fully insured
- In business since 2009
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- We diagnose before we treat
What affects the quote in Hatch End
We do not publish a price list, because sites vary so much. What we look at:
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- The scale of the work
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- The number of sites or systems
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before any work starts.
Asking for a quote
What to send for a quote:
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- A few general shots of the system
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before any work starts.
TR19 inspection around Hatch End
The Food Standards Agency lists about 15 pubs and bars as registered food businesses within about 1.5 miles of central Hatch End. A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. In Hatch End, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Harrow council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Most London extract cleaning happens at night, after the last service.
If you cook for passing trade around Hatch End station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Pinner Park Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Hatch End is about 4 miles south of Watford, in Greater London. From the centre of Hatch End to the outskirts, we cover TR19 inspection for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, Hatch End among them. You can also see our page for London, roughly 14 miles from Hatch End.
Our technicians cover all of the HA5, HA2 and HA3 postcode area for TR19 inspection and the streets around it. TR19 inspection is available to premises on Love Lane, Moss Lane and Tudor Road and the roads around them. We also cover the places around Hatch End: Headstone (1 mile east), South Oxhey (2 miles north-west), Harrow Weald (2 miles east), Carpenders Park (2 miles north) and Belmont (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include London (14 miles south-east), City of Westminster (11 miles south-east), Marylebone (11 miles south-east), Kensington (10 miles south-east), St Pancras (12 miles south-east) and Shoreditch (14 miles east).
Local landmarks in Hatch End
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Moon & Sixpence pub, Nower Hill High School and Headstone Manor Recreation Ground, among other places. The nearest railway station is Hatch End station, about 0.6 miles north of the centre. Nearby you will also find Heath Robinson Museum (0.8 miles south-west) and Hilfield Castle (4 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Harrow Weald Common and Northala Fields.
Common problems we fix in Hatch End
When a site in Hatch End changes owner or cleaning contractor, the records don’t always follow. With no history, the current state of the extract is a guess.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Post-clean verification after another contractor’s clean
- Sections of duct that can’t be reached
- Kitchens taken over with no cleaning records
- Extracts that may be over the 200 micron mean
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Northwood and Pinner Cottage Hospital is the nearest hospital to Hatch End, about 1.7 miles west.
Comparing quotes
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- What paperwork you get at the end
- Whether a survey comes first
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
What happens on the day
We turn up at the time agreed with you, often in the evening, overnight or at the weekend so the site keeps working. Equipment that has to be off is switched off and allowed to cool first, and floors and nearby surfaces are sheeted. On site, it takes anything from an hour for a small canopy and short duct to a good part of a day for a large site. Expect the work in Hatch End to happen after your last customer leaves, not during trading.
- We go through any past certificates and reports.
- We follow the extract from canopy to discharge.
- We note where access panels are and where more are needed.
- We measure the grease and photograph each point.
- We report back with readings and a fixed quote.
Preparing for the visit
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
How to get a quote
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you will typically have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
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Multi-site and managed buildings
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
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.
How the job changes from site to site
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Hospital and care home kitchens can cook all day, every day. Testing shows if the cleaning interval keeps pace.
Horizontal duct runs
If a run has no access panel, we note it so it can be fixed before the clean.