Essex · TR19 inspections and grease testing
TR19 Inspection in Holton St Mary
For TR19 inspection in Holton St Mary, one call is all it takes: survey, fixed quote, work and sign-off. Fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001.
- Sections of duct that cannot be reached
- Kitchens whose menu or hours have changed
- Systems that need surveying before cleaning
Common questions in Holton St Mary
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Holton St Mary?
Food hygiene inspections in Holton St Mary are carried out by Babergh council. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Will you come out to Holton St Mary?
Yes, Holton St Mary is part of our area, however small the site. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Which sectors do you work in?
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.
When should we have our next grease test?
Each report recommends when to test and clean next, based on the readings and how the kitchen is used. A risk assessment based on measured grease should set the interval.
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 it takes a risk-based approach.
Do you survey before quoting?
Yes. Photos often do the job, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
Do you check other contractors’ cleans?
We visit after a clean, take readings at set points and photograph the system. The report flags anything missed.
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 don’t leave it behind.
TR19 inspection in Holton St Mary, done properly
Taking on a kitchen in Holton St Mary with no cleaning records? Start with an inspection. We survey the system, measure the grease and tell you what needs doing, before any cleaning is booked. The work covers insurer audits, deposit thickness tests and post-clean checks, and people most often call us about kitchen extract systems with no recent grease readings and parts of the system left out of past cleans.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
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.
- Where
- Holton St Mary (CO7)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What affects the cost of TR19 inspection
There’s no set price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- What state the system is in
- The scale of the work
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and why the quote is fixed before work begins.
Asking for a quote
There’s no need for technical detail. It helps if you can send:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Any previous report or certificate
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
Want a quote for TR19 inspection? Please call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with a few details about the site. We’ll explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before anything is booked.
For landlords and multi-site operators
If you look after several sites, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and photos, so records stay tidy.
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
What staff can safely do
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. That is our job.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Signs you need TR19 inspection in Holton St Mary
Grease is fuel. Flames from the range can be pulled into the canopy and travel through the ducts to other parts of the building. Measuring it is the first step to keeping it under control.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- Surveys needed before quoting a full clean
- Kitchen extract systems with no recent grease readings
- Sites with gaps in their extract records
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
For schools such as East Bergholt High School, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
What your quote should include
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Whether a written report and photos are included
How the visit works
Each visit runs to the same pattern: sheeting and protection first, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the TR19 inspection, tidy up and hand over the paperwork. The visit itself takes a morning or less for one kitchen, more where there are several systems. Seeing the system in pictures first means the trip to Holton St Mary can be planned properly.
- The visit is arranged for when the kitchen is not busy.
- Every part of the system is examined, end to end.
- We take WFTT or DTT readings at set points along the system.
- Photos are taken at each point, and access gaps noted.
- The findings go into a report with readings, pictures and a recommended next clean.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Clear the space around the work
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
How to get a quote
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: 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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Leave it or put it right?
A pre-clean survey avoids surprises on the night. Missing access panels, hidden duct runs and awkward fans are found before the cleaners arrive, so the clean covers the whole system. Equipment tucked in a roof space or outbuilding near Holton St Mary rarely gets looked at unless someone books it.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. We give you a fixed price before any work starts, so there are no surprises.
Why Holton St Mary businesses choose us
- Full insurance on every job
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- Fixed quotes, typically within one working day
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations.
How the job changes from site to site
Extract fan and discharge
Grease builds up on the fan blades and inside the housing. We check and test them as part of the inspection.
Horizontal duct runs
Grease settles on the floor of horizontal ducts as the air cools. We test at points along the run through access panels.
Grease, kitchens and Holton St Mary
The fire and rescue service for Holton St Mary is Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. We cover Holton St Mary, about 58 miles from central London, as part of our work across London and the South East. The visit is fixed around your opening hours, not ours.
Historic houses near Holton St Mary, such as Castle House about 2.9 miles south, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Holton St Mary, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Holton St Mary is in Essex. Wherever you are in the CO7 postcode area, we cover TR19 inspection for commercial sites. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, and Holton St Mary is one of them. You can also see our page for Chelmsford, roughly 28 miles from Holton St Mary.
Every address in CO7 is within our area for TR19 inspection, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Local streets include Hadleigh Road and Rose Acre, and we cover them all for TR19 inspection. If your site is just outside Holton St Mary, we cover Higham (2 miles south-west), Stratford St Mary (2 miles south-west), Dedham (3 miles south), Withermarsh Green (3 miles west) and Thorington Street (3 miles west). We also work in nearby towns such as Colchester (8 miles south-west), Clacton-on-Sea (15 miles south-east), Harwich (12 miles east), Camulodunum (9 miles south-west), Greenstead (8 miles south) and Wivenhoe (9 miles south).
Near you in Holton St Mary
Holton St Mary’s nearest station is Manningtree station, about 3.6 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are The Munnings Museum (2.9 miles south) and Little Wenham Castle (1.9 miles north-east). Open spaces near Holton St Mary include Cattawade Marshes.