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TR19 inspections and grease testing in Lower Caversham, Reading
TR19 inspections and grease testing for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Lower Caversham. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Kitchen extract systems with no recent grease readings
- Systems that need surveying before cleaning
- Kitchens taken over with no cleaning records
What the work involves, part by part
Extract fan and discharge
A greasy fan works harder and wears faster. The inspection shows whether it needs cleaning now.
Canopy and plenum
Filters can look fine while the plenum behind them is heavily coated. That is why we test behind them.
TR19 inspection for kitchens and businesses in Lower Caversham
Insurance policies often require evidence of TR19® cleaning and inspection. Missing records can lead to a claim being reduced or refused. Our TR19 audits give sites in Lower Caversham and across Reading a clear record of the system’s condition. The work covers post-clean checks, access surveys and insurer audits, and common reasons people get in touch are post-clean verification after another contractor’s clean and pre-clean surveys before a first TR19 clean.
Kitchens around a place like Lower Caversham are often in older buildings or single-storey extensions, where the duct may cross a roof void or climb an outside wall. Flat runs collect grease and need proper access to clean.
We’ve been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we carry full insurance.
- Location
- Lower Caversham (RG4, RG1)
- Region
- Reading
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
How we price TR19 inspection
You’ll get a fixed price before any work starts. It takes into account:
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Parking and loading at the site
- The size of the system
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. We take each of them into account, and the price is fixed before work begins.
Asking for a quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- Problems your staff have spotted
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
There’s no standard price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, and then send you a fixed quote. To start, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Lower Caversham kitchens: local notes
Food Standards Agency data counts about 268 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 63 takeaways across Lower Caversham and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Kitchens like these cook for very different hours, and grease testing shows which extracts need cleaning soonest. The fire and rescue service for Lower Caversham is Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. Kitchens in Lower Caversham get their food hygiene inspections from Reading 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.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as St Anne's Catholic Primary School or anywhere near Lower Caversham, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Royal Berkshire Hospital about 1 mile south, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. A kitchen near Reading station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval.
Lower Caversham is about 1 mile south of Caversham, in Reading. Whatever kind of site you run in Lower Caversham, TR19 inspection is something we can help with. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. Lower Caversham is one of 34 towns, villages and districts in Reading we cover for commercial clients.
Here we cover the RG4 and RG1 postcode area for TR19 inspection. Local streets include Star Road, Send Road and Mill Road, and we cover them all for TR19 inspection. Other places close to Lower Caversham include Newtown (1 mile south-east), Caversham (1 mile north), Emmer Green (1 mile north), Caversham Park Village (1 mile north) and Reading (1 mile south-west). Further out, we also cover Norcot (3 miles west), Tilehurst Within (3 miles west), Shinfield (4 miles south), Arborfield Garrison (6 miles south-east), Horncastle (3 miles south-west) and Whitley Wood (3 miles south).
What’s near Lower Caversham
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Kendrick School, The Red Cow Public House and Eldon Square and the streets around them. You’ll also find Chiltern Nursery Nurse Training School (0.7 miles north-west) and University of Reading library (1.8 miles south). For rail, the closest station is Reading station, about 0.7 miles south-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Royal Berkshire Hospital (1 mile south) and Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre Museum (0.9 miles south). Open spaces near Lower Caversham include Sonning Hill and South Lake.
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Lower Caversham: your questions answered
Which council inspects kitchens in Lower Caversham?
Food hygiene inspections in Lower Caversham are carried out by Reading council. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Who is the fire and rescue service for Lower Caversham?
It’s Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Lower Caversham. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
What grease levels does TR19 allow?
TR19® Grease says grease should not go over a mean of 200 microns between cleans. Any reading of 500 microns or more needs immediate spot cleaning.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. Every job is surveyed first, from your pictures and details, or with a visit where needed. A fixed quote follows.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we’ll advise on what to do next.
What is 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 work with multi-site operators?
Yes. You deal with one contact for every site across London and the South East, with visits on a regular schedule.
What does TR19 inspection cost?
It depends on the site, so we quote each one individually. For a quote, ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with the site type, opening hours and a few photos.
Keeping the system healthy
Here’s the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep the route to access panels clear
- Keep TR19 certificates, readings and reports together
- Have the latest report ready for insurance renewals
- Keep canopy edges and gutters wiped down
After the inspection, we send a report showing each reading, its location and photos. File it alongside your TR19 certificates.
When cooking hours or the menu change, check the interval still fits. A quick grease test answers the question.
What a clean will not put right
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- Mechanical faults in the extract
- Hidden runs that need access panels first
- Fire safety duties beyond the extract system
If in doubt, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will say what we think before booking.
Where we work
- Wet film thickness tests
- Access surveys
- Deposit thickness tests
- Post-clean checks
- Pre-clean surveys
- Insurer audits
What we do, step by step
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and it goes on the report too. All told, the work takes a couple of hours for a typical kitchen extract system. Evenings, weekends or a closed day all work for a site in a place like Lower Caversham.
- After the clean, we arrange a time to check the system.
- We open the access points used on the clean.
- Grease readings are taken again at set points.
- We photograph each area to record how it was left.
- The results are reported, with anything missed flagged.
Preparing for the visit
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
Get a fixed quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before work begins.
Advice
Multi-site and managed buildings
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Leave it or put it right?
A check after cleaning shows whether the work reached every part it should have, before the next clean is due. In a smaller place like Lower Caversham, a site that has to close is felt quickly.
No two sites are the same, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all make a difference.
Why book with us
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001