East Sussex · TR19 inspections and grease testing
TR19 inspections and grease testing in St Leonards, East Sussex
TR19 inspection for commercial sites in St Leonards and across East Sussex. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Confirming a clean reached the whole system
- Heavy grease suspected in the plenum or ducts
- Missing access panels found on survey
TR19 inspection in St Leonards
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 an insurer’s request for a TR19 audit and post-clean verification after another contractor’s clean, we can help, from wet film thickness tests, access surveys and pre-clean surveys onwards.
In a town like St Leonards, most of the kitchen extracts we’re asked about belong to restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways and school or care home kitchens. Whatever the kitchen, the canopy, filters, duct and fan all collect grease, and each is cleaned to the same TR19® standard.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Place
- St Leonards (TN38, TN37, TN34)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Your questions about TR19 inspection in St Leonards
Can school kitchens in St Leonards be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. Around St Leonards, the Food Standards Agency lists about 5 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Which fire authority looks after St Leonards?
St Leonards is in the area of East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, set at the interval the system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
Do you survey before quoting?
Yes. For many sites, photos and a few details are enough, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
What does TR19 inspection cost?
The cost depends on the size of the system, its condition, access and timing. Ask us for a fixed quote, usually ready within one working day.
At what point does grease need cleaning?
The TR19® Grease figures are a mean of 200 microns or less between cleans, and immediate spot cleaning wherever a reading hits 500 microns. We show your readings against those figures.
What’s TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping, and it takes a risk-based approach.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, 24/7. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
Leave it or put it right?
After an incident, an insurer can ask to see proof of TR19 cleaning and inspection. Missing records can put a claim at risk. Getting an inspection done now starts that paper trail. With a fire risk assessment or inspection due, getting the work done first puts you on the front foot.
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all make a difference.
Why choose Duct Doctor in St Leonards
- Fixed quotes, usually within one working day
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- Photo reports with every job
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
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TR19 inspection around St Leonards
The coast is only about 1 mile from St Leonards. Near the sea, the fan and discharge at the top of a kitchen extract corrode faster than they would inland. Food Standards Agency records list about 198 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 75 sandwich bars and takeaways within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of St Leonards. Kitchens like these cook for very different hours, and grease testing shows which extracts need cleaning soonest. Fire safety in St Leonards falls to East Sussex 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.
Bursars and site managers at schools such as St Leonard's Church of England Primary Academy tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty. Commuter trade near St Leonards Warrior Square station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands.
St Leonards is about 1 mile south-west of Hastings, in East Sussex. Whether your site is in the middle of St Leonards or further out, we cover TR19 inspection for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. Across East Sussex, we cover 289 places, and St Leonards is one of them. Maidstone is in our area too, about 28 miles from St Leonards.
Here we cover the TN38, TN37 and TN34 postcode area for TR19 inspection. Whether your site is on Sea Road, Fern Road and Dane Road or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. Main roads around St Leonards include the A259 and A2102, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. Neighbouring places we cover for TR19 inspection include Silverhill (1 mile north), Hastings (1 mile north-east), America Ground (1 mile east), Bulverhythe (1 mile west) and Hollington (1 mile north). Further out, we also cover Eastbourne (13 miles south-west), Bexhill-on-Sea (4 miles west), Hailsham (13 miles west), Polegate (13 miles west), Old Town (14 miles south-west) and Heathfield (15 miles north-west). St Leonards is among the bigger places we cover in East Sussex for TR19 inspection.
Near you in St Leonards
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to University School, Horse And Groom Public House and Summerfields Wood. St Leonards has its own railway station: St Leonards Warrior Square station. A little further out are Priory Meadow Shopping Centre (1.2 miles east) and Conquest Hospital (2.2 miles north). Open spaces near St Leonards include Church Wood and Robsack Wood and Senlac Hill.
When to call us in St Leonards
Grease in a duct is flammable fuel. Flames from the range can be pulled into the canopy and travel through the ducts to other parts of the building. Knowing how much there is lets you act before it becomes a hazard.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Systems cleaned on a calendar with no measurements
- Extracts that may be over the 200 micron mean
- Sites with gaps in their extract records
- Post-clean verification after another contractor’s clean
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Conquest Hospital (about 2.2 miles north), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether VAT is included
- What hours they’ll be on site
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
What we do, step by step
Everything the job needs comes with us, including protection sheets, the right tools and access kit. You only need to give us clear access and switch off what needs to be off. On site, the work takes a morning or less for one kitchen, more where there are several systems. Let us know how to reach the roof or plant area at your site in St Leonards, and where the van can go.
- First we book a time that will not disrupt cooking.
- Every part of the system is examined, end to end.
- Grease readings are taken at set points using WFTT or DTT.
- We photograph the test points and record any sections we can’t reach.
- The findings go into a report with readings, photos and a recommended next clean.
How to prepare
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
How to get a quote
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or email us and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. We normally come back within one working day.
Related advice
Fixed quotes for TR19 inspection in St Leonards
The diagnosis comes before the price. The main factors are:
- The condition we find in the survey
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- How big the system is
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before we start.
Asking for a quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- A few general shots of the system
- The site address and the type of premises
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
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 many jobs can be priced from that alone.
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
The plenum behind the filters can carry a lot of grease. Readings and photos are taken in the plenum on every 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.
Managing agents and facilities teams in St Leonards
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with photos.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in St Leonards and across East Sussex. Larger estates can be phased building by building around the people who use them.
Between visits
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep TR19 certificates, readings and reports together
- Clean grease off the canopy between professional cleans
- Keep grease filters clean and fitted properly
- Have the latest report ready for insurance renewals
Each report suggests the next clean and the next test, based on the readings and how the kitchen is used.
Clean, correctly fitted filters stop more grease reaching the duct. Gaps around filters let grease get past them.