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TR19 inspections and grease testing in St Leonards, Hampshire
Professional TR19 inspection in and around St Leonards, timed so the site keeps working and finished with a written report and photos.
- An insurer’s request for a TR19 audit
- Uncertainty over how often to clean
- Extracts that have never been grease tested
How we handle TR19 inspection in St Leonards
Taking on a kitchen in St Leonards with no cleaning records? Start with an inspection. We survey the system, measure the grease and tell you what needs doing, so the next step is based on facts. The work covers insurer audits, deposit thickness tests and post-clean checks, and common reasons people get in touch are systems cleaned on a calendar with no measurements and pre-clean surveys before a first TR19 clean.
Size does not change the work: a kitchen in a place like St Leonards gets the whole system cleaned, canopy to discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. So every job comes with a written report and photos, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Place
- St Leonards (BH24)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Part by part
Canopy and plenum
Filters can look fine while the plenum behind them is heavily coated. That is why we test behind them.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels
BESA’s minimum for heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day is a clean every 3 months, with testing showing whether more is needed.
FAQs for St Leonards
Which council inspects kitchens in St Leonards?
In St Leonards, it’s New Forest council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Can you get to a site in St Leonards?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. A survey first, from photos or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Can the work be done while we’re closed?
Yes, and that’s how we prefer to work. We book the visit for when the area is out of use, whether that’s late evening, overnight or a weekend.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes, any time. 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.
Are you accredited?
We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we are fully insured.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Plans on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycle are available, depending on what the system needs.
What does a pre-clean survey involve?
The survey covers the whole system, grease readings and access to each section. It lets us plan the clean and give you a fixed quote.
What do the grease readings need to be?
TR19® Grease says grease should not go over a mean of 200 microns between cleans. 500 microns or more at any point calls for immediate spot cleaning.
Looking after it afterwards
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Never cook with filters missing
- File every inspection report with your certificates
- Report grease dripping from the canopy
- Clean grease off the canopy between professional cleans
Keep the verification report next to the certificate it relates to. Together they show the system was cleaned and checked.
When cooking hours or the menu change, check the interval still fits. Fresh readings show whether it needs to change.
Multi-site and managed buildings
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in St Leonards and across Hampshire. Larger estates can be phased building by building around the people who use them.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We’re happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
Common problems we fix in St Leonards
Looking at a canopy tells you little about what’s in the duct. A system can look clean at the filters and be heavily coated further in, which is why readings matter.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Uncertainty over how often to clean
- Confirming a clean reached the whole system
- Pre-clean surveys before a first TR19 clean
- Missing access panels found on survey
A hospital like St Leonard's Hospital, about 0.9 miles south-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
What your quote should include
- Whether the price is fixed
- What insurance they carry
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- Whether they recommend a next date
TR19 inspection in St Leonards: the local picture
The fire and rescue service for St Leonards is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises. Food hygiene inspections in St Leonards are the job of New Forest council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
Church and community hall kitchens, near All Saints or anywhere around St Leonards, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. Bursars and site managers at schools such as St Ives Primary & Nursery School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
St Leonards is in Hampshire. St Leonards gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Our Hampshire coverage runs to 683 places, St Leonards among them. You can also see our page for Southampton, roughly 21 miles from St Leonards.
Here we cover the BH24 postcode area for TR19 inspection. Local streets include Cedar Avenue, Birch Close and Malmesbury Road, and we cover them all for TR19 inspection. Neighbouring places we cover for TR19 inspection include Ashley Heath (1 mile north), St Ives (1 mile north-east), Matchams (1 mile south-east) and Avon Castle (2 miles east). We also work in nearby towns such as Lymington (14 miles east), New Milton (10 miles south-east), Ringwood (3 miles north-east), Barton on Sea (10 miles south-east), Ashley (10 miles south-east) and Milford on Sea (13 miles south-east).
Around St Leonards
In St Leonards, that means kitchens and buildings near Avon Heath Country Park and the streets around them. Well-known places in the area include St Leonard's Hospital (0.9 miles south-west) and Stapehill Abbey (3.9 miles south-west). Not far away are Linbrook Lake and Blashford Lakes.
What happens on the day
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes a couple of hours for a typical kitchen extract system. Visits to a place like St Leonards are planned ahead, so we arrive with what the survey says the job needs.
- 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.
- Grease readings are taken and photos recorded.
- We report back with readings and a fixed quote.
Before we arrive
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
Ask for a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send pictures: 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.
Advice
Fixed quotes for TR19 inspection in St Leonards
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We check:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- The scale of the work
- Travel, parking and unloading
Putting the work off seldom saves money. Problems in a system tend to grow, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you are unsure, ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form for straight advice and a fixed quote.
What to send for a quote
We can often survey from photos. The most useful are:
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
Some systems can be priced from pictures; others need a survey. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before any work starts.
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Why deal with it now?
Surveying first means the clean goes to plan. Missing access panels, hidden duct runs and awkward fans are found before the cleaners arrive, and the quote reflects the real job. A planned visit to St Leonards fits your hours; an emergency does not.
Every site is different, so we price each one individually. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all play a part.
Why choose Duct Doctor in St Leonards
- We diagnose before we treat
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
See how cleaning jobs are priced and our accreditations and certificates.