London and the South East

Grease Trap Cleaning in Kent

Wherever you are in Kent, our technicians can help with grease trap cleaning. Fixed quotes up front, and a 24/7 emergency line.

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Where we work in Kent

Emptying and cleaning of under-sink and inline grease traps in commercial kitchens. Pick your town below to see the details for your area, or get in touch for a quick quote.

Largest places

How grease trap cleaning works in Kent

If the sinks drain slowly or smell, the trap is often the cause. In Kent, as everywhere we work, our team empties and cleans the trap and run water through to check it drains. The work covers kitchen waste pipes, pot wash sinks and under-sink grease traps, and people most often call us about an under-sink trap that keeps filling up and drains that gurgle and bubble.

Night work is normal for us. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so the site can open as normal afterwards. The visit itself takes an hour or so for an under-sink trap, longer for a larger unit.

We locate the trap and check how it’s fitted.
Sinks feeding the trap are taken out of use.
We empty out the fat, oil, grease and solids.
We clean every part of the inside.
We refit it, run water through and remove the waste.

How we quote

Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll explain each part.

What you get with us

A fixed price before any work starts
Survey first, then a fixed quote
Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
In business since 2009

Ask for a quote

Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.

Around Maidstone

Typical jobs here are in premises near Paper Makers Arms, Maidstone Grammar School and St Philip's Church. Nearby too are River Len LNR (under half a mile north-east), South Borough Primary School (within half a mile south) and St Augustine Academy (1.2 miles west). The nearest railway station is Maidstone West station, roughly 0.6 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Maidstone Carriage Museum (less than half a mile north-west) and Oakwood Hospital (1.8 miles west). Green spaces nearby include Burham Down and Boxley Hills.

Grease trap cleaning across Kent: local notes

Kitchens across Kent are inspected by their council’s environmental health officers, and the cleanliness of the whole kitchen, drains included, is part of that.

In England, the Fire Safety Order puts the duty on the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and each certificate and photo report is a record you can keep in your log book. In the coastal parts of Kent, salt air and damp are hard on ductwork, fans and dampers, and corrosion is one of the things that can stop a fire damper closing.

Maidstone: Half-term is a good time for school kitchens, at schools like South Borough Primary School for instance, to have the grease trap emptied and the kitchen deep cleaned. Oakwood Hospital, about 1.8 miles west, is the nearest hospital to Maidstone; healthcare kitchens cannot stop cooking, so deep cleans are worked around meal times.

Looking after it afterwards

To keep the system working properly between visits:

Avoid pouring boiling water down to shift grease
Fit sink strainers to catch food scraps
Don’t store things on top of the trap
Tell us when sinks start draining slowly

Anything we notice beyond the trap, like a slow drain downstream, is pointed out. It may need a drainage specialist to investigate.

Grease that gets past the trap sets in the drains. Clearing it then is a bigger job, so it’s far better to keep the trap clean.

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We can diagnose it and quote.

Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that is where we come in.

When it’s something else

An honest diagnosis matters more to us than a booking, so here’s what this work cannot put right:

Grease set hard in the drain run
A unit that can’t cope with the kitchen’s output
Blockages in the public sewer beyond the property

Fixed quotes for grease trap cleaning in Kent

There’s no set price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:

When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
Travel, parking and unloading
What state the system is in
One-off work versus a regular cycle

We do not list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. Call for a fixed quote, and we’ll explain what it covers.

Helping us quote

You do not need the technical terms. It helps if you can send:

Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
The postcode and the type of business

Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.

Multi-site and managed buildings

Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.

We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we will come back with a fixed quote.

FAQs for Kent

What do you do with what you remove?

It leaves the site with us when we go. During the work, it’s contained so the area stays clean.

Which accreditations do you hold?

Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, alongside BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Vent Hygiene Elite is run by BESCA and independently audited.

Do you have insurance?

Yes, fully. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor, for sites that check contractor safety.

Do you cover Kent?

Yes. We work in Kent, as part of our work across South East England and London. For a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.

Do you deal with blocked drains beyond the grease trap?

That depends on the cause. If the trap is full, cleaning it often helps, but blockages further along need a drainage contractor.

What do you do with the waste?

We take it away. There’s nothing left for your team to deal with once the clean is done.

Can one contract cover all our sites?

Yes. We work across South East England and London, so we can schedule a run of sites as one programme. Every site has its own report.