Kent · Grease trap cleaning
Grease trap cleaning in Charing, Kent
Grease trap cleaning across Charing and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with pictures.
- An inline trap or interceptor due for cleaning
- A slow-draining kitchen sink
- Gurgling from the sink waste
What your team can do, and what needs us
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. 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.
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, next to our reports.
Grease trap cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Charing
Grease trap cleaning keeps the drains running and the smells away. We empty the built-up grease and food solids and the chambers and baffles cleaned, and check the trap is working properly. We’re often asked to deal with drains that gurgle and bubble and a slow-draining kitchen sink, on under-sink grease traps, school and care home kitchens and pot wash sinks.
Work in a smaller place like Charing is planned around your opening hours, and the journey is planned ahead.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with photos, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Where
- Charing (TN27)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Reporting
- Photo report after each visit
- Quote
- A fixed price before we start
- Working hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What happens if it’s left?
For a kitchen in Charing, a regular grease trap clean is a small, planned job. Waiting for a blockage turns it into an urgent problem and normally at the worst moment. It’s better to plan the work at a site near Charing than wait for a failure.
We don’t list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. Call for a fixed quote, and we will talk you through it.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Charing
- Fully insured
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Each visit written up, with pictures
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
Take a look at what affects the cost and how to check a contractor.
What grease trap cleaning looks like in Charing
Food Standards Agency records list about 6 restaurants, cafés and works canteens in Charing and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Fat from washing up sets hard in pipes, and kitchens like these produce plenty of it. Food hygiene inspections in Charing are the job of Ashford council’s environmental health team. The state of floors, drains and hard-to-reach corners all feeds into the inspection. A cleaning log that includes deep cleans and grease trap visits shows the work is planned.
For a café close to Charing station, a deep clean can be done between closing and the morning rush. Where a church or community hall near Church of St Peter and St Paul, or anywhere in Charing, has a kitchen used by volunteers, a periodic deep clean keeps it ready for the next event. Godinton House, about 3.9 miles south-east, is one of the historic houses around Charing; event kitchens at places like that work in bursts, so a deep clean after a busy season helps.
Charing is about 6 miles north-west of Ashford, in Kent. For grease trap cleaning in and around Charing, please ring 0345 646 2711 or email us for a fixed quote. We work across South East England and London, Charing included. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Charing among them. Maidstone is in our area too, about 12 miles from Charing.
We work across the TN27 postcode area for grease trap cleaning and the roads nearby. Whether your site is on The High Street, Market Place and Station Road or a nearby road, we can help. Neighbouring places we cover for grease trap cleaning include Charing Heath (1 mile west), Cold Harbour (2 miles north-west), Lenham Heath (2 miles west), Stonebridge Green (2 miles west) and Lenham Forstal (3 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (12 miles west), Ashford (6 miles south-east), Canterbury (13 miles east), Sittingbourne (9 miles north), Whitstable (14 miles north-east) and Faversham (8 miles north-east).
What’s near Charing
Typical jobs here are in premises near Spuckles and Kennelling Woods and King's Head Public House, among other places. Charing has its own railway station: Charing station. Well-known places in the area include Coldbridge Castle (4.3 miles west).
How the visit works
There are three stages on the day: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, and the sign-off is a written report with pictures. The middle part takes longest, which takes less than an hour for many under-sink units. Your opening hours decide when we come to Charing, not ours.
- We start by finding the trap and checking its inlet and outlet.
- Nothing drains into the trap while it’s open.
- Built-up fat, oil and grease is removed from the trap.
- The inside, baffles and pipe connections are cleaned.
- Once it’s refitted, water is run through to check it drains, and we take the waste with us.
How to prepare
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
Ask for a quote
For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos 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 typically come back within one working day.
Related advice
Multi-site and managed buildings
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We’re happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
FAQs for Charing
Can school kitchens in Charing be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. Around Charing, the Food Standards Agency lists about 4 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Tell us your holiday dates and we will book the visit for when the site is empty.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Charing?
Kitchens in Charing are inspected by Ashford council’s environmental health officers. Photos from a deep clean are a simple record of what was done and when.
What do you do with what you remove?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, including grease, debris and dirty water. We don’t leave it behind.
What paperwork should we keep on file?
Each report and certificate we give you, filed in the maintenance log, along with your own cleaning log. BESA advises that certificates record the date, location and technician.
What’s TR19?
A BESA specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It is not legislation, but it’s the standard people check against.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes, always. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey shows what needs doing and what access we need, and the quote is based on that.
Do you have insurance?
Yes, fully. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor, for sites that check contractor safety.
What accreditations do you have?
Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The Vent Hygiene Elite scheme is run by BESCA and audited independently.
Also near Charing
Other services in Charing
Part by part
School, care home and staff kitchens
In schools, grease traps can be cleaned when the kitchen is closed or after lunch service.
Inline grease traps
An inline trap sits in the pipework between the kitchen and the drain. They’re larger than under-sink traps but still fill up.
How we price grease trap cleaning
The diagnosis comes before the price. The main factors are:
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- How big the system is
- What state the system is in
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before we start.
Helping us quote
What to send for a quote:
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- The postcode and the type of business
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
Getting a quote does not take long. Call or email with a few details and you will normally have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Keeping the system healthy
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Do not rely on hot water to clear grease
- Wipe grease off pans before washing them
- Book trap cleans at a set interval
- Keep strainers in every sink
You’ll get our view on how often the trap needs cleaning. That depends on how quickly it filled and how much the kitchen cooks.
Fat that escapes the trap hardens in the pipework. Once it’s there, it needs a drainage contractor to clear so prevention is the easier route.