East Sussex · Grease trap cleaning
Grease Trap Cleaning in Dukes Green
One call covers grease trap cleaning in Dukes Green, from survey to sign-off. Fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001.
- A kitchen drain that smells
- A small trap that fills too quickly
- Drains that gurgle and bubble
Your questions about grease trap cleaning in Dukes Green
Can you work in Dukes Green outside opening hours?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The site is handed back ready to open. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Do you cover smaller places like Dukes Green?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
It depends on the building. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, an FM or a managing agent.
What happens if you cannot reach some of it?
The report shows them clearly. Often the fix is extra access, such as new panels in ductwork, and we can fit those.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. If something urgent happens, like a fan failing or damage after a fire, call our 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.
What types of premises do you cover?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. We fit the work around how the site operates.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. TR19® itself isn’t law; it’s a BESA specification. The legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19® is the benchmark for showing that grease in the extract is under control.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and we’ll quote them together.
Grease trap cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Dukes Green
Fats, oils and grease are the main cause of blocked kitchen drains. Further on, grease can build into fatbergs in the sewer. A grease trap that’s emptied and cleaned regularly holds them back. The work covers inline grease traps, pot wash sinks and restaurants and takeaways, and the jobs we see most are a larger grease trap that needs emptying and a small trap that fills too quickly.
Somewhere as small as Dukes Green, the kitchens that need a deep clean are typically a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Wherever there is one, it needs its grease trap and hard-to-reach areas kept clean.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with photos, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Place
- Dukes Green (BN26)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Paperwork
- Photo report after each visit
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
What affects the cost of grease trap cleaning
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We look at:
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- How many systems or sites are involved
- The scale of the work
- What state the system is in
One small site or a whole estate, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. You will have a fixed price before work begins.
Helping us quote
We can often survey from photos. The most useful are:
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- A few general shots of the system
To get a fixed quote, give us a ring on 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.
Leave it or put it right?
Once the trap is full, grease heads for the drain. There it sets and narrows the pipe, until the drain blocks. Regular trap cleaning beats dealing with a blockage. Systems in rural buildings are often out of sight and out of mind.
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 play a part.
Why Dukes Green businesses choose us
- Full insurance on every job
- We diagnose before we treat
- Trading since 2009
- Each visit written up, with photos
Aftercare tips
Here’s the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Wipe grease off pans before washing them
- Mention any increase in cooking
- Report slow or smelly sinks early
- Use strainers in the sink plugholes
You will get our view on how often the trap needs cleaning. That depends on how quickly it filled and how busy the kitchen is.
Grease that gets past the trap sets in the drains. Once it’s there, it needs a drainage contractor to clear, so it’s far better to keep the trap clean.
What happens on the day
The visit has three parts: 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 photos. The middle part takes longest, which takes anything from under an hour to a few hours, depending on the trap. A quick note on how to find the site and where to park makes a visit to Dukes Green run smoothly.
- First, we locate the grease trap and look at the pipework around it.
- The sinks feeding the trap are kept out of use while we work.
- Built-up fat, oil and grease is removed from the trap.
- Every part of the trap is scraped and cleaned, including the baffles.
- The trap is reassembled, checked for leaks and the waste taken away.
How to prepare
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
How to get 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. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
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What grease trap cleaning cannot fix
Not every problem is solved by grease trap cleaning, and we’ll tell you before we start. It won’t put right:
- Plumbing leaks around the sink
- Blockages further down the drainage network
- Drains that need jetting rather than trap cleaning
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will tell you honestly.
Parts of the system we cover
- School and care home kitchens
- Inline grease traps
- Restaurants and takeaways
- Pot wash sinks
- Under-sink grease traps
- Kitchen waste pipes
Grease trap cleaning in Dukes Green: local notes
Food Standards Agency records list about 8 restaurants, cafés and works canteens across Dukes Green and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Fat from washing up sets hard in pipes, and kitchens like these produce plenty of it. Kitchens in Dukes Green get their food hygiene inspections from Wealden council. They look at the cleanliness of the whole kitchen: walls, floors, ceilings and equipment. Photos and dates from each deep clean make a useful record.
Hall and church kitchens, near The Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel or anywhere around Dukes Green, are used by many hands, and periodic deep cleans and grease trap visits keep them in order. Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital (about 3.8 miles west), cook for long hours, so deep cleans and grease trap work are planned around patients’ meals. School kitchens, at schools like Alfriston School for example, normally have their deep cleans and grease trap work done while the canteen is closed.
Dukes Green is about 3 miles north-east of Seaford, in East Sussex. Every kind of commercial site in Dukes Green, we can take on grease trap cleaning. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. Dukes Green is one of 289 towns, villages and districts in East Sussex where we work for commercial clients. We also work in Brighton, about 13 miles from Dukes Green.
Here we cover the BN26 postcode area for grease trap cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for grease trap cleaning include Lullington (1 mile north-east), Alfriston (1 mile north), Winton (1 mile north), Milton Street (1 mile north-east) and Alciston (2 miles north). We also work in nearby towns such as Eastbourne (6 miles east), Bexhill-on-Sea (14 miles east), Seaford (3 miles south-west), Lewes (8 miles north-west), Hailsham (6 miles north-east) and Uckfield (12 miles north).
Local landmarks in Dukes Green
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Dean's Place Hotel and the streets around them. Dukes Green’s nearest station is Berwick (Sussex) station, about 2.8 miles north of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital (3.8 miles west) and Arlington Castle (1.2 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Firle Beacon.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Dukes Green
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Every visit ends with a dated report and photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and pictures, so each one has its own record.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.