Oxfordshire · Grease trap cleaning
Great Tew grease trap cleaning
We cover Great Tew for grease trap cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- A grease trap that hasn’t been emptied in a long time
- Grease setting in the kitchen pipework
- An inline trap or interceptor due for cleaning
Part by part
Restaurant and takeaway kitchens
We time visits to avoid service so the kitchen isn’t disrupted.
School, care home and staff kitchens
School kitchens can be cleaned in the holidays or between meal services.
Grease trap cleaning in Great Tew
We clean grease traps for kitchens in Great Tew, from small under-sink units to inline traps and interceptors. Visits are booked around your service, so the kitchen keeps running. The work covers kitchen waste pipes, inline grease traps and pot wash sinks, and common reasons people get in touch are an overdue grease trap and drains clogged with fat.
Rural kitchens may drain to a septic tank or a private drain rather than straight into a public sewer, and fat getting past a grease trap can cause real trouble there.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with pictures, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Great Tew (OX7)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Photo report after each visit
- Quote
- A fixed price before we start
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How we price grease trap cleaning
We quote each job individually. This is what makes a difference:
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- Travel, parking and unloading
- A single visit or a regular plan
- The times the site is available
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we’ll go through it with you.
Asking for a quote
Many jobs can be priced from photos and some basics. Useful things to send:
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- A few general shots of the system
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Problems your staff have spotted
Need a price for grease trap cleaning? Please call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us about the site. We will talk you through the work and send you a fixed quote before anything is booked.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
What happens on the day
Your trading hours come first. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that is an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes anything from under an hour to a few hours, depending on the trap. Rural roads and tight entrances are worth telling us about before a visit to Great Tew.
- First, we find the trap and look at its connections.
- We make sure nothing drains into the trap.
- We empty out the fat, oil, grease and solids.
- The chambers and baffles are cleaned.
- The trap is refitted, tested with water and the waste taken away.
How to prepare
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Get a fixed quote
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you will typically have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
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Signs you need grease trap cleaning in Great Tew
In Great Tew, as everywhere, grease traps are easy to forget. Tucked away under the sink or below the floor, it’s often ignored until something goes wrong.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- An overdue grease trap
- An under-sink trap that keeps filling up
- Grease setting in the kitchen pipework
- A slow-draining kitchen sink
For schools such as Great Tew County Primary School, deep cleans and grease trap work are usually booked for the holidays.
What your quote should include
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
Managing agents and facilities teams in Great Tew
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare across Oxfordshire. Work can be phased by floor, building or site around the people who use them.
Aftercare tips
Here’s the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Report slow or smelly sinks early
- Don’t rely on hot water to clear grease
- Mention any increase in cooking
- Fit sink strainers to catch food scraps
Scrape plates into the bin before washing up. Sink strainers help catch solids before they reach the trap.
More cooking means more grease in the trap. Shortening the cleaning interval now keeps the drains flowing.
Your questions about grease trap cleaning in Great Tew
Do you clean school kitchens in Great Tew in the summer holidays?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. There are about 2 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Great Tew. Tell us your holiday dates and we will book the visit for when the site is empty.
Can you come to Great Tew after we close?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. It means the site in Great Tew keeps running as normal. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
How regularly does a grease trap need emptying?
It varies. We look at how full the trap is and how quickly it fills and we will advise on timing.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Anything that proves the system is maintained: reports, certificates, photos and your own cleaning or check logs. A single log for each site works best.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not usually. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Do you cover Great Tew?
Yes. Great Tew is part of the area we cover, within the South East and London area we cover.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. Every job is surveyed first, from your pictures and details, or with a visit where necessary. A fixed quote follows.
Grease trap cleaning in Great Tew: local notes
Environmental health officers from West Oxfordshire council inspect food businesses in Great Tew. Grease behind equipment or on a ceiling is the kind of thing an inspection can note. A cleaning log that includes deep cleans and grease trap visits shows the work is planned.
Hall and church kitchens, near Church of St Michael and All Angels or anywhere around Great Tew, are used by many hands, and periodic deep cleans and grease trap visits keep them in order.
Great Tew is about 8 miles south-west of Banbury, in Oxfordshire. Whatever kind of site you run in Great Tew, we can take on grease trap cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Our Oxfordshire coverage runs to 443 places, and Great Tew is one of them. You can also see our page for Oxford, about 17 miles away.
All of OX7 is within our area for grease trap cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Whether your site is on The Square, Old Road and New Road or anywhere close by, we can help. If your site is just outside Great Tew, we cover Little Tew (1 mile south-west), Swerford (2 miles north-west), Wigginton (2 miles north), South Newington (3 miles north) and Church Enstone (3 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Banbury (8 miles north-east), Bicester (12 miles east), Witney (12 miles south), Carterton (15 miles south-west), Kidlington (11 miles south-east) and Bure Park (12 miles east).
What’s near Great Tew
In Great Tew, that means kitchens and buildings near The Falkland Arms Public House and the streets around them. Well-known places in the area include Old Forge Museum (Great Tew) (under half a mile north) and Deddington Castle (4.9 miles east). For a walk, there’s Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool.