Surrey · Grease trap cleaning
Grease Trap Cleaning in Hatchford
Grease trap cleaning for commercial sites in Hatchford and across Surrey. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- A kitchen drain that smells
- Drains clogged with fat
- An under-sink unit that needs regular emptying
What we do, step by step
There are three stages on the day: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, and the sign-off is a written report with photos. Most of the time goes on the work itself, and that takes an hour or so for an under-sink trap, longer for a larger unit. For a village or hamlet like Hatchford, tell us about narrow lanes, gates and parking when you book.
- We start by finding the trap and checking its inlet and outlet.
- We ask for the sinks that drain into the trap not to be used.
- The trap is emptied of grease and food waste.
- We clean the chambers, baffles and connections.
- We put it back together, run water through and remove the waste.
Getting ready for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Let us know about parking and loading
Getting a quote
To get a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. We typically come back within one working day.
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About our grease trap cleaning in Hatchford
Grease trap cleaning keeps the drains running and the smells away. The fat, oil, grease and solids are taken out and the chambers and baffles cleaned, and check the trap is working properly. Typical jobs include a larger grease trap that needs emptying and an overdue grease trap, on restaurants and takeaways, inline grease traps and kitchen waste pipes.
In a village or hamlet like Hatchford, commercial kitchens are few, perhaps a pub, a school or a care home. Wherever there is one, it needs its grease trap and hard-to-reach areas kept clean.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. So every job comes with a written report and pictures, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Hatchford (KT11)
- Wider area
- Surrey
- Records
- Photo report after each visit
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Towns and villages near Hatchford
What else we do in Hatchford
Aftercare tips
How long the results last depends on use and care. Here’s what we suggest:
- Keep strainers in every sink
- Keep waste oil out of the drains
- Act on gurgling or smelly drains
- Tell us if your menu or hours change
Once the trap is cleaned and refitted, the sinks can be used straight away. Water is run through to check everything flows before we go.
If the kitchen has got busier, the trap fills faster. Shortening the cleaning interval now keeps the drains flowing.
Hatchford kitchens: local notes
Look up Hatchford on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Hatchford. Fat from washing up sets hard in pipes, and kitchens like these produce plenty of it. Kitchens in Hatchford get their food hygiene inspections from Elmbridge 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.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Woking Community Hospital (about 5.3 miles west), cook for long hours, so deep cleans and grease trap work are planned around patients’ meals. Half-term is a good time for school kitchens, at schools like St Matthew's CofE Aided Infant School for instance, to have the grease trap emptied and the kitchen deep cleaned. Historic houses such as Byfleet Manor (about 2.1 miles north-west) are part of the area around Hatchford, and if you run event catering at a venue like that, a deep clean between seasons helps.
Hatchford is about 5 miles south of Weybridge, in Surrey. Whether your site is in the middle of Hatchford or further out, we cover grease trap cleaning for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Hatchford is one of 395 towns, villages and districts in Surrey we cover for grease trap cleaning. Our Guildford page covers sites nearby (7 miles or so).
All of KT11 is within our area for grease trap cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Nearby, we also carry out grease trap cleaning in Martyr's Green (1 mile south-west), Hatchford End (1 mile west), Downside (1 mile east), Wisley (2 miles north-west) and Byfleet (3 miles north-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Guildford (7 miles south-west), Woking (6 miles west), Camberley (13 miles west), Epsom (7 miles east), Horley (15 miles south-east) and Redhill (12 miles south-east).
What’s near Hatchford
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Forest and the Highlands and The Black Swan pub. The closest station to Hatchford is Effingham Junction station, about 1.3 miles south-east. A little further out are Send and Ripley History Society Museum (2.7 miles west) and Woking Community Hospital (5.3 miles west). Green spaces nearby include Papercourt Marshes and Boldermere Lake.
Questions from Hatchford
Who inspects food businesses in Hatchford?
The local authority for Hatchford is Elmbridge council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. Inspection results feed into the food hygiene rating published by the Food Standards Agency.
Can you work in Hatchford outside opening hours?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. The site is handed back ready to open. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. Tell us the addresses and what each needs and you will get one fixed quote.
What’s TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked and expects a risk-based approach.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Tell us what you have and how it’s used and we’ll propose a schedule with a fixed quote.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Restaurants and pubs, hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals and care homes, offices and retail, as well as food production and leisure sites.
How often should a grease trap be cleaned?
It depends on the size of the trap and how busy the kitchen is. A small trap fills more quickly than a large one and the busier the kitchen, the faster it fills. We’ll suggest an interval after the first clean.
What do you do to protect the area?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. We keep the work contained and leave the area clean.
Honest limits
In fairness, there are a few things this work won’t fix:
- A unit that cannot cope with the kitchen’s output
- Grease deep in the drains, which needs jetting by a drainage contractor
- Leaking pipework or sink wastes, which need a plumber
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will give you a straight answer.
Parts of the system we cover
- School and care home kitchens
- Kitchen waste pipes
- Inline grease traps
- Under-sink grease traps
- Restaurants and takeaways
- Pot wash sinks
Why act early in Hatchford
A dirty grease trap smells. Decomposing waste in the trap smells bad that can reach the kitchen and beyond. Cleaning it removes the cause. A fault that closes a site in a village like Hatchford affects everyone who depends on it.
We don’t list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and we will talk you through it.
Why book with us
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A written report with pictures after each visit
- Every job surveyed first
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.
Different parts, different methods
Inline grease traps
Inline traps may be under a floor panel or in a cupboard. We check how to reach it before the visit.
School, care home and staff kitchens
Kitchens that serve set mealtimes fill their traps more steadily. Planned cleaning fits their routine.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is 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.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Hatchford
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.