Kent · Grease trap cleaning
Grease trap cleaning in Hever, Kent
Our technicians work in Hever on grease trap cleaning. Out-of-hours visits, a fixed quote and a written report with pictures on every job.
- A kitchen drain that smells
- An interceptor full of grease and solids
- An overdue grease trap
Grease trap cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Hever
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 the trap checked before we leave. The work covers inline grease traps, school and care home kitchens and under-sink grease traps, and the jobs we see most are an overdue grease trap and drains clogged with fat.
Work in a small place like Hever starts with agreeing a date and access, and the deep clean is the same as anywhere: walls, floors, ceilings and equipment.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with photos after every visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Place
- Hever (TN8)
- Region
- Kent
- Records
- Written report with pictures
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What affects the cost of grease trap cleaning
We quote each job individually. This is what makes a difference:
- The size of the system
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The times the site is available
- Site rules, permits and inductions
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before we start.
What to send for a quote
There’s no need for technical detail. It helps if you can send:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- The site address and the type of premises
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711, or email photos with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. You will typically have a quote within one working day.
Hever questions
Do you work overnight in Hever?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. Your customers, staff or residents in Hever needn’t be disturbed. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Hever?
The local authority for Hever is Sevenoaks council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. Photos from a deep clean are a simple record of what was done and when.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Everything that shows the system is looked after: our reports and photos, any certificates and your in-house logs. One maintenance log per site keeps it simple.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. That’s generally the employer or the person in control of the premises, and where several people have control, each can have duties. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
What happens to the waste?
It leaves the site with us at the end of the visit. During the work, it’s contained so the area stays clean.
How do you protect the area?
Protection goes down first: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
What’s TR19?
A BESA specification, with two parts that matter most here: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It isn’t legislation, but it’s the standard people check against.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. TR19® itself is not 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 cleaning to TR19® is the recognised way to show grease is under control.
Different parts, different methods
Baffles and outlets
Every clean includes the baffles, inlet and outlet so water flows freely.
Restaurant and takeaway kitchens
Kitchens that fry and wash up all day fill their traps quickly. They often need the most frequent cleaning.
Multi-site and managed buildings
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so records stay tidy.
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. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
How the visit works
There’s very little for your team to do on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and we take it from there. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. Pictures of the system and its access let us plan the work in Hever before we set off.
- We locate the trap and check how it’s fitted.
- 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.
Before we arrive
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
Getting a quote
Need a price for grease trap cleaning? Please ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email with a few details about the site. We will talk you through the work and give you a fixed quote before you commit to anything.
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When to call us in Hever
The more a kitchen cooks and washes up, the quicker the trap fills. Traps sized for lighter use can struggle when cooking increases.
Clients normally contact us when they notice something like this:
- Drains clogged with fat
- A kitchen drain that smells
- Gurgling drains in the kitchen
- Sinks that drain slowly
Queen Victoria Hospital, about 5.7 miles south-west, is the nearest hospital to Hever; healthcare kitchens cannot stop cooking, so deep cleans are worked around meal times.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- What paperwork you get at the end
- Whether VAT is included
- Whether they’re fully insured
Why it’s worth doing now in Hever
A dirty grease trap smells. Rotting food and grease give off foul odours that can reach the kitchen and beyond. A clean trap takes the source away. Systems in rural buildings are often out of sight and out of mind.
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Mention every system or site you need covered and we will price it together.
Why us?
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- We diagnose before we treat
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
Looking after it afterwards
Aftercare is simple, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Use strainers in the sink plugholes
- Scrape plates and pans into the bin before washing up
- Act on gurgling or smelly drains
- Let us know if the kitchen gets busier
The waste we remove leaves with us. Nothing is left for you to dispose of when we are done.
A trap that’s left too long stops catching grease. Cleaning it before it’s full keeps grease out of the drains and saves a call-out for a blocked drain.
Grease trap cleaning around Hever
Food Standards Agency records list about 3 restaurants, cafés and works canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Hever. Fat from washing up sets hard in pipes, and kitchens like these produce plenty of it. Environmental health officers from Sevenoaks council inspect food businesses in Hever. 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. We cover Hever, about 23 miles from central London, as part of our work across London and the South East. The visit is fixed around your opening hours, not ours.
For a café close to Hever station, a deep clean can be done between closing and the morning rush. Hall and church kitchens, near Church of St Peter or anywhere around Hever, are used by many hands, and periodic deep cleans and grease trap visits keep them in order.
Hever is about 6 miles north-east of East Grinstead, in Kent. Whether your site is in the middle of Hever or further out, we cover grease trap cleaning for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Hever among them. Maidstone is in our area too, about 19 miles from Hever.
We work across the TN8 postcode area for grease trap cleaning and the roads nearby. We cover sites on Hever Road and Uckfield Lane and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Hever, we cover Newtown (1 mile south), How Green (1 mile north), Markbeech (1 mile south), Chiddingstone Hoath (2 miles south-east) and Chiddingstone Causeway (3 miles east). Larger places within reach include Sevenoaks (8 miles north-east), Royal Tunbridge Wells (8 miles south-east), Tonbridge (7 miles east), Swanley (15 miles north), Kings Hill (14 miles north-east) and Paddock Wood (12 miles east).
Around Hever
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to King Henry VIII pub and Chiddingstone Castle Park and Gardens, among other places. Hever’s nearest station is Hever station, roughly 0.5 miles west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Haxted Watermill Museum (3.4 miles west) and Hever Castle (under half a mile north-east).