Surrey · Grease trap cleaning
Grease Trap Cleaning in Irons Bottom
Grease trap cleaning for Irons Bottom and the surrounding area: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Drains that gurgle and bubble
- A grease trap that hasn’t been emptied in a long time
- A regular cleaning plan for the grease trap
The process
Protection comes first: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. The work on site takes a short visit for a small trap and longer for an inline unit or interceptor, and we clear up before we go. If you can send photos, we can arrive in Irons Bottom knowing what to expect.
- First, we find the trap and look at its connections.
- Sinks feeding the trap are taken out of use.
- 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
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
Get a fixed quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Advice
Grease trap cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Irons Bottom
Think of the grease trap as a filter for the kitchen’s drains. Kept clean, it does its job quietly, but neglected, it causes blockages and smells. Routine cleaning keeps it in good working order. If you are dealing with a blocked kitchen drain caused by grease and washing-up water that won’t drain away, we can put it right.
In rural areas, a kitchen may drain to a private system rather than a public sewer, so keeping fat out with a working grease trap matters even more.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Location
- Irons Bottom (RH2)
- Region
- Surrey
- Paperwork
- Report and photos after the visit
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Questions from Irons Bottom
Can you come to Irons Bottom after we close?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The work in Irons Bottom can fit around your hours. When you call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, mention when the site is quiet.
Can you work in school kitchens in Irons Bottom during the holidays?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. Food Standards Agency records list about 3 schools, colleges and universities with registered kitchens within about a mile and a half of Irons Bottom. Tell us your holiday dates and we will book the visit for when the site is empty.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
It depends on the building. The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
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.
How regularly does a grease trap need emptying?
It varies with the trap and the kitchen. If the sinks start to drain slowly between cleans, it’s too long and we will adjust the schedule.
What types of grease trap do you clean?
We clean all the common types. If you are not sure what you have, send us a photo and we will confirm.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Typically not. Booking the work out of hours means the site can carry on as normal. Larger jobs can be phased over several visits so parts stay in use.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes, of course. Send details of the systems and how they’re used and we’ll propose a schedule with a fixed quote.
What grease trap cleaning looks like in Irons Bottom
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 4 pubs, bars and clubs in and around Irons Bottom, up to about a mile and a half out. Where they run a kitchen, it needs the same deep cleaning and grease trap care as any restaurant. In Irons Bottom, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Reigate and Banstead council. Grease behind equipment or on a ceiling is the kind of thing an inspection can note. Photos and dates from each deep clean make a useful record.
Hall kitchens near Emmanuel Church or elsewhere in Irons Bottom may have older sinks and drains, so a grease trap check is worth adding to a deep clean. A summer deep clean suits schools such as Burys Court School, as the kitchen can be stripped back with no lunches to serve.
Irons Bottom is about 2 miles south of Reigate, in Surrey. Irons Bottom gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with pictures. Across Surrey, we cover 395 places, Irons Bottom among them. There’s also a page for Guildford, about 16 miles away.
Every address in RH2 is covered for grease trap cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. We also cover the places around Irons Bottom: Sidlow (1 mile north-east), South Park (2 miles north), Leigh (2 miles west), Dawesgreen (2 miles west) and Reigate (2 miles north). Within a short drive, we also cover Epsom (9 miles north), Horley (3 miles south-east), Redhill (3 miles north-east), Ewell (11 miles north), Walton-on-Thames (15 miles north-west) and Caterham (8 miles north-east).
Near you in Irons Bottom
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Earlswood Common and Reigate School. The nearest railway station is Salfords station, roughly 2.1 miles east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Reigate Castle (2.5 miles north) and Reigate Priory Museum (2.2 miles north). Open spaces near Irons Bottom include Mercers Lake and Colley Hill.
Different parts, different methods
School, care home and staff kitchens
School kitchens can be cleaned in the holidays or after lunch service.
Restaurant and takeaway kitchens
Visits are booked when the sinks aren’t in use so the kitchen isn’t disrupted.
What a clean will not put right
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- Drains that need jetting rather than trap cleaning
- Blockages further down the drainage network
- A trap undersized for the amount of cooking
If you’re not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll give you a straight answer before booking.
Where we work
- Kitchen waste pipes
- Inline grease traps
- Restaurants and takeaways
- Pot wash sinks
- School and care home kitchens
- Under-sink grease traps
Multi-site and managed buildings
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept on a regular cycle.
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 the report can go to both.
What affects the cost of grease trap cleaning
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- A single visit or a regular plan
Several systems or sites on one quote often makes better use of the time. Mention every system or site you need covered, and you will get one fixed quote.
Helping us quote
A few details help us quote accurately. With your enquiry, please include:
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
Every quote begins with a look at the system, from your photos and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. Then we send a fixed price, before work begins.
Places near Irons Bottom
What else we do in Irons Bottom
Between visits
Here’s the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Do not store things on top of the trap
- Mention any increase in cooking
- Wipe grease off pans before washing them
- Use strainers in the sink plugholes
You’ll get our view on how often the trap needs cleaning. It’s based on how full it was and how busy the kitchen is.
If the kitchen has got busier, the trap fills faster. Shortening the cleaning interval now keeps the drains flowing.
Signs you need grease trap cleaning in Irons Bottom
A busy kitchen in Irons Bottom, or anywhere else, fills its grease trap faster. A trap that suited a quieter kitchen can struggle when cooking increases.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- An under-sink trap that keeps filling up
- Grease setting in the kitchen pipework
- Gurgling drains in the kitchen
- An interceptor full of grease and solids
If you run a care home or healthcare kitchen near Irons Bottom (the nearest hospital is East Surrey Hospital, about 2.3 miles north-east), a grease trap on a set schedule avoids a blocked drain mid-service.
Before booking anyone
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- Proof of insurance
- How they set the interval to the next visit