Kent · Grease trap cleaning
Lunsford grease trap cleaning
Grease trap cleaning across Lunsford and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- A grease trap that hasn’t been emptied in a long time
- A kitchen drain that smells
- Gurgling drains in the kitchen
Grease trap cleaning in Lunsford, done properly
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 keeps them out of the drains. Common call-outs are for a blocked kitchen drain caused by grease and gurgling from the sink waste, across inline grease traps, kitchen waste pipes and school and care home kitchens.
Kitchens around a smaller place like Lunsford are often in older buildings, with drains and grease traps that have been there for years. A blocked drain or a smelly grease trap is normally the first sign.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. So every job comes with a written report and photos, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Location
- Lunsford (ME20)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Records
- Report and pictures after the visit
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Multi-site and managed buildings
For anyone managing more than one site, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
How the visit works
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the photos you sent. Anything unexpected is raised with you before we go further. After that, the work takes a short visit for a small trap and longer for an inline unit or interceptor. Evenings, weekends or a closed day all work for a site in a place like Lunsford.
- 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.
- We refit it, run water through and remove the waste.
Getting ready for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
Getting a quote
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
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What the work involves, part by part
Grease interceptors
Interceptors separate grease the same way, on a larger scale. Cooling water lets grease rise and solids settle.
Under-sink grease traps
Under-sink traps are cleaned in a short visit and check the seal on the lid.
Leave it or put it right?
A full grease trap lets grease through to the drains. It hardens on the pipe walls until water can’t get through. Regular trap cleaning beats dealing with a blockage. In a smaller place like Lunsford, a site that has to close is felt quickly.
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. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll explain each part.
Why book with us
- Full insurance on every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- A fixed price before any work starts
Read our cost guide and our accreditations.
What grease trap cleaning looks like in Lunsford
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 12 bars, pubs and nightclubs within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Lunsford. Pub and hotel kitchens get the same build-up behind equipment and in the grease trap as any other. In Lunsford, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Tonbridge and Malling 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.
Half-term is a good time for school kitchens, at schools like Lunsford Primary School for instance, to have the grease trap emptied and the kitchen deep cleaned. For busy kitchens close to New Hythe station, deep cleans and grease trap work can be done after closing.
Lunsford is about 5 miles north-west of Maidstone, in Kent. Whether your site is in the middle of Lunsford or further out, we cover grease trap cleaning for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. 922 places in Kent are on our list, from busy centres to quieter spots.
Our technicians cover all of ME20 for grease trap cleaning and the streets around it. That includes premises on Sassoon Close, Chaucer Way and Masefield Road and nearby roads. Neighbouring places we cover for grease trap cleaning include New Hythe (1 mile east), Larkfield (1 mile south), Leybourne (1 mile south-west), Snodland (1 mile north) and Birling (1 mile west). Larger places within reach include Maidstone (5 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (13 miles east), Dartford (13 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (11 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (14 miles south-west) and Gravesend (9 miles north).
What’s near Lunsford
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Leybourne Lakes Country Park, The Malling School and The Holmesdale School, among other places. The nearest railway station is New Hythe station, roughly 0.7 miles east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Maidstone Hospital (3.2 miles south-east) and Leybourne Castle (0.9 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Blue Bell Hill and Burham Down.
Also in Lunsford
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Staff cleaning and specialist work are not the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they do not reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Questions from Lunsford
Do you work in school kitchens around Lunsford out of term?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. The FSA’s register shows about 23 schools and colleges with food registrations within roughly a mile and a half of Lunsford. Send us your term dates when you call 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we’ll fit the work in.
Do you work overnight in Lunsford?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The work in Lunsford can fit around your hours. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
What happens if you cannot reach some of it?
Anything we cannot reach goes on the report, with photos where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes, always. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it and the fixed quote is built on it.
Which records should we keep?
Everything that shows the system is looked after: our reports and photos, any certificates and your in-house logs. A single log for each site works best.
Will cleaning the grease trap fix a blocked drain?
Our service covers the grease trap itself. If the drain beyond the trap is blocked or damaged, we will tell you so you can call a drainage contractor.
Do you take the waste away?
We remove all the waste we take out. None of it goes back into the drains, of course.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
Floors and surfaces near the work are sheeted before we start, and anything we remove is contained. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
Do you need grease trap cleaning in Lunsford?
The more a kitchen cooks and washes up, the quicker the trap fills. Traps sized for lighter use can struggle when cooking increases.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- A regular cleaning plan for the grease trap
- An interceptor full of grease and solids
- An overdue grease trap
- Foul odours from the grease trap
Where a church or community hall near Church of the Holy Trinity, or anywhere in Lunsford, has a kitchen used by volunteers, a periodic deep clean keeps it ready for the next event.
What your quote should include
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- What paperwork you get at the end
- What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
- Whether a survey comes first
Honest limits
Grease trap cleaning cannot fix everything, and we’d rather say so up front. It does not solve:
- Sewer problems outside the premises
- Grease set hard in the drain run
- A leaking sink waste or trap connection
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we’ll say what we think.
What the work covers
- Inline grease traps
- Kitchen waste pipes
- Pot wash sinks
- Under-sink grease traps
- School and care home kitchens
- Restaurants and takeaways