Oxfordshire · Grease trap cleaning
Grease Trap Cleaning in New Marston
Looking for grease trap cleaning in New Marston? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, finishing with a written report and pictures.
- A routine grease trap service
- Gurgling from the sink waste
- An inline trap or interceptor due for cleaning
How we handle grease trap cleaning in New Marston
A grease trap catches fats, oils and grease from the kitchen sinks before they reach the drain. As the waste water cools, the grease floats and stays in the trap, and clean water flows on. Eventually it fills and needs emptying and cleaning. The work covers kitchen waste pipes, under-sink grease traps and inline grease traps, and people most often call us about a bad smell from the sinks or drains and a blocked kitchen drain caused by grease.
For a kitchen near New Marston, deep cleans are booked around opening hours, often on a closed day.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: dated, with pictures, and showing what was done. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal and sits alongside the report.
- Location
- New Marston (OX3, OX1, OX4)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Photo report after every visit
- Quote
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Honest limits
In fairness, some problems need a different fix:
- Drains that need jetting rather than trap cleaning
- Blockages in the public sewer beyond the property
- A leaking sink waste or trap connection
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work
- Inline grease traps
- Under-sink grease traps
- Restaurants and takeaways
- Kitchen waste pipes
- Pot wash sinks
- School and care home kitchens
How the job changes from site to site
Inline grease traps
Access to an inline trap can be in a floor or cupboard. We check how to reach it before the visit.
Under-sink grease traps
Under-sink traps are cleaned in a short visit, and check the lid and seals.
Fixed quotes for grease trap cleaning in New Marston
Your quote is based on your site. We consider:
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Travel, parking and unloading
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- How big the system is
Working hours, access and the scale of the site can all change the price. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before any work starts.
What to send for a quote
There’s no need for technical detail. It helps if you can send:
- The site address and the type of premises
- A few general shots of the system
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before work begins.
Grease trap cleaning in New Marston: local notes
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 341 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 34 takeaways and sandwich shops in and around New Marston, up to about a mile and a half out. Fat from washing up sets hard in pipes, and kitchens like these produce plenty of it. Kitchens in New Marston get their food hygiene inspections from Oxford City 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 Saint Michael and All Angels or elsewhere in New Marston may have older sinks and drains, so a grease trap check is worth adding to a deep clean. If you run a kitchen in an older building near New Marston, such as a historic house like Holywell Manor (about 0.7 miles south-west), older drains make a working grease trap all the more important.
New Marston is about 1 mile north of Oxford, in Oxfordshire. Wherever you are in the OX3 postcode area, we cover grease trap cleaning for commercial sites. We cover 443 places across Oxfordshire, large and small.
Grease trap cleaning in OX3, OX1 and OX4 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Grease trap cleaning is available to premises on Ferry Road, Croft Road and Copse Lane and the roads around them. Neighbouring places we cover for grease trap cleaning include Headington Hill (1 mile south-east), Northway (1 mile north-east), Oxford (1 mile south), St Clement's (1 mile south) and Norham Manor (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Didcot (11 miles south), Bicester (10 miles north), Abingdon-on-Thames (6 miles south), Witney (11 miles west), Carterton (15 miles west) and Thame (11 miles east).
Near you in New Marston
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around English Faculty Library, Cheney School and Headington Hill Park, among other places. Nearby too are Rye St Antony School (0.5 miles south-east) and White Horse pub (0.8 miles south-east). The nearest railway station is Oxford station, about 1.6 miles south-west. Nearby you will also find Clarendon Shopping Centre (1.2 miles south-west) and Churchill Hospital (0.7 miles east). For a walk, there’s Headington Hill and CS Lewis Nature Reserve.
Keeping the system healthy
Once we’ve finished, these simple steps help:
- Tell us if your menu or hours change
- Scrape plates and pans into the bin before washing up
- Make sure the trap can be reached easily
- Keep strainers in every sink
The sinks are ready to use as soon as we have finished. Water is run through to check everything flows before we leave.
If the sinks are slow or smelly, the trap may be full. Getting it cleaned now can stop a full blockage down the line.
What we’re called out for in New Marston
Food waste slips past sink strainers or gets rinsed down. It settles in the trap as solids and fill it from below.
Clients normally contact us when they notice something like this:
- An overdue grease trap
- A regular cleaning plan for the grease trap
- A small trap that fills too quickly
- A blocked kitchen drain caused by grease
Healthcare kitchens cook through the year, so a deep clean has to be fitted around meals; Churchill Hospital, about 0.7 miles east, is the nearest hospital to New Marston.
Comparing quotes
- What insurance they carry
- Whether a survey comes first
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
The process
Your trading hours come first. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. 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. For a place like New Marston, we load the van from the survey notes so the work can be done in one visit where possible.
- A visit is booked around your service.
- We open the trap and look at its condition.
- We remove the grease layer and settled solids.
- We clean the baffles, inlet and outlet.
- We close it up, check it drains and suggest when it needs cleaning again.
Before we arrive
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Move anything stored near the system
Getting a quote
We don’t publish a price list, because every site is different. We look at your system first, from photos or on a visit, and then send you a fixed quote. To start, ring 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Advice
Common questions in New Marston
Can you come to New Marston after we close?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The work in New Marston can fit around your hours. Just call 0345 646 2711, or email photos with your opening times and we’ll plan around them.
Which council inspects kitchens in New Marston?
That’s Oxford City council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in New Marston. Keep the dates of your last deep clean and grease trap visit with your food safety records, ready if an officer asks.
How do you protect the area?
We start with protection: sheeting over floors, worktops and anything close to the work. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Not typically. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
What happens if you can’t reach some of it?
They’re marked on the report. In ductwork, new access panels are often the answer, and we can fit those.
What happens to the waste?
It’s contained and taken away. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on rather than letting it spread.
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 quote is based on that.
How regularly does a grease trap need emptying?
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.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.