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Old Coulsdon grease trap cleaning
Grease trap cleaning in Old Coulsdon from ventilation hygiene specialists trading since 2009. Out-of-hours visits and 24/7 emergency callout.
- Scheduled grease trap emptying
- An inline trap or interceptor due for cleaning
- Washing-up water that will not drain away
Part by part
Restaurant and takeaway kitchens
Busy kitchens cannot afford a blocked drain. Keeping the trap clean reduces the risk.
Baffles and outlets
The outlet carries the separated water on to the drain. A blocked outlet stops the trap working.
Grease trap cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Old Coulsdon
A grease trap is the kitchen drain’s first line of protection. When it’s looked after, you hardly know it’s there, but neglected, it causes blockages and smells. Routine cleaning keeps it in good working order. The work covers under-sink grease traps, inline grease traps and pot wash sinks, and common reasons people get in touch are a bad smell from the sinks or drains and sinks that drain slowly.
Fat, oil and grease poured down drains helps form fatbergs, and London’s sewers have made the news for them more than once. Regular grease trap cleaning keeps a kitchen in Old Coulsdon from adding to the problem.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Place
- Old Coulsdon (CR5, CR3, CR8)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Paperwork
- Report and photos after the visit
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Why act early in Old Coulsdon
Pouring hot water or chemicals down a slow drain is a common quick fix. It just shifts the grease further along to set somewhere harder to reach. Emptying and cleaning the trap deals with the source. A booked night’s work in Old Coulsdon costs you no trading time; an unplanned closure does.
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 will go through it with you.
Why Old Coulsdon businesses choose us
- Every visit written up, with photos
- In business since 2009
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations.
Aftercare tips
Once we’ve finished, these simple steps help:
- Tell us when sinks start draining slowly
- Don’t store things on top of the trap
- Mention any increase in cooking
- Keep strainers in every sink
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 sinks are slow or smelly, the trap may be full. Acting at this stage normally prevents a blockage down the line.
Old Coulsdon questions
What do you need to know about parking in Old Coulsdon?
We plan it in advance, so let us know about loading bays, permits and access rules at the building. Much of our London work is done overnight, which helps.
Do you clean school kitchens in Old Coulsdon in the summer holidays?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. Around Old Coulsdon, the Food Standards Agency lists about 15 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
What is TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. Since 2019, TR19® Grease has been a standalone specification for grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
Do you recommend a next date?
Yes. How often depends on use and condition and the report sets out why.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Every certificate and report from each visit, filed in the maintenance log, along with your own cleaning log. BESA says certificates should show the date, location and technician.
What happens to the waste?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, including grease, debris and dirty water. We don’t leave it behind.
What if parts of the system cannot be reached?
They’re listed in the report, never skipped quietly. The report says which parts couldn’t be reached and why, along with a quote to put access in.
Where does the grease from the trap go?
The waste leaves with us. Nothing greasy is left on site when we go.
The process
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. Afterwards, the area is left tidy and the written report follows. Getting kit into a London building takes planning, so let us know where we can load and park in Old Coulsdon.
- 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.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Getting a quote
For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will typically have a quote within one working day.
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Old Coulsdon kitchens: local notes
Look up Old Coulsdon on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 22 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 12 sandwich bars and takeaways within about 1.5 miles of central Old Coulsdon. Kitchens like these wash fat, oil and grease down the sink every day, and a grease trap is what stops it reaching the sewer. Fat from London kitchens contributes to sewer blockages, which is why grease traps need emptying on a schedule. Kitchens in Old Coulsdon get their food hygiene inspections from Croydon council. Walls, floors, ceilings and equipment are all part of what they look at. Having the dates of the last deep clean to hand saves digging for them on the day.
If you run event catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Addington Palace is about 5 miles north-east), a deep clean before or after the busy season is worth planning. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like St Lawrence's Hospital about 1.3 miles south-east, deep cleans and grease trap visits are planned so meals still go out.
Old Coulsdon is about 1 mile south-east of Coulsdon, in Greater London. Every kind of commercial site in Old Coulsdon, we can take on grease trap cleaning. We can work out of hours so trading is not interrupted. Old Coulsdon is one of 764 towns, villages and districts in Greater London we cover for commercial clients. You can also see our page for London, roughly 14 miles from Old Coulsdon.
Our technicians cover all of CR5, CR3 and CR8 for grease trap cleaning and the streets around it. Whether your site is on Ellis Road, Tollers Lane and Court Avenue or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover Coulsdon (1 mile north-west), Chipstead (2 miles west), Purley (2 miles north), Woodcote (2 miles north-west) and Woodmansterne (3 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover London (14 miles north), City of Westminster (15 miles north), Marylebone (15 miles north), Kensington (14 miles north), Whitechapel (15 miles north) and Brompton (14 miles north).
Local landmarks in Old Coulsdon
Around Old Coulsdon, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Sunnydown School, Dollypers Hill and The Tudor Rose pub and the streets around them. Old Coulsdon’s nearest station is Coulsdon South station, roughly 1.4 miles north-west. A little further out are East Surrey Museum (2 miles south-east) and St Lawrence's Hospital (1.3 miles south-east). For a walk, there’s Nore Hill and Mercers Lake.
Honest limits
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so here are the limits:
- Plumbing leaks around the sink
- Collapsed or damaged drains, which need a drainage contractor
- A trap undersized for the amount of cooking
Not sure which it is? You can ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we’ll tell you honestly.
Where we work
- Kitchen waste pipes
- Restaurants and takeaways
- Pot wash sinks
- School and care home kitchens
- Inline grease traps
- Under-sink grease traps
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning and specialist work are not 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.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Signs you need grease trap cleaning in Old Coulsdon
In Old Coulsdon, as everywhere, grease traps are easy to forget. Tucked away under the sink or below the floor it’s often left until there’s a problem.
Common reasons sites call us are:
- Scheduled grease trap emptying
- An under-sink unit that needs regular emptying
- Foul odours from the grease trap
- Washing-up water that won’t drain away
Where a church or community hall near Church of St John the Evangelist, or anywhere in Old Coulsdon, has a kitchen used by volunteers, a periodic deep clean keeps it ready for the next event.
Comparing quotes
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- What insurance they carry
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- When the next visit should be, and why