Southampton · Grease trap cleaning
Sholing grease trap cleaning
Grease trap cleaning across Sholing and nearby, timed so the site keeps working and finished with a written report and pictures.
- A blocked kitchen drain caused by grease
- An inline trap or interceptor due for cleaning
- A bad smell from the sinks or drains
What your team can do, and what needs us
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
Grease trap cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Sholing
Every trap is different. Under-sink units are small and fill quickly, while inline traps and interceptors hold more. We look at the trap, how much the kitchen uses it and how quickly it fills and suggest an interval that suits. The work covers pot wash sinks, inline grease traps and restaurants and takeaways, and common reasons people get in touch are a routine grease trap service and grease setting in the kitchen pipework.
In a smaller place like Sholing, commercial kitchens are more likely to be a pub, a café, a takeaway or a school or care home kitchen. Smaller kitchens still collect grease behind equipment and in the drains.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with photos, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Place
- Sholing (SO19)
- Wider area
- Southampton
- Reporting
- Written report with pictures
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What happens on the day
A visit follows the same order every time: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the grease trap cleaning, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes less than an hour for many under-sink units. For a site near Sholing, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- 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.
How to prepare
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
Ask for a quote
Want a quote for grease trap cleaning? Please ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with a few details about the site. We’ll talk you through the work and send you a fixed quote before anything is booked.
Advice
Why act early in Sholing
Once the trap is full, grease heads for the drain. There it sets and narrows the pipe, until the drain blocks. Regular trap cleaning beats dealing with a blockage. A quieter site near Sholing still needs its system looked after.
What you pay depends on how big the system is, what state it’s in and access to every part of it. We give you a fixed price before work begins, so there are no surprises.
What you get with us
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- Fully insured
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.
Between visits
Once we’ve finished, these simple steps help:
- Make sure the trap can be reached easily
- Get food waste into the bin, not the sink
- Never pour used oil down the sink
- Tell us when sinks start draining slowly
We take the grease and solids away. Nothing is left for you to dispose of when we’re done.
A trap that is left too long stops catching grease. Regular emptying keeps it working and avoids a blockage.
Common problems we fix in Sholing
In Sholing, as everywhere, grease traps are easy to forget. Hidden under a sink or in a floor, it’s often ignored until something goes wrong.
What we’re most often called out for:
- A grease trap that hasn’t been emptied in a long time
- Drains clogged with fat
- An under-sink unit that needs regular emptying
- A kitchen drain that smells
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Sholing, a deep clean and an emptied grease trap before a busy season of events are worth booking.
Comparing quotes
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- Whether they recommend a next date
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
Grease trap cleaning in Sholing: local notes
Food Standards Agency records include about 26 bars, pubs and nightclubs within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Sholing. Where they run a kitchen, it needs the same deep cleaning and grease trap care as any restaurant. Environmental health officers from Southampton council inspect food businesses in Sholing. 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.
For a café close to Sholing station, a deep clean can be done between closing and the morning rush. Healthcare kitchens cook through the year, so a deep clean has to be fitted around meals; Royal South Hants Hospital, about 2 miles north-west, is the nearest hospital to Sholing.
Sholing is about 2 miles south-east of Southampton, in Southampton. Across the SO19 area, we can carry out grease trap cleaning at your premises. 40 places in Southampton are on our list, large and small.
Grease trap cleaning in SO19 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Local streets include Bay Road, Ashby Road and Loane Road, and we cover them all for grease trap cleaning. Being close to the A3025, Sholing is simple for us to get to for grease trap cleaning. If your site is just outside Sholing, we cover Itchen (1 mile west), Thornhill (1 mile north-east), Bitterne (1 mile north), Peartree Green (1 mile west) and Northam (1 mile north-west). Further out, we also cover Shirley (4 miles north-west), Regents Park (4 miles west), Maybush (5 miles north-west), Coxford (4 miles north-west), Freemantle (3 miles west) and Lordswood (4 miles north-west). Being one of Southampton’s larger places, Sholing has a wide mix of commercial premises, and we cover all of them for grease trap cleaning.
Local landmarks in Sholing
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Red Lion pub, Woolston School and Westwood Woodland Park, among other places. The closest station to Sholing is Sholing station, roughly 0.5 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Netley Castle (1.6 miles south) and Marlands Shopping Centre (2.3 miles west). For a walk, there’s Netley Common.
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Questions from Sholing
Do you work overnight in Sholing?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. Your customers, staff or residents in Sholing needn’t be disturbed. When you ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, mention when the site is quiet.
Do you clean school kitchens in Sholing in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. With about 34 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Sholing, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with the dates the site is empty.
What does a grease trap clean cost?
Trap size, type, condition and access all affect the price. Tell us about the trap and we’ll send you a fixed quote.
Who is the responsible person?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. That is generally the employer or the person in control of the premises, and where several people have control, each can have duties. If you are not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
No, not in itself. TR19® is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs check against, and many insurance policies ask for proof of TR19® cleaning. The legal duty sits in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in England and Wales.
What accreditations do you have?
Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The Vent Hygiene Elite scheme is run by BESCA and audited independently.
How long does a grease trap clean take?
Typically, it takes an hour or so for an under-sink trap, longer for a larger unit. A large or very full trap takes longer and we will say so when we quote.
Does the report say when we need you again?
Yes. We put a recommended next date on the report. BESA’s minimum intervals for kitchen extracts range from 3-monthly for heavy use to 12-monthly for light use, while fire dampers are tested at least annually.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Sholing
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We cover South East England and London, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
Fixed quotes for grease trap cleaning in Sholing
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- The times the site is available
- How easy every part is to reach
- The condition we find in the survey
- A single visit or a regular plan
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. You will have a fixed price before we start.
What to send for a quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Useful things to send:
- The postcode and the type of business
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, then send a fixed quote. To start, call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.