Surrey · Grease trap cleaning
Grease trap cleaning in Stoughton, Surrey
Grease trap cleaning in Stoughton, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and photos. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Foul odours from the grease trap
- Drains that gurgle and bubble
- A small trap that fills too quickly
How we handle grease trap cleaning in Stoughton
Smells from the sink, gurgling drains or slow drainage all point to the grease trap. In Stoughton, as everywhere we work, our team empties and cleans the trap and run water through to check it drains. The work covers school and care home kitchens, kitchen waste pipes and under-sink grease traps, and common reasons people get in touch are a grease trap that hasn’t been emptied in a long time and a bad smell from the sinks or drains.
Around a place like Stoughton, deep clean work tends to mean pubs, cafés and school or care home kitchens. Smaller kitchens still collect grease behind equipment and in the drains.
A written report with photos follows every visit, so there’s a dated record of the work. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, the certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Place
- Stoughton (GU2, GU3, GU1)
- Wider area
- Surrey
- Reporting
- Written report with photos
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Common questions in Stoughton
Can a school kitchen in Stoughton be done out of term time?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. Food Standards Agency records list about 26 schools, colleges and universities with registered kitchens within about a mile and a half of Stoughton. Send us your term dates when you ring 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we will fit the work in.
Can you get to a site in Stoughton?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Stoughton included. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before any work starts, and waste is contained as we go. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
Will cleaning the grease trap fix a blocked drain?
Cleaning the trap deals with the grease it holds, and can clear the problem where the trap was the cause. A blockage deeper in the drains needs a drainage specialist.
How often should a grease trap be cleaned?
It varies with the trap and the kitchen. Slow or smelly sinks between cleans mean it needs doing more often and we’ll adjust the schedule.
Do you take the waste away?
The waste leaves with us. You are not left with anything to dispose of after the visit.
Do we need to stop using the sinks while you work?
For the length of the clean, yes. The clean takes an hour or two in most kitchens, depending on the size and condition of the trap, and we time it to suit you.
What types of grease trap do you clean?
We cover under-sink, inline and interceptor units. Each one is emptied, cleaned and checked in the same careful way.
Common problems we fix in Stoughton
Hot washing-up water keeps grease liquid for a while. When it cools, the grease hardens, often in the trap or the pipe beyond.
Most sites get in touch when they notice something like this:
- A bad smell from the sinks or drains
- Drains that gurgle and bubble
- A regular cleaning plan for the grease trap
- A blocked kitchen drain caused by grease
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Guildford Hospital (about 1.2 miles south-west), cook for long hours, so deep cleans and grease trap work are planned around patients’ meals.
Before booking anyone
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- How they set the interval to the next visit
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether a survey comes first
How the visit works
There’s very little for your team to do on the day. Someone lets us in at the agreed time and shows us where everything is, and the rest is down to us. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. For a site near Stoughton, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- We agree a time when the sinks aren’t needed.
- We open the trap and look at its condition.
- Built-up grease and food waste are taken out.
- The inside, baffles and outlet are cleaned.
- The trap is closed, tested and the next clean discussed.
Getting ready for the visit
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
Get a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. You will normally have a quote within one working day.
Related advice
What happens if it’s left?
Pests are drawn to grease and food waste. A clean trap is less of an attraction, alongside good kitchen hygiene. It’s easy to lose track of when the work was last done on a quieter site.
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at, and you will get one fixed quote.
What you get with us
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- We are fully insured
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
What grease trap cleaning looks like in Stoughton
Food Standards Agency records list about 146 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 43 sandwich bars and takeaways within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Stoughton. Each of them sends fat, oil and grease towards the drain, which is why grease traps need regular emptying. Food hygiene inspections in Stoughton are the job of Guildford council’s environmental health team. Grease behind equipment or on a ceiling is the kind of thing an inspection can note. A record of each deep clean helps show the kitchen is kept in order.
A summer deep clean suits schools such as Stoughton Infant School, as the kitchen can be stripped back with no lunches to serve. Hall and church kitchens, near Emmanuel Church or anywhere around Stoughton, are used by many hands, and periodic deep cleans and grease trap visits keep them in order.
Stoughton is about 1 mile north-west of Guildford, in Surrey. Anywhere in GU2, we can carry out grease trap cleaning at your premises. 395 places in Surrey are on our list, large and small.
Every address in GU2, GU3 and GU1 is covered for grease trap cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. You’ll find streets such as Keens Lane, Manor Road and South Road, and we cover them all for grease trap cleaning. Main roads around Stoughton include the A322 and A323, so getting to you is simple for grease trap cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for grease trap cleaning include Bellfields (1 mile east), Westborough (1 mile south), Guildford (1 mile south-east), Jacobs Well (1 mile north-east) and Abbotswood (2 miles south-east). Larger places within reach include Woking (4 miles north), Camberley (8 miles north-west), Epsom (15 miles east), Farnham (9 miles west), Egham (12 miles north) and Walton-on-Thames (12 miles north-east).
Around Stoughton
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Chitty's Common, Wooden Bridge pub and Rydes Hill Preparatory School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Guildford station, about 1.4 miles south-east of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Guildford Castle (1.7 miles south-east) and Guildford Hospital (1.2 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Littlefield Common and Pewley Hill.
Places near Stoughton
Also in Stoughton
For landlords and multi-site operators
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we’re happy to quote for all of it.
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and pictures, so records stay tidy.
Different parts, different methods
Grease interceptors
An interceptor works on the same principle as a smaller trap. Grease floats and solids sink.
Baffles and outlets
The baffles hold back grease while water flows on. They gather grease and debris so they’re cleaned every time.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that’s where we come in.
How we price grease trap cleaning
Sites vary more than people expect. The main factors:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Any permits to work or inductions
- The scale of the work
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we’ll go through it with you.
Helping us quote
Many jobs can be priced from photos and some basics. Useful things to send:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before any work starts.