Hampshire · Grease trap cleaning
Wickham Common grease trap cleaning
Looking for grease trap cleaning in Wickham Common? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, finishing with a written report and photos.
- Foul odours from the grease trap
- An overdue grease trap
- Washing-up water that won’t drain away
How it works
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. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. Rural roads and tight entrances are worth telling us about before a visit to Wickham Common.
- First, we locate the grease trap and look at the pipework around it.
- The sinks feeding the trap are kept out of use while we work.
- The trap is emptied of grease and food waste.
- Every part of the trap is scraped and cleaned, including the baffles.
- The trap is reassembled, checked for leaks and the waste taken away.
Getting ready for the visit
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Clear loose items from the work area
Getting a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send pictures: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Related advice
Grease trap cleaning in Wickham Common
Grease is behind most blocked kitchen drains. Down the line, they can add to fatbergs in the sewer. A well-maintained trap holds them back. The work covers restaurants and takeaways, inline grease traps and school and care home kitchens, and common reasons people get in touch are sinks that drain slowly and a small trap that fills too quickly.
Rural kitchens may drain to a septic tank or a private drain rather than straight into a public sewer, and fat getting past a grease trap can cause real trouble there.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. You get a written report with pictures after each visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Location
- Wickham Common (PO17)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Report and photos after the visit
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Working hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Wickham Common: your questions answered
Do you cover smaller places like Wickham Common?
Yes, we work in villages as well as towns, and Wickham Common is covered. A survey first, from photos or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Which environmental health team covers Wickham Common?
In Wickham Common, it’s Winchester City council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Photos from a deep clean are a simple record of what was done and when.
What do you do with what you remove?
It’s contained and taken away. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go, so it does not spread.
Do we need to stop using the sinks while you work?
For the length of the clean, yes. It takes less than an hour for many under-sink units and we book it around your service.
What happens if you cannot reach some of it?
We record them on the report, with photos where possible, and we explain what access is needed, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
Why does a grease trap need regular cleaning?
A full trap can’t catch any more grease. It then sets in the drains, causing blockages and smells and can end up adding to sewer blockages.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
Which accreditations do you hold?
CHAS, SafeContractor, ISO 9001 and BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We have been trading since 2009 and we’re fully insured.
How the job changes from site to site
Grease interceptors
Interceptors take longer to clean and we plan the visit accordingly.
School, care home and staff kitchens
Kitchens with fixed mealtimes build up grease more predictably. A regular interval suits them well.
Why it’s worth doing now in Wickham Common
A full grease trap lets grease through to the drains. It hardens on the pipe walls until water cannot get through. Regular trap cleaning beats dealing with a blockage. In a small place like Wickham Common, a system that fails can take a site out of use.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and why the quote is fixed before any work starts.
What you get with us
- Fully insured
- Fixed quotes, normally within one working day
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
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Keeping the system healthy
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Tell us if your menu or hours change
- Scrape plates and pans into the bin before washing up
- Keep access to the trap clear
- Never pour used oil down the sink
We take the grease and solids away. There’s no greasy waste left on site after the visit.
Grease that gets past the trap sets in the drains. Clearing it then is a bigger job so prevention is the easier route.
Grease trap cleaning in Wickham Common: local notes
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 13 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens across Wickham Common and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). A grease trap in kitchens like these fills steadily and needs emptying before it overflows. In Wickham Common, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Winchester City council. Grease behind equipment or on a ceiling is the kind of thing an inspection can note. Having the dates of the last deep clean to hand saves digging for them on the day.
A summer deep clean suits schools such as Wickham Church of England Primary School, as the kitchen can be stripped back with no lunches to serve. Hall and church kitchens, near Church of St Nicholas or anywhere around Wickham Common, are used by many hands, and periodic deep cleans and grease trap visits keep them in order.
Wickham Common is about 3 miles north-east of Fareham, in Hampshire. Wherever you are in the PO17 postcode area, we can carry out grease trap cleaning at your premises. We cover 683 places across Hampshire, large and small. We also work in Portsmouth, around 7 miles away.
All of PO17 is covered for grease trap cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. That includes premises on Southwick Road, Castle Farm Lane and Black Cottage Lane and nearby roads. We also cover the places around Wickham Common: Crockerhill (1 mile south-west), Hundred Acres (1 mile north-east), Welborne (1 mile south-west), North Boarhunt (1 mile east) and North Fareham (2 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Winchester (13 miles north-west), Gosport (6 miles south), Havant (8 miles east), Eastleigh (9 miles north-west), Fareham (3 miles south-west) and Horndean (7 miles east).
Around Wickham Common
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Old House Hotel, among other places. The closest station to Wickham Common is Fareham station, roughly 2.8 miles south. A little further out are Knowle Hospital (1.6 miles south-west) and Fareham Shopping Centre (2.6 miles south). For a walk, there’s St Clair's Meadow and Portsdown Hill.
Signs you need grease trap cleaning in Wickham Common
Every pan and plate washed sends grease towards the drain. In the trap, they cool and separate, and the layer gets thicker day by day.
Look out for any of the following:
- Drains clogged with fat
- Gurgling drains in the kitchen
- An under-sink unit that needs regular emptying
- Foul odours from the grease trap
Healthcare kitchens cook through the year, so a deep clean has to be fitted around meals; Knowle Hospital, about 1.6 miles south-west, is the nearest hospital to Wickham Common.
Before you book anyone
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- What records you will receive afterwards
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether the figure could change on the day
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
For landlords and multi-site operators
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so each one has its own record.