Grease Management · Bracknell & Berkshire
Grease trap emptying, planned FOG maintenance and emergency clearance for restaurants, pubs, takeaways and commercial kitchens across Berkshire — keeping you compliant with trade effluent conditions and out of the emergency-callout cycle that fat, oil and grease blockages cause.
Registered waste carrier · Scheduled maintenance plans · 24/7 emergency clearance
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Waste Carrier
Scheduled
Maintenance Plans
24/7
Emergency Clearance
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Waste Transfer Notes
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The Service
One Bracknell-based team. 6+ years of Berkshire pipework, drainage and installation work behind every job. Same-day service guaranteed across the region.
What it covers
Grease management covers the cleaning, maintenance and compliance monitoring of grease traps and grease interceptors serving commercial kitchens, plus the jetting and repair of any downstream drainage affected by fat, oil and grease (FOG) build-up. It includes scheduled emptying, planned jetting of affected pipe runs, and the waste transfer paperwork required to prove compliant disposal.
Who it's for
Restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotel kitchens, school and care-home catering facilities, and any commercial kitchen operator whose water company or landlord requires a managed FOG programme as a condition of their trade effluent consent or lease.
When you need it
Grease traps need emptying on a schedule matched to covers served — weekly to monthly for high-volume kitchens, longer for lower-throughput sites. Downstream drainage jetting is usually planned quarterly or twice-yearly depending on how quickly fat builds. Immediately if a kitchen drain is slow, smelling, or has backed up during service.
Why professional matters
An unmanaged grease trap fills and stops trapping fat within weeks in a busy kitchen, and untreated fat then travels downstream and sets against the pipe wall, building thicker with every service until the drain blocks completely — usually during a Friday night service, not a quiet Tuesday morning. Water companies can and do take enforcement action against sites causing repeated FOG-related sewer blockages, and a kitchen with a backed-up drain is a food hygiene and closure risk.
What Happens If You Wait
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Fat-affected drains fail predictably at the worst time — mid-service on a busy night, when every pot wash and floor drain is under load. A kitchen with no working drainage is a kitchen that has to stop service.
Water companies monitor FOG discharge and can issue enforcement notices, require costly remedial works, or in repeated cases pursue prosecution against sites causing sewer blockages downstream of their premises.
A backed-up kitchen drain brings foul water and odour close to food preparation areas — a serious food hygiene rating risk that environmental health officers take extremely seriously on inspection.
Common Mistakes We See Weekly
Our Process
01
We assess your kitchen's covers, grease trap size and current condition, and downstream pipe runs to establish a realistic baseline before setting a schedule.
02
Full vacuum emptying of the trap or interceptor, removing settled fat and solids rather than just skimming the surface layer.
03
Kitchen drainage runs downstream of the trap are jetted on a planned cycle to remove any fat that's already travelled past the trap and started building on pipe walls.
04
Every visit is logged with a waste transfer note and a maintenance record you can show your water company, landlord or environmental health officer on request.
05
We review the schedule against what we find at each visit — if the trap's filling faster than expected, we tighten the interval rather than waiting for a blockage to tell us.
Why It's Worth Doing Right
A properly scheduled programme catches fat build-up before it's thick enough to block a drain during your busiest hours.
Waste transfer notes and maintenance logs are ready whenever your water company, landlord or environmental health officer asks for evidence of a managed FOG programme.
Schedules are based on your actual covers and trap condition, not a generic quarterly visit that leaves a busy kitchen overloaded between clearances.
Jetting the pipe runs past the trap catches fat that's already escaped it — emptying the trap alone doesn't fix a drain that's already coating up downstream.
If a kitchen drain does block mid-service, we run emergency jetting cover around the clock so you're not closed for the night.
Grease waste is removed and disposed of under our registered waste carrier licence, discharging your duty of care obligation properly.
Technical Detail
Grease management is a compliance obligation as much as a maintenance task. Water companies set trade effluent conditions specifically to stop FOG entering the public sewer network, and enforcement against repeat offenders is real, not theoretical.
Local Knowledge
Bracknell-based, working daily across Wokingham, Maidenhead, Windsor, Ascot, Reading, Woodley, Woking and into West London. The right kit for Berkshire soil, Berkshire pipework and Berkshire weather.
A grease trap's effective capacity depends on covers served, not just its physical size — a small trap on a high-volume kitchen fills far faster than a larger trap on a quiet café. We size the emptying interval to actual throughput, checking fat depth against water depth at each visit and tightening the schedule if the trap is filling faster than expected rather than waiting for a failure to force the issue.
Even a well-maintained grease trap doesn't catch 100% of fat, oil and grease — some inevitably passes through, especially from high-temperature discharges that keep fat liquid past the trap before it cools and sets further down the pipe. Planned jetting of the kitchen drainage run, typically quarterly to twice-yearly depending on volume, removes this residual build-up before it's thick enough to cause a blockage.
Water companies issue trade effluent consents that set conditions on what commercial kitchens can discharge to the public sewer, including FOG limits. Sites causing repeated sewer blockages traced back to their discharge can face enforcement notices, remedial work requirements, and in persistent cases prosecution. A documented maintenance programme with waste transfer notes is the standard evidence a site can point to if a water company raises a query.
Passive gravity interceptors (the common under-sink or in-ground trap that relies on fat floating and cooling to separate it) suit smaller kitchens, while larger sites often run automatic grease removal units (AGRUs) that skim fat continuously and reduce manual emptying frequency. We service and empty both, and can advise where a passive trap has been outgrown by increased covers and needs upgrading.
Commercial kitchen drainage runs hotter, greasier water at higher volume than any domestic system, and typically needs larger-bore pipework, dedicated grease interceptors and a formal maintenance regime that domestic drains never require. Sean's background in commercial drainage subcontract work for one of the UK's largest water companies means FOG compliance and commercial kitchen drainage are treated as a distinct discipline, not a scaled-up version of a household blockage.
Questions
Still got a question we haven't answered? Phone the office and ask an engineer directly — no call centre, no script.
07949 996627It depends on covers served — high-volume kitchens often need weekly to monthly emptying, lower-throughput sites can go longer. We assess your trap and set a schedule matched to actual fat build-up rather than a generic interval.
Repeated grease blockages traced back to your kitchen can trigger enforcement action from your water company, on top of the cost and disruption of mid-service drain failures and the food hygiene risk of backed-up drainage.
Yes — emptying the trap alone doesn't remove fat that's already passed it and started building on the pipe walls further down. Planned downstream jetting is part of a proper FOG maintenance programme.
Costs depend on trap size, covers served and schedule frequency — we quote a fixed maintenance plan after assessing your kitchen, rather than a one-size price. Emergency clearance callouts are quoted individually.
Yes — every visit generates a waste transfer note and maintenance record you can produce on request from your water company, landlord or environmental health officer.
Yes, 24/7. We understand a blocked kitchen drain mid-service is a business-stopping emergency, not a next-week booking.
A passive trap relies on fat cooling and floating to separate naturally and needs periodic manual emptying. An automatic grease removal unit (AGRU) skims fat continuously and needs less frequent manual intervention — better suited to higher-volume kitchens.
Yes — all grease and FOG waste is removed and disposed of under our registered waste carrier licence, with full documentation provided.
Yes — this usually means the schedule is under-sized for your actual covers, or downstream jetting has been skipped. We'll assess and reset the schedule based on what we find rather than just repeating what isn't working.
Yes — we're rated 9.67/10 across 197 reviews on Checkatrade. Read them before you call if you want independent proof rather than taking our word for it.
Yes — Overflow is based in Bracknell (RG12) and we run grease management jobs daily across Bracknell, Wokingham, Maidenhead, Windsor, Ascot, Reading, Woodley, Woking and West London, reaching out into Surrey, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire. If you're inside the M25/M4 corridor or nearby, you're in our patch. Call 07949 996627 and we'll confirm an arrival window on the call.
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Scheduled grease trap and FOG maintenance, plus 24/7 emergency clearance across Berkshire. Call 07949 996627.
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