How often you have to clean a grease trap in Melbourne is not a number you pick, it is set by your trade waste approval. In and around Melbourne, trade waste is administered by the Melbourne retail water business for your site, either Greater Western Water, Yarra Valley Water or South East Water, and your discharge approval sets how often the trap must be serviced. The interval on that agreement, often quarterly or monthly for a busy kitchen, is the one that counts at an inspection.
The trap does not care about the paperwork though. A grease trap fills at the rate your kitchen puts fats, oils and grease down the sink, so a high volume fryer heavy site fills faster than a small cafe. If you are seeing slow drains, odour or a fat cap near the outlet before your scheduled service is due, the trap is telling you the cycle is too long for how hard the kitchen runs.
Melbourne laneway cafes, CBD restaurants and inner suburban food strips make it one of the busiest hospitality markets in the country. A kitchen trading seven days needs a servicing rhythm that keeps the trap well under capacity between visits, because a trap that overflows can fail a trade waste check, foul the kitchen, and in the worst case push grease into the sewer where it becomes the authority's problem and then your bill.
Keep the service records. Every pump out should come with a docket showing the date, the volume removed and the licensed disposal point. That record is what you show at your next Melbourne trade waste review, and it is the difference between a quick tick and an awkward conversation.
When the service is due, Grease Traps Australia routes your Melbourne job to one local operator, at their own fixed price, with the disposal docket included. Enter your postcode to get started.