Grease Trap Room Sign

Grease trap rooms turn up in food-court tenancies, pub and club kitchens, hospitals and anywhere with a commercial kitchen behind it. The room needs identifying for the trades who service it — plumbers, pump-out contractors, council inspectors — and for everyone else, so that it does not quietly become a mop store.

There is no Australian Standard written specifically for grease trap identification. Identification is commonly required under a water authority's trade waste conditions, but those conditions differ between authorities and between sites, so confirm with your water authority whether it applies to yours and in what form. Certifiers and facility managers, for their part, tend to treat an unlabelled service door as a gap either way.

The plate is 600mm x 100mm horizontal in Satin Natural Anodised Aluminium (SNA), Composite — Silver Brushed (ACM) or Composite — White (ACM), from $35. Panels are 3mm thick with tamper-proof graphics and black text on a silver background, which counts for something in a warm, wet room that gets hosed out and where cheaper printed vinyl lifts at the edges inside a year. Double-sided tape is fitted to the rear. Fix it to the door face or the architrave, high enough to sit above splashback and trolley damage.