A care home kitchen is the catering facility within a residential or nursing home, preparing meals for residents with specific dietary needs. Across Greater London, care homes operate in every borough, with concentrations in Barnet, Enfield, Bromley and Croydon. Drainage characteristics include small to mid-size commercial kitchen drainage with grease management, sluice room drainage for soiled linen handling, laundry waste and resident WC drainage feeding shared internal stacks. Common issues include grease blockages disrupting meal service, sluice contamination concerns under CQC inspection, and pump failures on basement-level utility rooms. Care home operators should arrange routine grease trap servicing, maintain sluice room hygiene protocols and hold contracts with rapid response drainage providers. CCTV surveys are useful for documenting drainage condition during CQC compliance reviews and when planning capacity for refurbishments.
Care home kitchen
Catering kitchen in residential care setting, with infection control and grease management.
