Grease Trap cleaning and why it’s so important
Where does grease originate from?
Grease, oil, and fat are normal results of substenances or cooking forms. Numerous different things can fabricate a gathering of grease inside drain pipes, for example, meats, sustenance scraps, dairy items, margarine, espresso grinds, rice, eggshells, numerous cleansers, and cleansers a swell. Essentially whatever else that originates from nourishment or is utilized for cooking can be a potential reason for a grease clogged pipe. Notwithstanding when you are an extremely mindful individual, you may not see the presence of grease in the drain pipe until flooding happens.
Over the years, smashed glass accumalated into a clog that at some point, backed up the other larger bits and pieces, creating a really awful smell that would repulse the most dedicated happy hour customer.
Grease gathering inside a restaraunt’s drain pipes is a noteworthy, yet shockingly normal plumbing emergency in the making. It’s not just restaraunts who this issue, due to so much grease going thru their pipes. Apartment complexes, Corporate buildings, anywhere where a large amount of people gather means your pipes are getting lots of material flowing thru them. For instance, we took our Hydro Jet out to a popular drinking establishment who had a pipe backing up material on to the floor of the major bar in the location.
What was causing the clog?
Glass.
But by far, the most common cause of the clogged pipes we see are due to Grease build up. Managing a grease clogged drain can be not only disgusting, but compound into a very expensive emergency. At the point when grease gathers inside the drain pipe, it obstructs the section of water and prompts a flood from the influenced plumbing installation. At the point when a grease clogged drain happens everything can get foul, muddled, and unhygienic in a significant rush. Grease is maybe the nastiest of drain issues, and the hardest to manage.
In like manner, you may not know that a specific article contains grease, for example, fat based cleansers. Most cleansers are either creature fat of vegetable based. The issue is that grease doesn’t have all the earmarks of being risky until the point when it overpowers your drainage. Grease tends to develop over a drawn out time frame.
Most cleansers depend on creature fat, or vegetable fats. These kinds of cleanser can cause a grease clogged drain. Fat free cleansers are promptly accessible. Fat free cleansers arrive in an assortment of sorts, shapes, and sizes.
Where can grease collect?
The worst types of clogged pipes we see are those straightforwardly associated with a kitchen sink, particularly in the sink’s grease trap. Fat, oil, grease, and coarseness (what plumbers call FOGG) is pushed thru by normal water use and by all appearances your pipes and grease trap may seem to stream down the sink without issue and normal flushing. Inside the pipe, warmer temp water declines in temperature and cools. The water itself will stream, however the FOGG wind up hardened when presented to cool air. It can either sink to the base of the pipe. However, more probable, glide over water, and gradually coat the highest point of the pipe. As you flush more FOGG into the sink, they collect to make a much greater grease amassing, at that point in the long run a clog. After some time, the grease can totally square water section, causing floods abruptly.
Drain pipe clogging is potentially caused by a blend of calcium and fat too. Human waste and erosion from pipe produces calcium; when blended with fats from any source, development of thick and genuinely hard substance happens. It implies that any pipe situated in any room in the house can get clogged by this material by the blend of calcium and fats.
How to get rid of this nasty grease?
A grease clogged drain is a disturbing issue, and there are changing degrees of difficulty in getting them out. Some of the time it is anything but difficult to reestablish everything back to the satisfactory normal; now and then that isn’t so. On the off chance that you are dependent on getting rid of scraps and food material down your drain, attempt to blend in high temp water with dish cleanser while flushing it down or cooking buildup. Dishwashing fluid helps breaks up grease, however not nearly enough to forestall a grease clog. That’s understandable, these dishwashing agents are not intended to be tool for grease expulsion, but rather they can keep grease from collecting more.
A heavy duty pipe cleaner liquid is more viable to clean a grease clogged drain. A liberal measure of acidic cleaner can enter and possibly handle a thick and hard aggregation of grease. To do this, grab your cleaner and empty it into the sink with standing water, and let it do it’s magic for around 60 minutes. As the cleaner gradually sinks down the drain, it breaks up and washes away thick grease to the sewer, if it’s a clog that is at all possible. If the first try does not work, you may need to try a bigger ‘dose’ of the cleaner. Always make a point to pour a blend of warm water and dishwasher cleanser afterwards, just as you would do for your daily use,.
Now and again utilizing packed air, (for example, CO2) to push down the grease is smart thought, as well. This is a direct result of the destructive property of scathing cleaner. Harsh cleaners are not informed for regular flushing regarding clogs. Visit utilization won’t just dispose of grease, yet in addition erode away the drain pipes. Excessively eroded pipe is inclined to serious harms which conceivably prompt more costly repair. The erosion can likewise clog the pipe notwithstanding grease.
Some times simply cleaning your grease trap is all that’s necessary. However… it’s one of those tasks that often get ignored, as it is so unpleasant. Call us to have it done for you like clockwork every month or six months.
Business compound based cleaners are viable to handle a grease clogged drain, yet a homemade cleaner can also work for some clogs. The most well-known custom home made cleaner is a 1:1 blend of high temp water and vinegar This 1:1 blend works similarly as a industrial cleaner, while also being safer for your handling and less destructive. By including boiling water will help build temperature inside grease clogged drain, and could dissolve the clog for you. Why use vinegar? It can help expel the grease adhering to the walls of the pipe. Give it a few minutes, and then try pouring more boiling water into the sink and it may flush the rest of the grease.
For a more total cleaning, utilizing a controlled drain twist drill in conjunction with hydro jet gear is infrequently prudent. You can lease them from a tool shop and begin the cleaning procedure; however it is prescribed to utilize an expert drain cleaner. In the event that you don’t know with what you’re doing you may not be effective, or more terrible, harm yourself all the while. A grease clogged drain can deliver an awful stench that waits in your home for a long time. You can kill the awful stench by pouring a blend of high temp water and a detergent arrangement into the sink.
On account of a grease clogged house drain, or primary sewer, a high weight water jet is the perfect arrangement. Utilizing the best possible spout, and in he hands of a talented expert, can give a durable arrangement. Essentially utilizing a standard sewer cleaning machine can bring about simply driving the snake forward and backward past the grease, without expelling it by any means.
Rocket Plumbing has been serving the Chicago area’s restaurants, apartment complexes, corporate business parks of their clogged drains, grease trap problems for over 5 years now. We are one of the few plumbing services to own their own Hydro Jet in Chicago. If a grease trap is ignored, it can have major issues appear down stream, which only a Hydro Jet can completely clear, giving you great peace of mind.
How to maintain a strategic distance from a grease clogged drain?
Counteractive action is the way to evade a grease clogged drain and every one of the battles that take after the issue. When cooking or physically washing the dishes, don’t flush fats, oils, margarine, egg shells, and some other oily substances into the sink. On the off chance that you need to clean oily kitchen utensils and plates, you might need to absorb them a grease-dissolving cleaner before the real washing. Some imperative keys to recollect:
• A grease clogged drain happens just when there is an amassing of oily substances; so don’t pour fats, oils, grease, and corn meal down the sink.
• Pots, skillet, and dishes must be wiped of solids before washing. Scratched materials must be discarded in the junk.
• Install a rubbish transfer under the sink to keep a grease clogged drain.
Junk transfers or grease traps are composed particularly to isolate fats and oily substances from water. Set under the sink, it keeps conceivable clog-causing materials from going into the pipe. Whenever introduced and looked after appropriately, grease traps can catch huge measure of oily substances effortlessly. Remember that grease traps are not intended to deal with strong materials, for example, sustenance scraps. To ensure the traps don’t get strong items, likewise utilize sink strainers. In the event that you take after these means, yet still get stoppages, you may have a genuine drain pipe issue that requirements repair.
Do you have a location that has a lot of people moving in and out? Are you a restaurant owner or manager of a high volume eatery, and can NOT risk a bust pipe that could drive your customers away forever? You may require an expert drain cleaner.
Our locations that will handle your grease trap repairs and installations: North Chicago – Dupage – Arlington Heights – Jefferson Park In Chicago
