Grease Trap Cleaning Services To Improve The Image Of Your Business And Keep It Compliant With Local

Grease traps are highly valuable for the food industry, hotels, and kitchens as it prevents food, oil and grease (FOG) from remaining in the wastewater as it drains into sewer pipes. Failure to keep these clogging materials out of the sewer lines can have undesirable consequences. Waste from commercial kitchens enters the grease trap through an entry point and flows down, coming out of the pipe in the lower portion of the trap. This allows grease and oil to float to the surface of the grease trap while heavier waste moves to the bottom. The water flows through the outlet pipe, thus preventing grease and solids from entering the wastewater stream. This way, a grease trap keeps FOG and prevents its release into city lines. Most of the floating FOG is trapped by a barrier which allows water to flow under the exit pipe. This way, a grease trap ensures that the wastewater entering the exit pipe is relatively free of FOG, and thus becomes more suitable for discharge into city lines.

Over time, layers of grease and sediment may build up, and eventually, force the water into the city sewer system if the trap is not cleaned. The grease trap should be cleaned when 25% of the liquid level in it is filled with FOG. However, if grease and solids in the trap’s final compartment accumulate to half or more of the height of the grease tap in less than three months, then it must be cleaned at the earliest possible time.

Now that you have learnt a little bit more about what a Grease Trap is, let’s go into more detail about what happens to the waste!

Maintaining high standards in all industrial cleaning services

Commercial grease traps are typically located outside of the main building and must be cleaned regularly. Grease trap cleaning services by Solo Resource Recovery ensure that your grease trap is cleaned with professional expertise and is tailored to the specific location of each trap. With its quality control measures and site audits, Solo Resource Recovery’s grease trap cleaning services maintain high standards in all industrial cleaning services. The crew uses environmentally friendly products and industrial-grade equipment that can handle grease trap cleaning projects of any complexity and size.

Removing waste from the grease trap

The staff at Solo conducting grease trap cleaning services use a systematic procedure to clean your grease trap. The staff cautiously removes the grease trap's lid gasket in order to prevent any damage. To determine how many inches of grease are there, the trap is then measured with a ruler. The grease trap cleaning services utilise a pump to remove the water from the grease trap. After that, the operator will scale the machine's bottom, sides, and lid to get rid of any extra oil. The procedure adopted by grease trap cleaning services prevents the rapid accumulation of debris that has been knocked loose but not yet removed.

Your local water authority will set the frequency of cleaning your grease trap and the pump out of grease and sludge. The frequency of grease trap cleaning services will depend on the nature and volume of wastewater produced by your business. Grease traps ranging in capacity from 400 litres to 5000 litres will necessitate the use of professional equipment and trained personnel with experience in grease trap cleaning services.

Some of the benefits of grease trap cleaning services are:

• Avoid costly repairs due to blocked drains and pipes
• Prevent any legalities from nearby occupants for negligent damage to their property
• Avoid a bad review from a passer-by who potentially smells foul odours
• Avoid revenue loss due to the shutdown of a dining room
• Avoid an enforcement action by the council due to code violation

Cleaning services for all types of grease traps

Solo Resource Recovery’s grease trap cleaning services use professional equipment and clean your grease trap to keep it in compliance with all local codes and regulations. It is the responsibility of each business owner to keep their grease trap cleaned, and also proper disposal of FOG removed from it. Solo Resource Recovery provides one-stop solutions for grease trap cleaning services for all sizes of grease traps, with proper documentation of all work, hauling, and disposal to support your compliance requirements.

Solo Resource Recovery also provides its septic tank cleaning services and grease trap cleaning services to households and councils throughout Australia. Solo Resource Recovery is also skilled in a variety of industrial services including CCTV inspection, liquid waste disposal, non-destructive digging, geotech pavement investigation, emergency response & spills, and more.

Solo has professional liquid waste removal teams strategically located throughout Australia, ensuring that every business has easy access to an accredited liquid waste disposal service.