Eliminating Noxious Kitchen Odors With Grease Trap Cleaning

A busy restaurant kitchen generates a ton of nasty byproduct every single shift. When fats and oils build up in your plumbing the whole building starts smelling like a sewer and customers leave. At Urgent Services LLC we handle the dirty work so your kitchen stays open and profitable. Regular grease trap cleaning keeps the foul odors away and stops your sinks from backing up during the dinner rush.

A lot of kitchen managers try to pour cheap chemicals down the drain to melt the clogs away. That lazy approach just pushes the hardened fat further down the line until the city hits you with a massive fine. You need a crew that pumps the interceptor completely dry and scrapes the walls clean. Knowing what to ask a contractor before they park their truck out back saves your business a lot of grief.

In This Article:

• Why Does My Commercial Kitchen Drain Smell Like Rotten Eggs?
  
• Red Flags When Hiring Pumping Crews
  
• Questions To Ask Before Your Grease Trap Cleaning
  
• Getting Your Kitchen Back On Track

Why Does My Commercial Kitchen Drain Smell Like Rotten Eggs?

Your commercial kitchen drain smells like rotten eggs because hydrogen sulfide gas is escaping from rotting food solids trapped in your plumbing. When fats and oils harden inside the interceptor they trap bits of meat and vegetables. Bacteria feed on this trapped sludge and release a toxic gas that smells identical to sulfur. If you smell this odor in the dining room your trap is completely full and the toxic air is pushing back up through the floor drains.

Red Flags When Hiring Pumping Crews

The commercial pumping industry has guys who just want to hook up a hose and leave five minutes later. Spotting a lazy operator early keeps your plumbing from failing a health inspection.

• Run away from guys who only skim the floating oil off the top and leave the hardened food solids sitting at the bottom of the container.
• Avoid companies that cannot provide you with a legal manifest proving they dumped your waste at a certified treatment plant.
• Be highly skeptical of crews that try to sell you expensive bacterial additives instead of putting in the physical labor to scrape the tank walls.

We believe in doing the job right and charging a fair rate for honest labor.

►Client Experience: Heidi De Miranda shared "Matt was wonderful and very informative. They were very reasonably priced!"

Getting straightforward answers and a fair deal means your business overhead stays exactly where you expect it to be.

Questions To Ask Before Your Grease Trap Cleaning

You need to know exactly how a crew operates before you trust them with your commercial plumbing. Ask these hard questions to weed out the amateurs.

• Do you use high pressure water to jet the crossover pipes and remove the sticky fat buildup from the inner walls?
• Will you physically inspect the condition of the internal baffles while the tank is empty to make sure they are not rusted out?
• How quickly can you get a truck to my restaurant if my main kitchen sink backs up on a Friday night?

Getting Your Kitchen Back On Track

You cannot run a successful kitchen if your floor drains are overflowing with nasty water. Let a veteran team bring in the heavy suction equipment and handle the mess the right way. Contact us today to get your restaurant on a reliable pumping schedule.