FAQs

Each grease trap cleaning, as required by your municipality, includes:

• Removal and subsequent re-closure of grease trap lid (as access is provided by the customer)
• Vacuum out of grease trap contents
• Scraping of as many walls and baffles inside the trap that can be accessed
• Spraying the trap to clean debris from the trap (as spray is accessible)
• Verify the inlet and outlet are functional
• Inspecting the walls and floor of the trap for leaks

It is physically impossible for your grease trap to cause a backup.  A grease trap is only a box that catches your waste water.  As such, it doesn’t do anything but catch waste.  When your trap is cleaned out, all of the waste is removed.  Therefore, your lines should actually flow better after they are vacuumed.  However, just because your grease trap catches most of your waste, this doesn’t mean the trap is the only place where waste can collect.  Much as the arteries in our bodies get plaque build-up on their inner walls, so the drain lines in your building get grease build-up.   The most likely cause for a clogged drain is that the drains from your 3-comp sink to your grease trap have a build-up.  It’s also possible that the drain line from your grease trap to the city waste water line is clogged.  A recently cleaned or well-maintained grease trap does not cause a backup.

Your grease trap is only a box that catches your waste water.  As such, it doesn’t do anything but catch waste.  As water flows out of the drain lines in your building, that water contains various materials.  Most of those materials stay in the water and flow out, but some materials, like grease and other heavy solid particles, are dropped (or caught) by your grease trap.  Those materials begin to break down as they sit inside of your trap.  This trapping of materials, and their decomposition over time, is what causes the smell to come from your trap.  If the seal on your lid is good and tight, you shouldn’t smell the stench.  However, many trap lids fall into disrepair, which causes the smell to emanate from your trap continuously.

Much like the arteries in our body get plaque build-up, so do all of the drain lines in your building.   The likely cause is that the drains from your 3-comp sink to your grease trap have a build-up that is plugging them, or the drain line from your grease trap to the city waste water line is clogged.   Even though you clean your grease trap, as mandated by your grease inspector, there can still be a build up of grease and other solids within your drain lines. 

The solution:   Call GreaseCorp and ask us to snake or jet your line. 

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