Top Rated Grease Trap Cleaning in Calgary
Do you own or operate a restaurant, or any other facility where food is cooked, prepared, or processed? If so, then Calgary city bylaw requires you to have grease traps on any drains where fats, oils, or grease might be released.
Grease traps, sometimes also known as “grease interceptors” or “FOG interceptors”, are devices that capture fats, oils, grease (“FOG”), and food waste before they can flow down the drains. Prep sinks, dishwashing sinks, dishwashers, and combination ovens all need to have grease traps installed on their drains.
Grease traps are crucial because grease buildup is the top cause of drain and sewer blockages in restaurants and food service facilities. Wastewater backing up out of a floor drain or sink is very bad for a food services company. In a worst-case scenario, drain or sewer backups can result in fines or even an AHS closure order.
Signs You Need Grease Trap Cleaning Services
There are three main signs that you need your grease trap cleaned:
Slow Draining
The fixtures attached to your grease trap are draining slowly or not at all.
If the sinks, dishwasher, or other fixtures that drain into a grease trap are draining slowly or backing up, that’s a sign that you may have a full or partially clogged grease trap.
Fixtures can also drain slowly if the pipe connecting them to the trap fills up with grease deposits. If the trap isn’t cleaned often enough, grease can back up into the attached plumbing and clog it.
Full Trap
Your grease trap is more than 25% full.
Calgary requires grease traps to be cleaned once their wet space is more than 25% full of grease or debris. You can check this by opening the grease trap’s lid and seeing how much grease has accumulated inside. If your trap’s more than a quarter full, it’s time to get it cleaned.
City By-Laws
It’s been a month or more since your grease trap was last cleaned.
Many restaurant and commercial kitchen operators don’t know that the City of Calgary requires grease traps to be cleaned at least monthly. Also, traps must have a record of every cleaning, maintenance, and inspection that was done in the past two years.
If it’s been more than a month since your trap was last cleaned, it’s time to service it again.
Grease Trap Installation and Replacement
SOS Drain Cleaning also installs, replaces, and services grease traps. If you’re building a new restaurant, installing new sinks or fixtures in an existing establishment, or have an old trap that’s beginning to rust or leak, call us for a free estimate to install a new grease trap.
While you could try to source and install a grease trap yourself, we don’t recommend it. We often get calls from customers who’ve installed their own grease traps. Usually, they’re calling because they haven’t installed the traps or piping properly, and are having clogs and backups. We also often get calls from customers who have bought grease traps from unauthorized distributors, and then failed their city plumbing inspections because they’ve bought traps that weren’t CSA-approved. We work with authorized distributors and only install CSA-approved grease traps, so you can be confident that a grease trap installed by SOS Drain Cleaning will pass a city inspection.
Why Choose SOS Drain Cleaning?
Commercial Drain Cleaning for Restaurants and Food Service Facilities
Besides grease trap cleaning and installation, SOS Drain Cleaning also provides both emergency drain cleaning and routine maintenance cleaning programs for restaurants and food service businesses. If a sink, dishwasher, or other fixture in your kitchen stops draining, SOS Drain Cleaning can unclog it promptly and efficiently, with minimal interruption to your operations. If you’re experiencing frequent clogs, SOS Drain Cleaning offers maintenance programs where our experienced technicians visit outside of business hours to clean all your major drains using hydro jetters and power augers.
If you manage a restaurant or commercial kitchen, SOS Drain Cleaning can provide a free site visit and quote for a drain maintenance program to keep your drains flowing as they should.
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