Catlett Va Grease Tank Cleaning

Your grease trap. As a restaurant owner, it’s probably something you don’t like to spend much time thinking about. After all, while there are lots of things that are fun and exciting about running a restaurant, keeping your trap clean isn’t one of them. Unfortunately, although it exists in the hidden underbelly of your restaurant, Catlett VA grease tank cleaning is an essential function. Let it go too long, let the trap overfill and you’ll find your restaurant shut down as you’re forced to deal with a backflow of nasty sludge in your kitchen that will be messy and expensive to clean up.

If you’ve ever tried to clean the trap out yourself, you know what a brutal undertaking it can be. It’s one of the dirtiest dirty jobs on the planet. And it’s time-consuming. Not something most people want to devote their day to. It’s no wonder then, that our Catlett VA grease tank cleaning service is one of the most popular we offer.

In terms of frequency, there are three guidelines to keep firmly in your mind:

1) City regulations – The city has guidelines about how often you need to have Catlett VA grease tank cleaning done. That’s the ironclad rule. You’ve got to follow those guidelines to the letter to remain in compliance, whether your tank is full or not.

2) The One Quarter Rule – Any time your tank is more than one quarter filled with Fats, Oils, Grease, or Solids—FOGs for short—it’s time to get the trap cleaned out.

3) As a general rule of thumb, you should empty the tank about every three months.

With these guidelines firmly in mind, you’ll seldom have problems, but there’s a catch. You may find yourself in a situation where your tank needs emptying far more often than the city’s regulations call for. If that’s the case, most of the time it’s going to come down to some type of employee training issue. Something’s going on in your restaurant that’s putting more FOGS in your tank than usual.

The two biggest culprits are these:

• You’ve got a garbage disposal in your kitchen and it is feeding into your grease trap, which is putting a tremendous amount of solids into the tank that don’t need to be there.
• Your employees aren’t properly and completely scraping dinner plates before washing. Any food left on the plates when they enter the sink or the dishwasher is going to wind up in the trap. Proper plate scraping saves you money because you won’t have to have your trap emptied as often.

Either way though, you’re going to need to have your trap emptied on a regular basis and you’re probably going to want to outsource that duty. When it’s time, just give our office a call.