What is a grease trap?
A Grease trap is actually a waste water separator which can filter waste water from the kitchen and expel as much as 90% of fat and grease oil from the water.
It needs to be an essential part of any waste disposing system, whether it is attached to city sewers in a commercial business or connected to septic tanks in homes. It is also equally important to clean up grease traps in a proper way, given that proper grease disposal can be a vital determining factor in the prevention of breakdown of septic systems and getting public water bodies polluted with unnecessary waste matter. For any modern septic system, grease trap interceptor usage should be a standard. Find out how grease trap cleaning should be done.
Get rid of all solid matter
Smaller sized home grease traps are designed in such a way that these can be removed easily and cleaned by hand. Make sure that you get rid of all solid waste matter from the grease trap and dispose of the same into a trash receptacle, to be taken out of home.
Then you should scrub the internal part of the interceptor with the help of antibacterial cleansers. Once it is dry, you should replace it.
When interceptors are cleaned up regularly, you do not have any issue. In any commercial business, overlooking this important thing could lead to a violation of municipal health codes and if this is found out during an inspection, you might have to face penalties or your business could be shut down. If you do not want to handle interceptor cleaning on your own, schedule its inspection and cleaning by local grease trap service professionals, along with your septic system.
Skim or pump
In case of bigger sized units, you can clean up the grease traps in two ways – either by pumping or by skimming.
In the skimming technique, you have to get rid of the solid wastes as much as possible and keep the discarded oil left behind in the trap.
The pumping technique is more hygienic and both liquid and solid waste matter can be completely removed from the drainage system, regularly introduced after cleanings.
