What Makes an Effective Grease Trap Treatment?

10th Feb 2017

For a restaurant business owner, cleaning out the grease trap is one of the biggest hassles of the job, and a backed up grease trap is one of the biggest disasters. If you’re a plumbing professional with restaurant clients, we recommend using ProClean Drain Care for grease trap treatment. Our non-toxic, environmentally safe treatment keeps grease trap drains cleaner, longer.

Please note that Duracable recommends Proclean Drain and Grease Trap Treatment for commercial plumbing contractors only.

How Do Grease Traps Get Gross?

It all begins with FOG (Fats, Oils and Grease). These three troublemakers are the byproducts of restaurants, and can wreak absolute havoc on municipal sewer systems. Federal, state and local authorities regulate the addition of FOG to the wastewater system, which is where grease traps come in. Grease traps do just as their name suggests - they trap it before it can escape and do some real damage. Cleaning out a grease trap is inevitable and a requirement. Different local municipal sewer districts, local health boards, and environmental regulations have specific requirements for how often a trap should be cleaned, but you can dramatically reduce the number of times your restaurant clients will need to clean their trap by using an effective grease trap treatment.

What Makes a Good Grease Trap Treatment?

Duracable offers ProClean drain cleaners as our treatment of choice because it’s a natural, non-toxic solution that works to neutralize organic buildup night and day as it lives in the pipe. This type of grease trap treatment begins with microbes. Microbes consume grease and organic buildup in the pipe, and turn them into carbon dioxide, water and, of course, more microbes. These tiny organisms attach themselves to the drain and trap where they begin to build a biofilm that protects the bacteria from short-term exposures to high temperature (when the dishwasher discharges), from pH swings, or from chemical toxicity. The formation of a biofilm is an evolutionary defense mechanism that our products use to keep drains cleaner for longer.

ProClean has been tested and proven to be safe to use around people and pets. However, we don’t recommend prolonged skin contact, and we recommend that you wash your hands after each use.

Your client will notice the difference within a few weeks. There will be a reduction of foul odor, and the grease in the trap will remain liquid instead of transforming into a thick crust. Although the trap will still need to be emptied from time to time but it can be cleaned less frequently and the eventual cleaning will be much more painless.

An effective grease trap treatment is safe to use, reduces odor as well as waste, and makes use of natural bacteria to clean the trap and pipe around the clock. If your customers have had to deal with a backed up trap in the past, you know what an absolute disaster it can be. Fortunately, you can help them avert disaster with ProClean Drain and Grease Trap Treatment from Duracable.