Drain Pros Ep. 5 - Grease Trap at Grocery Store Deli
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2020
- In this video we are pumping out a grease trap under a stainless steel three bay sink in a deli of a grocery store. After using our portable pumping unit to vaccum out the thick grease from the grease interceptor we use a general drain machine to cable through the inlet and outlet of trap to break up all grease build up that has gotten down into the pipe. After the cleaning has been completed we refill the grease trap to the usual height of the outlet and reinstall the lid.
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I work on drainage systems on warships. The piss, poop and shower drains (hair) doesn't really bother me but when the GDU backs up from the galley it has me retching. Fetid food and other waste just stinks to high heaven and just doesn't seem to go away from the compartment until a few days or your overalls until the 3rd maybe 4th wash.
correct me but, the reason for this is 2 things, grease is very like rich,earthy and rotten aswell as (in some cases: catches all the above: pee poo and whatnot like u mentioned) so it just kinda gets all the rancid rotten fat and gunk?
That Grease interceptor could function much better if it was actually installed as per the manufactures instructions. Proper venting and a trap upstream would make a huge difference.
something I learned mowing lawns when I was young, you paint the underside of the mower to help stop the grass from sticking and caking up. I'm sure the same applies to a grease trap. it did fall off the sides pretty easily in your video
Really? I happened to cut my grass which sucks . I'm gonna try that. Just any spay paint work's?
@@markfalgoust6910 I'd think a gloss would be best, since it's less textured. do the poop test, throw some poop at it, see if it sticks :-)
Nice job rounding off the bolt LOL...Wouldnt you just invest in a half decent ratchet with a minor extension to a socket? Makes your life easier, looks more professional too.
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Sounds like you do this for a living
@@99SuperKiller99 mechanic
You’ve never met a plumber
lol I was totally thing that there is a better tool for that
What harm would come from removing all solids? This looks like halfassed work
I knew he was clueless when I saw him using channel locks on that bolt. Lol
@@omgitsrickatier Bingo!!!!
It was half a assed job
You commenters are probably a bunch of couch potatoes. Probably not even out slugging away like this fella.
Its amazing how when that grease goes to the Dump Facility it is recycled after cleaned and used in making Soap.
My first job was at McDonald's. Our grease trap was built into the floor. Like a pit. It was 5 feet deep. The smell could kill brain cells
Still it looks like you should have vacuumed up those chunks again seems kind of half-assed myself
To both of you who say this was a bad job….or half ass.. you don’t know what you are talking about…. , I clean drains for a living and grease traps are often part of the job…. These are usually done on a quarterly basis…. There is absolutely no need to go to the length of getting every bit that out.. especially if you are the guy doing the maintenance… the job is usually understood that you are there to suck the trap and and clean the pipe .. most guys do what they did and nothing more… because it’s note necessary…
@@cameronbates9185 whats ur company just curious
You obviously don't have to clean out grease traps every week
.... doesn't have to be cleaned out every week? Must be nice
@@drainmonkeys385you sir should be fired that is a half ass job suck out the rest is not hard it’s usually every 2-4 months wtf are you on ? So just do 70% of a job and move on ? Please tell me the business you work for so I know not to call your lazy ass coming from a pipe cleaner and grease trap cleaner that is just lazy work for hundreds of dollars
Thats nasty - Cleveland Brown
😂😂😂😂😂😂
fun, I enjoy snaking and stuff like this
Thanks Techman! If I can, I’ll keep them coming 👍
Every grocery store owner that may watch this is going...damn...how do I get one of those...lol...
Shop Vac & Into trash bag to dumpster
seal for lid is for odor/gas containments anytime levels appear to be going above outlet lateral (ie.grease upto top or spillig over)
their is an issue with outlet lateral
It would be interesting to see where or how you dispose of all that grease.
There is a facility that processes it and use it for fuel and fertilizer i just saw a video of another company
That smell stays with you all day😂😂
joseph pinkney definitely stays with you 👎.. feel like even when I’m doing my best to stay clean I always get a little on me 🤦♂️
This is what i do for a living. Gd stuff bro.
Cheers from Singapore!
I hope they cleaned those pots and pans ocer the grease trap again. Realistically, they probably didn't.
Nice job and video
He did a piss poor job...Jeez
Looks yummy
Haha makes it hard to eat lunch after a job like this 😂
i ate before watching this as soon as i saw the inside of the trap i was ready
If the GT is rusting out, largely lid and baffle do I just replace with the same size and gpm? Can I just buy a new one and install those parts over? IMO, my GT is full of yeast and not oil. I don’t know what kills yeast and doesn’t dissolve oil.
Hi thanks for the video. I'm have a problem with grease. We get our trap cleaned regularly. I've noticed the levels in the compartments are very different. The outgoing side is very low like below the out pipe. Is this a problem. Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated thanks
Thanks Tim! The outlet level of your trap should be just about even with the bottom of the pipe.. the water should flow slowly through the outlet as you run water from the sink.. if your at that level then your golden! If it’s lower than that usually it means there’s a clog at the bottom of the outlet baffle not allowing the water volume drain through but rather fill up the level of the main chamber! 👍 let me know how you make out, wish you the best of luck!
Looks like there was an actual vent roughed in for the inlet vent but nope bam cheater vent 😂
Question: Why didn't you vacuum it again after you ran snake and scraped more off the wall of the trap? Just wondering. Hope it's not so you are back there soon. lol 5:52
Not at all Richie! We already have it on a maintenance agreement so if it backed up between them we would take care of that for them free of charge 👍. The side wall grease and the grease in the pipe is typical hard and crusty and clogs the vaccum up, the next time we suck it in a few months the chunks will liquify with the warm water back into pump-able grease! Thanks for asking!
I was thinking the same thing, why not do a good job while they were there, have a five gal bucket or something to put the extra in.
Just my thoughts but if you make it so the customer calls you less for said item covered under the maintenance contract the customer may cancel said service contract on that item because they see they don’t need service every few months.
I thought the same thing
I just saw another video, and this guy left it clean. There was no grease on top or in edges left
Yes !!!
Please tell me how much that Dyna pump is! I need to refer it to my company I can't stand how we use a Nikro 55 Gallon Dual Motor Wet/Dry Vacuum for our internal grease trap cleaning, it's such a pain to tip it back and push it with a hand truck when it's full of water/grease
Hello, i have a question , so the plastic cap should be there? The one you mention on min 7:50 ? And thank you for your video it helped me on my restaurant needs.
I'm a HVAC service tech and it takes a special kinda dude to do this line of stinky grease trap work. I'll stick to clogged condensate drains instead.
twy on its back up stream of trap air admittance valve on inlet side no vent downstream of trap take you truck and drive it through the store or over the plumber that installed it
What do y’all do with the grease and other liquid you get with the grease shopvac? 💚💚
We pump 55 gallon portable unit into a 300 gallon trailer before it gets sent to the sewer treatment plant! I’ll see if I can show that on the next grease video 👍
@@DrainPros, yeah it's the follow up stuff that turn these videos into the adult version of Sesame Street. Like Mike Rowe,"See all this poo gets scraped off the bottom and sent to the power plant!" And it's not like it's some big secret, it's just most people don't think of things like that.
@@DrainPros would love to see this! What kind of trailer do you have? I am interested in buying a 55 vac
An experienced mechanic person recently showed me that if a stuck horizontal oriented 55 year old brass screw fastener such as a drain cover over a 45 degree angle Y-shaped inlet on 1-1/4 to 2 inch pipe needed to be loosened and removed, that lifting upward on the 18 inch long socket wrench drive handle is way better than pushing downward on the same wrench handle because more and greater force could be applied in a more controlled manner (that is if the given operator person was capable of lifting very strongly on this tool handle).
This is because weight lifting can be even greater than misapplied body weight downward upon a slippery situation where the socket could slip off of the hexagonal shaped nut, thereby causing stripping on the fastening hexagonal fastening head attempting to be removed.
The alternative for physically limited space situations is to rent or buy a compressed air socket impact drive that applies very strong rapid controlled impacted torque to loosen such fasteners--this along with the needed space required to lay the compressed air hose or wheel in this heavier air compressor equipment in close proximity that requires some man handling effort anyway.
A larger compressor might be 5 horsepower, have a 6 foot high compressed air tank, and a loud air-cooled three cylinder compression drive sitting atop of it that uses a 3 phase 240 volt electrical motor requiring such an electrical outlet that are not that common place. I am from Canada, by the way...
Interesting spammer! Thank you for the knowledge👍
How many gallons is that sink? Whats the cost for this size install?
0:33 pulls out pliers instead of nut driver. good luck noobs
was the trap installed the wrong direction of flow, is not the baffle to let water at the bottom, to exit the trap, and the depth of the baffle the max defence to TRAP all grease
Can you do this with only a shop vac or do you need that machine? and how much does that machine go for?
i do it with 3 or 4 shop vacs or one shop vac and x2 30 gallon brute trash containers with lids. ALSO SUPER IMPORTANT USE PLASTIC SCRAPER NOT METAL SCAPER
Why a plastic scrapper?
@@brentcuaz7756 because metal scratches the paint, the paint makes the grease easy to scrape off.
How often does a grease trap need emptying and does it need to be vacuum pumped?
Depends on size and volume. Inspectors will require minimums. Small traps like that are typically monthly. Quarterly and Bi Annual pump outs are generally reserved for you standard 1500 + g outside .
How much do you charge for this service exact same size trap
I think I'll stay in pipe installation... Unless the pay is alot better. Never mind I'll stay in construction
I hear you! Just as much respect for that side of plumbers as well, takes a whole different skill set 👍
I did commercial new construction and commercial reno for a 4 and a half years. Been doing service for 2 months. If you want to learn alot about plumbing I'd recommend getting some service experience. Work can be shit sometimes.. But the pay and the knowledge more than makes up for it.
use socket to remove nut on top
I only do that with my own two hands promse
Where do dispose the grease
@0:30 - Would go a lot more quickly using a proper socket.
Definitely need to make a side bucket that is strictly for grease traps! 👍
@@DrainPros Was it five times your multi grips slipped off that bolt? A properly sized socket on a battery driver would be way more effective / efficient / professional going forward. Clean all the gunk out, that's what the contract states, and that's what our man does., not leave huge hard bits in there (you said that yourself) so it can clog again real soon. Who said it would be hot water coming down to "break up" the chunks? Bodgie job from dodgy blokes.
What the worst one u guys have done?
That’s why you never use short 2” 90 elbows
Smelly work maintenance contract should be more $$$$ leaving all that grease you will be back more often great job
AND RAN H O T .. H O T WATER THRU THERE.
First time I saw the snake...🤷♂️🤷♂️
hi guy the video is excellent. i work in a deli and have tha same trap, the problem is its dont have the rubber for seal the cover. Coudl you tell me what kind is the rubber seal. Thanks
For a trap that big what's the average cost you charge somebody cuz I do it for my boss and she pays me $30 to clean it I'm not a professional but I got the job done just curious how much you charge
Call places around your area to get estimates on grease trap cleaningings. Around me it cost 500 + get more for that job bro. I think your getting lowballed
what does that smell like?
bring a fan
Hate it when the glove rips. Usually when it's most inconvenient.
👍... always a pain!!
How often is that done?
And why didn’t get all the stuff out at the end. I guess need to be called more often since it’s just halfway clean hehehe.
How much a job like this cost...
Right around $300 and we typically do it quarterly for most stores
Enjoy your vids 🍻
You can learn something from everybody
make your life easier with a rachet wrench
Great Video Use PLASTIC SCRAPER
Strip
YOU DID NOT CLEAN THAT THING WTF! NEVER HIGHER THOSE PEOPLE!
Watching you use that wrench gave me a headache omg
Vaya dos chapuceros dejan el trabajo a medias en mi empresa estáriais en la calle al día siguiente.... y no lo escribe en inglés porque no tengo ni idea
Thatll be $1566.90
The store that I worked at needs their grease trap cleaned it smells like a, sewer and the smell makes you sick
We will see how things were in contact you in person or not you to see what they think the only time we have to pay it and
Why they still make the traps out of steel is what blows me away. The Can-Plas tanks are the better ones.
Absolutely! I say that to every kitchen manager that has one.. the plastic ones are easier to clean and they don’t break down. Still amazes me that they paint the inside of the steel ones 😂
@NYCPizzaman depends on the model. The rectangle ones are a bit cheaply built but easy to clean. The round lid ones are a little more involved to clean but are pretty sturdy.
Greasetraps are made from stainless steel for the same reason everything in kitchen is. Heat resistance, tensile strength and it's biologically neutral making it an antibacterial materia.
Plastic should never be used, when scratched it harbours millions of harmful bacteria that you cannot see with the naked eye.
6:23 Blurred face no more. Complete reveal.
😂 blur no more 😂
invest in some proper wrenches instead of using channel locks on everything , smfh
Invest on making your profile picture loose weight 😂😂😂
At my job they cleaned it out, and OMG it smelled like a sewer 🤮
Grease traps stink and should be banned or why not install it outside....Staff always complained of the smell I refused to work in the kitchen that had one..... You have to clean them out once a week or it will sting you with a huge smell.....
Yeah most of them always have a rotting smell to them.. there is nothing really that keeps the grease gases from coming out of the sink. Most of the places we work at only have a few sinks on them but they should be installed outside and no matter how small 👍
I believe most municipalities have minimum size capacity for outside traps. Where I'm at , most are at least 1000 gal regardless of the establishment. Which is ridiculous.
i dont mind poop and piss. but the smell of grease traps is absolutely disgusting... hate that part of the job.
Drain Pros ,,, Nothing Professional about that job.
Got grease on me alot and smelled like puke all day
I work in a coffee shop that has one of these and we have to clean it by hand ourselves! i'm fucking livd they get theirs done proffesionally xD you have NO IDEA what that smells like! we call ours the "poo box" so theres an indication of what the smell is like! it gets all over your skin and face and you smell like shit for days!
Watched till the end, if thats proffessionally cleaned i'll keep doing mine myself xD You could eat your dinner out of mine when i'm done
The pure fact this business is doing this during business hours is making me sick. I'm so glad the place I work for does this shit once a week and at night time when nobody is around!!!
yes and no,, what is making you sick , is this is what the American Public has in their arteries, this is now a global problem , heart disease , cheap fillers, lard, and cheap grade oils that is making the world sick.
As the world keeps eating out , more and more, we keep seeing the pregnant man look, which is non alcoholic fatty liver disease . 1 in 5 have it , 6 out of 10 in America is obese.
if you over eat, then bombard your system with other garbage, you body will never work as designed , So when you are backed up , and your poo poo stinks think of this video , as this is what we have inside of us.
All located in much narrower drain pipes , such as intestines , arteries ,, and colon , and there is no vacuum to clean us our.
The new silent epidemic,,, fatty liver disease is compounded by cortisol inefficiency, created by the over use of Coffee, and Sugar , coffee makes your liver , what is known as insulin resistant, Coffee with stress your liver for 6 to 8 hours, , please read up on this , and research this, most of your pregnant man look persons , are avid coffee drinkers , cake eaters, and or soda pop drinkers, and snackers , which then leads to over eating , because of these stresses on the liver and insulin spikes , and resistance, we never feel full, and then we have a tendency to over eat, and eat more often as we never feel full, which leads to our liver to malfunction and start to become fatty , .
We are being poisoned little by little, its ok if it does not kill you within two months , however , if it takes years to slowly kill you , its ok . Hope this helps
People are disgusting animals.
that s cheating hah
Now I have a serious question people?
Are grease traps the worst smell out there or is there something else worse??
I used to work at a restaurant where the grease trap would get backed up every few weeks. In turn we would have to open it up like this and clean it by hand with a spyder or strainer. Owners refused to pay for a service like this. I can handle some gross stuff when it comes to cleaning, but the smell these things produce can be downright awful. Fermented rotting food mixed with hot water. People would not enter the back at all when it was being cleaned
Crystallised urine from a urinal is pretty horrendous
@@diamondssd1 Everyone who uses the sinks should get a little training. If they dont put food grease and oil down the sinks then you will not have to clean the trap. Simple and common sense.