Hood Cleaning waste water removal

I have a customer who wants me to remove the greasy waste water off site. He claimes that when we dump into his grease trap it adds 2" of grease to it , thus causing more frequent grease trap pumping. I disagree. I know we might be a factor but it is his grease. We take care to skim grease off before pouring into the drain. Have any of you other contractor encountered this ? If so how did you deal with it? Oh, and to top this off he doesnt want anything added to the price.

Any suggestions?

Michel T / Centex Pressure Washing Service

I would find another customer. After chemicals, the grease is reduced to soap(animal fat and lye) and the scraped grease would or could go into the dumpster. If anything the cleaning would help him.

Good Luck

David

I have been blamed for pluggin up drains before, but usually a bit of investigation will find someone in the resturant who will tell you that there was a problem w/slow drains before you showed up. I did have a mexican resturant that wanted the water dumped into the grease barrel. I dumped most of the water in the sink, dumping just a bit into the barrelfor appearance. If the drain is clean, you won't plug the piping. This assumes that the chunks of grease are dumped into the trash can. If you are in a place w/slow drains, run hot water first, then empty your water. Follow w/more hot water. If the drain is slow, try using the PW to clean the drain. Follow with some hood cleaning chemical and let it sit while you do the hand work. Finish w/more hot water down the drain. My experience has been the stuff we dump down the drain still has enough strength to move the waste into the main drains w/o causing any problems. you can always use the toilet to dump water, that is usually a 4 inch pipe.

Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc