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If you run a restaurant in the St. Louis area, then you undoubtedly have a lot on your plate\u2014pun intended. The good news is, for all your plumbing needs, all you need to do is give our team a call. This is true for your piping needs, as well as things like grease traps.<\/p>\n
Grease traps are something a lot of our customers have questions about, and we\u2019re here to answer those questions. If there\u2019s anything we haven\u2019t covered below that you\u2019d like to know more about, please don\u2019t hesitate to give us a call!<\/p>\n
Also referred to as grease interceptors, the grease trap is a plumbing attachment that does exactly what the name implies. It traps grease in order to prevent it from traveling from your drains to the public sewage system.<\/p>\n
Grease traps contain components called baffles, which separate out fats, oils, and grease (FOG) from the wastewater, and allow these lighter-than-water materials to float to the top of the trap, letting water continue into the sewer system.<\/p>\n
Another question we get is if grease is really that bad of a problem. The thing is, FOG appears harmless in hot liquid form, but this is the trick. When FOG cools off, it solidifies and congeals. This can quickly lead to pipe blockage.<\/p>\n
With a commercial kitchen, where a large amount of FOG goes down the drains daily, this can mean trouble for the city\u2019s wastewater system, and it can mean environmental harm. A grease trap isn\u2019t just protecting your business\u2019s plumbing\u2014it\u2019s protecting the community\u2019s plumbing.<\/p>\n
So, if your business is a restaurant or a food service establishment of any kind, you absolutely need a grease trap in place. Some businesses are exempt, such as residential properties where food prep happens, but food isn\u2019t sold from.<\/p>\n
When it doubt on whether it\u2019s required for your business, be sure to call on a licensed commercial plumber who is familiar with the local code requirements. The last thing you need is for your foodservice company to be shut down due to a health code violation that would have been easy to avoid.<\/p>\n
You might! The most popular type of grease trap is an under-the-counter system. This sounds easy to spot, but it actually might not be. We recommend that you check on a plumbing schematic for your facility, if there is one, and the grease trap should be marked here.<\/p>\n
There are also larger outside grease traps buried in the ground, and you should find this marked on the schematic, too. If you don\u2019t have this available, of you don\u2019t otherwise know if your business has a grease trap, the best thing to do is contact our plumbers to help you out.<\/p>\n
Grease traps must be regularly cleaned out, and checked for proper operation. Maintenance isn\u2019t something you should do on your own\u2014in fact, we\u2019d wager that you wouldn\u2019t want to anyway! Just give our commercial plumbers a call for this job.<\/p>\n
To learn more about grease traps in St. Louis, MO<\/a> and to schedule service for yours, contact Performance Plumbing<\/a> today. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If there\u2019s anything we haven\u2019t covered below that you\u2019d like to know more about, please don\u2019t hesitate to give us a call!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[131,91],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing-service","tag-grease-traps","tag-st-louis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceplumbinginc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}