It is Important to keep a Clean Grease Trap. A grease trap may stop functioning efficiently.

Here are 5 reasons why grease trap pumping is essential for good business.

1. It Can Cause Widespread Damage

Leaving a grease trap unattended for too long can cause major damage. Being an interceptor for grease and other forms of organic waste, a grease trap can quickly become filled with a solid mass of organic waste, since fats solidify at room temperature. Allowing a grease trap to overflow can result in these fats flowing into your building's water drainage systems and solidifying inside the pipes, clogging them.

2. It Violates Health Code Laws

Grease trap pumping is essential for good business. Health inspectors will conduct regular tests of both your grease trap and the

surrounding systems to ensure there's no overflow and cross-contamination between the two.

3. It Can Harm the Environment

A backed-up system can produce grease runoff which is terrible for the natural environment. It may harm local wildlife and vegetation, and invite pests such as drain flies, which breed in gelatinous fats like those found in grease traps.

4. It's a Bacterial Breeding Ground

Grease trap pumping is essential partly due to practical sanitation reasons. Since grease traps hold a large amount of stagnant food waste, they can easily become breeding grounds for all sorts of harmful bacteria. Not only is the unsanitary, but it often leaves the trap with a very unpleasant smell. This gets even worse if water happens to combine with the bacteria and liquid fat in the system, as this results in toxic sulfuric acid, which is powerful enough to eat through the concrete and steel foundation of the trap.

5. It's Bad for Business

Issues with plumbing, damage to the environment, and penalties from health code violations are bad enough on their own, but they all come together to create an environment that is terrible for business. Leaving your grease trap uncleaned is setting yourself up for a number of problems that might ultimately take your business down if they aren't addressed quickly and properly.

Don't wait for a disaster to befall your business. Call 1st Choice Grease Service today! A little preventative maintenance can go a very long way.