Where kitchens actually stop
Grease trap & kitchen line services
Most kitchen stoppages do not happen in the trap. They happen in the lines running into and out of it, which is the part nobody services.
Trap pumping is a hauling service and it deals with what has collected inside the trap. What it does not touch is the run from the three-compartment sink and the dish pit into the trap, or the outlet run from the trap to the sewer. Those lines carry hot, liquid grease that stays liquid past the trap and then cools and hardens somewhere in the horizontal run where nobody can see it.
That is the line that closes during a Friday dinner service. We jet both sides of the trap on a schedule matched to your volume, and coordinate with whoever pumps your trap so both jobs happen on one visit instead of two.
Signs your kitchen line is closing
- Sinks draining slower toward the end of service
- Floor drains surfacing during a busy period
- Odor near the trap or the dish pit
- Backing up shortly after the trap was pumped
- Drain flies around prep or bar drains
What we service
- Inlet lines from sinks, dish pit and prep
- The trap outlet line through to the sewer
- Kitchen floor drains and trench drains
- Mop sink and bar drains on the same visit
Pumped last week and still backing up?
Then the trap was not the problem. An outlet line packed with hardened grease behaves exactly like a full trap from the kitchen side, and pumping it again will not change anything.
Straight answers
Questions about grease trap services
How often should kitchen grease lines be jetted?
It depends on your volume and menu, which is why we camera before quoting a schedule. A high-volume fryer kitchen is often quarterly. A cafe with limited cooking may comfortably go annually, and we will tell you that rather than sell you quarterly.
Do you pump the trap as well?
Trap pumping is a licensed hauling service, so we coordinate it with your hauler and handle every line into and out of the trap. One visit, both halves, one disruption to your kitchen.
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