There are many steps on how to clean your grease trap. There are also many ways of cleaning a grease trap and this depends on the size of your grease trap. Restaurants that use small grease traps can assign the cleaning work of grease traps to their maintenance staff while bigger food establishments are advised to hire a professional recycler or hauler to maintain their grease traps particularly due to the high amount of trapped fats, oils and greases (FOG).
Things needed
A certain method to clean your grease trap would require the use of oil dry, a large trash can, trash can liners or garbage bags. You will also need tools for removing trapped waste such as scoop and scrapers and proper tools to carefully open trap. Have paper towels and rubber gloves to prevent becoming messy.
The trash can liners should be placed in the trash can when preparing your work area. Also use oil dry so as to soak up water and liquid, and enable the safe and cleaner transport of the waste.
Steps in cleaning grease traps
An initial step on how to clean your grease trap includes the careful removal the lid of the trap. You must carefully study the position of the internal parts of trap after removal of the lid. These parts are to be removed prior to cleaning and should be reinstalled properly after cleaning the trap. You must also see whether the trap gasket is properly aligned prior to cleaning.
The main steps on how to clean your grease trap is vacuuming the waste from the trap. Vacuuming should be done until all waste contents are removed and the trap is empty. There is no need to apply degreasers or use water and soap as a finishing step.
After removing all the dirt and debris in the trap, reinstall properly the internal parts and the lid. The final step involves the tying up or proper sealing of the bag where the grease trap waste has been deposited before placing this bag in the garbage dumpster.