The Benefits of Hydro-Jetting for Restaurants
Every restaurant needs a clean and high-functioning plumbing system. Unfortunately, restaurant plumbing systems experience high demand and accelerated wear, which constantly undermines their integrity. Nearly everything that goes down a restaurant’s drains leaves greasy or tacky residues behind. Residual cooking oils, rendered fats, and general food waste gradually decrease the interior diameter of drain pipes.
Even the fresh, potable water that flows down restaurant drains contributes to in-pipe buildups. Over time, heavy deposits of hard water sediment create the conditions for blockages, backups, and more. Worse still, these same conditions also exist in sewer lines.
Hydro-jetting is a corrective and preventive plumbing treatment. Hydro-jetting breaks down stubborn buildups and pushes them to the municipal sewer main. When performed as preventive maintenance, it staves off problems like foul-smelling and slow-moving drains and limits the risk of overflows. At Miami Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, we’re sharing the impressive benefits of hydro-jetting for companies in the food service industry.
What Hydro-Jetting Is and How It Works
Hydro-jetting is a popular drain cleaning technique that uses high-pressure jets of water to flush out drain pipes and sewer lines. During hydro-jetting, plumbers insert slim, pressurized hoses into plumbing cleanouts or other access points. Performed at pressure levels as high as 4,000 pounds per square inch (psi), hydro-jetting breaks through greasy buildups. It sloughs off tough, in-pipe coatings and leaves pipe walls pristine.
By flushing the resulting waste out of plumbing systems, hydro-jetting leaves drain pipes wide open. This gives waste and wastewater more room to move through and expedites waste flow.
The Benefits of Restaurant Hydro-Jetting
Malodorous and slow-moving drains are bad for business. They slow down work processes. They also create the conditions for health code violations, illness, and poor customer satisfaction. Hydro-jetting can both prevent and correct these problems and more.
Keep Wastewater Moving Swiftly
Routine hydro-jetting primes commercial drain pipes for the tough task of handling greasy wastewater. Hydro-jetting can simultaneously eliminate hard water buildups and food debris. By keeping drain pipes open and optimizing waste flow, it minimizes the risk of drain clogs and slow-moving drains. For most restaurants, the best schedule for preventive hydro-jetting is every three to six months.
Enjoy Business Continuity
Few things can bring restaurants to a grinding halt like plumbing problems. Drain blockages and overflows impede food prep, dishwashing, beverage service, and more. With preventive drain cleaning, companies can avoid work stoppages and temporary closures.
Eliminate Foul Drain Odors
Among the top signs of slow-moving drains are pungent and pervasive drain odors. Decaying foods and odor-causing bacteria can permeate kitchens and food service areas. Just as hydro-jetting can stave off slow-moving drains and drain odors, it can also correct them.
Prevent or Eliminate Drain Gnat Infestations
Dirty drains create the ideal conditions for drain gnat infestations. Drain gnats lay eggs in the moist grime that coats dirty drains and drain pipes. In Miami’s tropical monsoon climate, drain flies naturally abound.
When these insects flourish in restaurant drains, they become a nuisance in food preparation and food service areas. They hover over and settle on food and beverages, and they make dining in all-around unpleasant. Preventive hydro-jetting helps companies avoid these infestations. Corrective hydro-jetting flushes existing drain gnats, eggs, and larvae out.
Support Balanced Humidity
As the trapped water in clogged and slow-moving drains evaporates, it adds moisture to the indoor air. Throughout much of the year, popular Miami restaurants spend small fortunes to keep their establishments cool and dry. Dirty drains increase the work that air conditioners must perform for both temperature control and humidity extraction. This accelerates AC wear and increases energy costs. With regular drain cleaning, restaurant owners can protect their AC systems and affordably maintain the conditions their patrons want.
Maintaining balanced humidity with regular drain cleaning also prevents mold problems. By keeping drains swift-moving, hydro-jetting can help you avoid rank, moldering odors, drywall damage, and other mold-related issues.
Ensure Effective Pest Management
Every restaurant owner in Miami needs a multi-pronged and ongoing pest management plan.
Miami’s warm, humid weather supports abundant populations of:
- Cockroaches
- Ants
- Flies
- Rodents
- Fruit flies
Dirty drains can attract, harbor, and nourish all of these common pests. Hydro-jetting flushes out the built-up, odorous waste that attracts pests. By breaking down and moving heavy sediment deposits, it also protects the integrity of drain and sewer pipes. This makes them less likely to crack, leak, and provide accessible sources of water.
Routine hydro-jetting is an important part of a restaurant’s ongoing pest management plan. Keeping restaurant drains clean staves off serious infestations and makes it easier to treat existing pest problems.
Health Compliance
In Miami, dirty drains can lead to temporary closures due to several health code violations. Under the Florida Statute 386.041, any condition capable of breeding flies, causing disease, or transmitting illness to humans is a health violation. Dirty drains tick these boxes and more. With the right preventive hydro-jetting schedule, restaurants can confidently pass health inspections every time. Companies that have failed recent health inspections can achieve compliance and peace of mind with hydro-jetting service from Miami Benjamin Franklin.
Hydro-Jetting and Tree Root Intrusion
Tree root intrusion is a major and common cause of sewer line damage in Miami, and restaurants are no exception. When aggressive tree roots or weeds enter sewer pipes, they grow exponentially. With access to abundant nutrients and moisture, these growths can block sewer pipes completely. When they do, raw sewage can come backing up into all of a restaurant’s drains and plumbing-connected appliances.
Hydro-jetting is powerful enough to break through invasive tree roots and weeds that encroach upon sewer lines. Scheduling hydro-jetting every three to six months will break invasive roots down before they have the chance to cause serious problems. If you have multiple slow-moving drains, pungent sewer gas odors, or noisy drains, scheduling hydro-jetting now could help you avoid a costly whole-building backup.
Miami Benjamin Franklin Plumbing offers commercial hydro-jetting for drain and sewer line maintenance and repairs. We also leverage the latest and most effective diagnostic tools to inform our work. To keep your commercial drains clean and swift-moving, give Miami Benjamin Franklin Plumbing a call now. With upfront pricing, consistently excellent workmanship, and on-time arrivals, we’re a top choice for restaurant hydro-jetting. If there’s any delay, it’s YOU we pay!
