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Use Best Plumbing Practices for your commercial facility
PLUMBING LINE RIDDLED WITH SOFT WATER RESIN (WHEN RESIN CAUSES YOUR RESTAURANT PLUMBING SYSTEM TO ACT UP)
When the filter beneath the gravel bed in a resin tank fails, which operates your soft water system, it will allow resin to pass into the plumbing lines becoming a nightmare to remove and could take weeks to fully flush out. When resin passes through the softeners gravel bed and into the hot water plumbing lines it can restrict water flow and get caught up in mixing valves, boiler, aerators, pumps, filters and whatever else is in its’ path. Resin beads look like tinny pink salmon eggs or very small bebe sized balls. If resin is gummy or flat chlorine has most likely damaged the resin.
PROTECTING YOUR DRAINS FROM FOG - FATS, OIL, GREASE
FOG (fats, oil and grease) are a real threat to your drain lines and grease trap if not managed properly. While you can control debris from getting into your drains you can’t stop FOG. FOG is a slow moving buildup of sludge in the drain lines clogging your plumbing systems while reducing the needed flow. The best practice to remove FOG requires the needed service of a plumber to clear the system in a way that keeps the restaurant running without disruption and damage to your drain lines
PLUMBING SYSTEM CROSSOVER
Have you ever experienced a toilet filled with hot water, a dish machine with extreme calcium build up or cold water coming out of what should be the hot water line or vice versa? If you have seen this or other oddities then you have witnessed crossover. Hot or cold water crossover occurs when one overpowers the other and takes over the water plumbing system.
PLUMBING LINE ODORS
Odors cause customers and staff to cringe. Odors can be very hard to find. With differing pressures of air and water moving through the drains and rooms odors can shift direction or become intermittent making it extremely hard to find. So the question is “How is an odor located and resolved”?
HOW DRAINS GET CLOGGED
Preventing drain clogs are easy and can save you thousands a year if you protect them and provide a suitable preventative maintenance service
