A study found that the wastewater system in a facility was a highly probable transition route during the 2003 SARS outbreak (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191284/). Specifically, airborne particulates within the system can be released when flushing or as water flows into a drain and splashes on top of the water already in a p-trap or sanitary waste […]
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Is your commercial kitchen or bar area infested with small annoying flies? Much smaller than the common house fly, these flies are often referred to as fruit flies, drain flies or sewer gnats. So maybe after having tried fly tapes, home remedies or even a professional pest control company you still aren’t satisfied with the […]
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Most people in charge of maintenance know that backups in their facility’s drains can result in costly downtime and frequent hydro jetting, but what is a less known fact is that not all drain line issues develop in the main drain line. Many issues can arise from a facility’s ancillary drain lines—the smaller lines that […]
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That rotten egg smell in a facility doesn’t just appear out of thin air; it actually doesn’t appear at all. The colorless gas that creates the odor is known as hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Its offensive scent is not only harmful to living creatures, it also has the potential to wreak havoc on your equipment, concrete […]
