Grease Trap Cleaning Bard College

• Odor That Keeps Coming Back — If your kitchen or dining room has a persistent drain odor, the source is almost certainly the bacterial colony living in the grease film coating your trap's interior walls. Physical degreasing removes it.
• Baffle Failure from Preventable Wear — Baffles that are never cleaned accumulate grease and solid material that adds physical stress and speeds up wear.
• Citations for Condition During Health Inspection — Health inspectors in many parts of Bard College, NY assess trap condition, not just service frequency. Residue on walls and buildup around baffles can still generate a citation.
• Narrowing Drain Flow from Uncleaned Pipes — Inlet and outlet pipe walls accumulate grease incrementally. Cleaning the pipes prevents that progression entirely.

A grease trap doesn't operate in isolation. Its performance is directly shaped by the condition of the drain lines feeding into it and the sewer connection at the outlet.

When kitchen drain lines accumulate grease buildup, flow slows and the trap fills faster than designed. Drain line degreasing done in conjunction with trap cleaning resets the entire upstream system.

When Cari Grease cleans a trap in Bard College, we look at the whole picture. If we see something developing in the connected system, we flag it. A clean trap feeding into a restricted drain line is still a compromised system.

• We treat cleaning as a distinct service with its own scope — not pumping with an extra step tacked on.
• The inspection runs throughout. Every surface we clean is a surface we can assess. We track condition between visits.
• We build cleaning frequency into your program based on your kitchen's specific profile. A fry-heavy high-volume kitchen accumulates wall buildup significantly faster.
• Cleaning is scheduled around your kitchen's hours. We work during prep windows, between service periods, or during full closings.