Preventive Plumbing Maintenance for Phoenix Businesses

A preventive visit is scheduled work on the parts of your plumbing that fail slowly. For most Valley businesses that comes down to four things: cleaning the lines that carry grease and soap, testing the assemblies the city requires you to test, looking inside the lines that keep slowing down, and checking the fixtures and shutoffs nobody touches until an emergency.

We set the schedule around your hours. At a restaurant, inside work happens before opening or after close and usually takes one to two hours. Retail centers and apartment communities get windows that avoid peak traffic.

Hydro jetting is the core of most programs. We jet restaurant laterals from the inside with a small hose, and we jet the main out toward the city sewer separately, because a clean branch line does not help if the trunk is half full of grease. Soda and ice-well drains get jetted with a cleaning solution, since they smell long before they back up.

How often depends on what goes down the line. A kitchen frying all day builds up faster than a coffee counter. We log the date against your account, so the next visit is based on what we found last time, not on a guess. Compare it with the plan in commercial plumbing preventive maintenance, and see hydro jetting for the method.

Phoenix puts hydromechanical interceptors on a 30-day cleaning cycle, and no more than 90 days without maintenance. Gravity interceptors go at least once every 3 months. A licensed pumper does the cleaning, not us. What we add to the schedule is the inspection after the tank is empty: baffles, tees and standpipes, which are the parts that fail quietly. If something is broken, we repair it right after the pumper leaves. Each cleaning invoice and repair note goes in your three-year record file, which the city can ask to see. Details are on our grease trap service page.

The annual test is the item most often missed, because it falls on a date nobody owns. We test domestic backflow assemblies, repair or replace the ones that fail, and file the results with the city. In a portfolio, we line up the due dates so a property manager gets one list instead of a dozen notices. See commercial backflow testing requirements.

When a line has been jetted twice in a year and still slows down, the answer is a look inside, not a third jetting. Our sewer camera inspection shows a belly, a root intrusion or a crack, and it turns a recurring call into a repair plan.

A fixture round covers flushometers, hand sinks, mop sinks, hose bibs and visible shutoffs. EPA's WaterSense guidance recommends reading the water meter regularly and walking the building looking and listening for leaks. A meter that moves overnight when the building is closed tells you something is leaking before the bill does. If it does, leak detection finds the line.

Every visit leaves a record: date, location, what we found, what we did and what we recommend next. For restaurants, that record sits alongside your interceptor invoices. For apartments and retail centers, it gives the property manager something to hand an owner. We do not put prices in a schedule on this page, because the right frequency depends on your building. We give an upfront price before any work starts, and free estimates for the repair work a visit turns up.

If your building is new, small or lightly used, you may not need recurring visits at all. An annual backflow test and a call when something slows down is a perfectly reasonable plan for an office suite. A program also cannot fix a line that is broken. A collapsed or bellied pipe needs a repair, and jetting it on a schedule just delays the day you dig. And if the grease is coming from the kitchen's habits, the fix may be in how the line cooks scrape plates, before it is in our schedule.

Tell us your property type, the number of locations, which lines back up and when your last backflow test was. We will suggest a first visit, then set the rhythm from what we find. If you run more than one site, see multi-location plumbing service. For restaurants, see restaurant group plumbing service, and for apartments and retail centers see property manager plumbing service.