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The Best Way to Clean Commercial Kitchens

Steam cleaners are some of the ideal cleaning machines to use in commercial kitchens and restaurants. There are a number of challenging cleaning tasks to keep these places thoroughly clean. Stringent levels of hygiene and cleanliness need to be maintained, since a dirty kitchen can easily cause a loss of clients, reputation, and even the restaurant’s license. However, in the fast-paced food service environment it is often not feasible to invest massive amounts of time to clean kitchen surfaces. Therefore, the ideal cleaning machines to clean these areas swiftly and effectively are commercial steam cleaners or vapor steam cleaners.

There are three main reasons why cleaning commercial kitchens can be difficult. One reason is traffic. Unlike domestic kitchens, commercial areas have a number of people coming in and out at any given time. People come from outside with supplies, waiters move back and forth between the kitchen and the tables, and bussers are continually bringing in dirty dishes and glasses. This provides for a constant stream of dirt coming in from different areas. While the floors collect most of this dirt, the counters and other surfaces are also affected.

The second aspect to think about is food preparation. Commercial kitchens deal with the preparation of a variety of different foods at the same time. In a small restaurant kitchen it is not unusual for meats, sauces, and desserts to be prepared in close proximity. Especially in the case of meat and farm preparations, the surfaces need to be as clean as possible. This leads us to our final aspect: cleaning up. Oftentimes, a kitchen counter will need to be swiftly cleaned and used for another preparation. In these cases, thorough cleaning is essential to prevent incidents like meat juices seeping into other preparations.

The Steam Cleaning Edge

It is true that some commercial kitchens might appear to require industrial steam cleaners to clean areas like the grills and exhaust hoods. However, the commercial models offer adequate cleaning power to face many deposits commonly found in kitchens. Other cleaning methods rely on chemicals to remove stains and bacteria. The disadvantage of this is that chemicals are not always effective and they might leave behind toxic traces that can contaminate the food.

Vapor steam cleaners and industrial steam cleaners use the power of steam to loosen and remove stubborn stains. These steam cleaning machines work towards dissolving and melting away dirt, debris, and food residues that might have hardened to kitchen surfaces. Top systems can even be bought with anti-bacterial technology to help eliminate over 99 percent of bacteria and germs. This is particularly beneficial in commercial kitchen environments where food is prepared, as it ensures the health and country of your customers.

Instead of using harmful chemicals that can harm the individual or customers, it makes more sense to use steam cleaning machines to safely remove most dirt and stains from kitchen surfaces. If more power is desired, think about pairing a steam cleaning system with a green cleaner. This is a innocuous and effective way to enhance cleaning power, as green chemicals are non-toxic, readily biodegradable, and environmentally-safe.

How To Repair The Leaking Water Pipe

Let’s see how simple it is to fix that dripping and give you peace of mind. With some of the fantastic improvements in plumbing fittings in the last few years, plumbing repair has been prefabricated very simple.

Many leaks are caused by just a couple of things. The pin hole in the copper pipe that is caused by pitting inside the pipe. Usually this is caused by poor water quality. The inside of the pipe flakes off to cause a hole inside the pipe that eventually gets through to the outside. These often are given away by the green spot that usually is seen on the outside of the copper pipe first. This is caused by mineral left by the water evaporating off of the surface of the pipe. So in all reality there is a leak before there is a leak. The other main problem is the joining of two dissimilar types of pipes. Copper and PVC or Copper and Pex are two examples. The expansion rate of the two different types of materials is very different. This causes friction and constant movement where the two meet. This movement eventually will cause enough of a gap to grant the water to leak out.

Until recently there where many redneck repairs out there most involving garden hoses, inner tubes, hose clamps, epoxy, and many other creative fixes. I have seen way too many to describe all of them. Now there is a great way to fix those leaks with a simple near fitting. The new design of the near fitting grants for the pipe to be cut at the hole and then a coupling just pushed onto the pipe to fix the leak. The hardest part of the whole process is to get the pipe cut neatly. The same fitting can also be used to replace those pesky plastic to copper unions that always seem to give trouble. Joining different types of piping is no longer a problem.

By doing a swift search for near fitting you can find a number of different suppliers of this type of fitting. I have used a number of different ones and they all seem to work well. My preference is the brass types as they seem to be much more rugged in construction. The price of those fittings also reflects that. The most common that I have seen and used are the Sharkbite Brand. These are very good, are sold in many plumbing supply houses, and in Home Depot Stores. Other companies include Watts, Probite, Tectite, and Speedfit. I’m sure that I have left some out. These are some that I am familiar with and have used.

Bottom line is that it is now very simple for even a desk jockey to fix his own pipes. Go by the closet home improvement store on your way home. Pick up some of these fittings and impress the wife with talents that she did not know you had. You might even get brave and do that small plumbing project that she has been solicitation for. Now you can use these fittings to cut into that water line to run that new outside faucet or hookup that water filter yourself. With the near type fitting plumbing has been prefabricated simple enough for anyone to be healthy to do it.

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