Trash Chute Cleaning & Degreasing

Hot water reclamation pressure washing systems using suspended rotary vertical chute cleaning nozzles to pass up and down the vertical length of the trash chute cleaning the dirty inward facing surfaces of the chute.  Powerful vacuum systems augment the hot water pressure washers so that all the wash water can be safely contained and collected at the bottom of the chute, even in water sensitive, or leak prone indoor structures!

Vertical chute nozzles pass up and down the entire length of the chute, spraying a mixture of hot water and a powerful organic oils degreaser.

Powerful Commercial Grade Hot water pressure washers with full pressure detergent injection, and bio-enzymatic odor digesters power the chute nozzles, obliterating surface scum and unpleasant odors.

Powerful industrial vacuums for waste and wash water capture & reclamation, for indoor applications and leak prone structures, or to simply keep your drains clear.

Methodology - Trash Chute Cleaning

For most trash chutes a minimum of 3 workers are deployed in a service body truck with a mounted commercial hot water machine, towing a 500 gallon waste water reclamation vacuum. This equipment will be stationed as close as safely and practically possibly to the lower receiving area of the chute where the collection bins and compacting equipment sit. Upon arriving and checking in with our customer, one worker will head inside and begin placing signage on the access doors, closing the chute down on each floor directing residents or patrons of the structure to refrain from dropping anything in the chutes during the working period. In addition to closing down the chutes with signage, this worker also brings in a coiled rope to the day’s upper most floor we are working on that day. When ready this rope is secured to a fixture in the trash room of the day’s upper most floor and the rest dropped down the chute to the sea up team in the receiving area. The other two workers begin setting up down below by extending vacuum hoses, pressure hoses, actuation equipment, and a special rotary duct cleaning nozzle to be attached to the rope to be pulled up, slowly, floor by floor, under the watchful eye of a “middle man” who will move between floors as the chute nozzle passes each trash chute door. Once all the pressure washing and vacuum equipment are set up in the lower area, the workers take their respective stations. One on the top floor who will lift and lower the rope floor by floor for multiple up and down passes, one worker on the bottom to operate the pressure washer and the vacuum equipment and one rover moving between floors keeping pace with and monitoring the chute nozzle and facilitating communication between the actuator and operator on the bottom and the lifter on the top. The chute nozzle is powerful and spins very fast under high pressure spraying a mixture of heated water and a green seal certified degreaser for organic and food based oils. The rotary duct nozzle which sprays the inside walls of the chute at point blank range with hot highly pressurized water must be shut down as it passes each floor’s access door, to avoid setting off the fire suppression sprinkler heads if present on each floor for modern code, and also to prevent water and detergent from leaking through the sides of the access doors and making a mess on the floors and walls. Once the chute nozzle has made enough up and down passes in the each section of chute on each floor accessible through the access door on each floor, the nozzle is lowered all the way back down and is replaced by a hand held spray gun which is lifted back up to the top floor of the day’s allotted work area. The Top worker then works his way down floor by floor detailing each section of the chute just inside the access doors with the hand held spray gun, where the chute nozzle was shut down to avoid damage at each floor crossing. Generally speaking, we take on 10 to 12 floors in a standard working day, as the weight of the pressure hose pulling down on the bottom of the chute nozzle housing is too heavy to exceed this cleaning length and vertical rise. This also allows us to keep powered equipment out fo the building and of the roof…

Floors above 10-12, depending on the building, usually require a 4th worker, as the core 3 man team, must displace as a cohesive group, to a higher section comprising up to 10 more floors. This additional worker is required to keep a worker on the bottom most floor to operate the machines and capture waste water falling all the way down, while the usual 3 man team moves to a higher section of floors to be cleaned…

The end result is that every square inch of inward facing trash chute surface, has been cleaned with hot water and a degreaser at point blank range. This is currently the most effective and environmentally friendly cleaning process available anywhere, as no wash water will be discharged onsite, either to storm water or the building’s floor drains. Floor drain or trench drain covers are removed prior to work and small cones are placed upside down in the down pipes completely blocking them up from draining any wash water. Additionally, our powerful vacuums and pressure washers can be used to unclog neglected floor drains in a matter of seconds. The rotary roots blowers powering our waste water vacuum trailers will clear any clogged drain in 3 or 4 seconds with up to 20hg (inches of mercury) of negative vacuum pressure, no matter how badly they are clogged by grease and old emulsified oils as the weight and pressure of the atmosphere of the entire planet, will try to make it’s way in our vacuum tanks by going through any blocked portions of your floor drain plumbing…

We can also restock your supply of self service chute cleaning detergents and deodorizers for daily or weekly flushings with the built in cleaning systems installed on most modern chutes and share with your maintenance teams how to use them, if they are unaware of their presence or how to properly operate them…