Restaurant smell like an outhouse

4/11/2022 (Permalink)

Removing tainted sand.

Every restaurant owners worst nightmare is to have foul odors in the dining room.  It happens more often than you would think.  And it can be very difficult to identify the source, repair the cause and remove affected material.

St. Joseph Michigan has a few fine restaurants with similar nightmares.  Old facilities that have added on rooms as the business grew.  Shallow crawl spaces with water lines, sewage drain lines and dishwasher/garbage disposal lines.  Pipes break, PVC breaks or becomes disconnected and they drain into the crawl space. Usually undetected until the nightmare is full on.

The pictured crawl space had 10 yards of affected material that had to be removed.  The only way to reach the sewage saturated sand was through the floor.  It took a skinny plumber to repair the line and 4 people 8 hours to successfully remove the problem.  And the restaurant immediately smelled great.  

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