Garage Floor Drain Oil Separator

That s a valid concern if you have a massive oil spill in a garage.

Garage floor drain oil separator.

Remove the inlet grate. They retain this harmful waste matter and prevent its entry into the drainage system providing triple advantages. Lift out v shaped filter screen and u shaped separator screen. Applications rockford oil separators are designed to receive directly from plant equipment or floor drains various kinds of oils gasoline kerosene naphtha benzene other volatile liquid waste and sludge.

That s a contraption for lack of a better word that prevents oil that might wash away from vehicles from getting into the ground. The pipe drains to the ground outside about 40 feet from the garage door. Replace u screen sediment and mud pan and inlet grate. Remove sediment and mud pan and clean it.

That is a valid concern if you have a massive oil spill in a garage. The smallest unit has a 12 pound greasy sludge capacity and a 3 5 gallon liquid holding capacity. Scoop out heavy sludge from bottom of unit. Interceptors direct stocks five 5 sd combination floor drain separators.

Instead it s trapped and when enough has accumulated can be cleaned out. Because the drain was in the floor of a garage space it needed an oil water separator. I built my own oil water separator for the drain in my garage. The largest unit has a greasy sludge capacity of 193 pounds and liquid holding capacity of 55 gallons.

Quite a few subscribers were wondering where the drain water goes from the garage and if i had installed an oil separator. I maintain this is a rare. Before buying the drain parts i did some research. I didn t install an oil separator and it s not required by the code.

They are all manufactured by rockford separators and constructed using an all welded low carbon steel design.