When it comes to drain cleaning, everyone knows acid drain cleaners. It destroys tree routes, rags, hair, fats,
and many other stubborn materials. But have you ever heard of enzyme drain cleaners? Unlike harsh
chemical drain cleaners, such as Caustic and Sulphuric Acid, enzyme drain cleaners work in a way
that is safe for your plumbing system, family, and pets. It is biodegradable, non-toxic, and
environmentally friendly making it good for the environment. Instead of using harsh
chemicals like Caustic or Acids, it contains bacteria and enzymes to specifically
improve liquefication, degradation and digestionof grease, fats and oils
trapped in your drains and allow them to be washed away.
What are enzymes?
Enzymes are biologically active proteins found everywhere in nature. When one substance needs to be transformed into another, nature uses enzymes to speed up and control the process. This is called catalysis, so enzymes are catalysts.
How does enzyme drain cleaners work?
When washing dishes grease and food particles wash down kitchen sinks, organic waste material flushes down toilets, and hair and skin particles wash down shower drains. Some of theist organic matter stick to the inside of the plumbing pipes. As time passes the organic matter catches more and more material, leading to unpleasant odours, slow water draining, and blocked drains.
Enzyme drain cleaners work by introducing enzymes and bacteria into these collections of organic matter. The enzymes break down the complex organic molecules into molecules the bacteria can eat. Given enough time, these enzymatic drain cleaners may even clear bad blocked drains.
Do Enzyme Drain Cleaners work?
An enzyme drain cleaner is most probably the best type of drain cleaner in the industry. It is safe for humans and pets. Easy to work with. Healthy towards the environment. Municipalities love it when the consumer uses enzyme-based products. Acid and Caustic base products are very dangerous to use. It is not safe for humans and pets. It creates years of delays in recovering the environment and it creates unnecessary expenses for municipalities to run their air flaunts. However, enzyme drain cleaners is not a magic product. Any enzyme product needs time to work unlike the harsh chemicals that will give you a quick fix to unblock your drain. If you have a blocked shower drain, bath drain, sink drain, or kitchen drain is most likely because of a buildup of organic matter inside of the drainpipes and the actual drain. Follow a simple drain maintenance program and save yourself a lot of unwanted problems and money. Dose a small amount of Enzymes at end of business or before bedtime.
After all, prevention is better than cure.
Can enzyme drain Cleaners unblock drains?
Enzyme drain cleaners will clean and unblock a blocked drain, but enzyme cleaners need a lot of time. Enzymatic drain cleaners don’t work as fast as caustic or acid drain cleaners for the process involves allowing tiny molecules andnatural bacteria to eat their way through your blocked drain. If the problem in the drain has been left for a long time the cleaning and unblocking of the drain willtake long, possibly even weeks. Once again follow a simple drain maintenance program and save yourself a lot of unwanted problems and money.
Dose a small amount of Enzymes at end of business or before bedtime. After all, prevention is better than cure.
How do you use an enzyme drain cleaner?
Follow a simple drain maintenance program and save yourself a lot of unwanted problems and money.
To kick start your house or commercial kitchen it is advised to dose 15ml into all kitchen sinks, bathroom sinks, bathtubs and alltoilets late at night before going to bed or before closing business. This prevents constant running of water and will aid the enzymes time to digest organic waste and to do its magic. This process must be done daily for a week thereafter once a month.
Directions for use with Geco Drain maintenance Cleaner:
Residential drains: Add 15ml into each drain for 5 days thereafter once a month.
Commercial drains: Add 180ml into each drain for 5 days thereafter 120ml once a month.
Grease traps: Add 300ml into 800 Litre grease trap daily.
Add 2 Litre into 2000 Litre grease trap daily.
Avoid using chlorine-based cleaners, disinfectants and anti-microbial products if possible, to avoid killing of the bacterial consortium in drains.
Can be dosed manually or through electronic dosing units. For best results apply to drains and grease traps at close of business or bedtime.
Dosing guidelines are recommendations only. Higher dosing rates may be required based on the drain size as well as the volume of
waste to degrade.
Regular addition of Geco Drain Maintenance Cleaner maintains a clean and odour-free system while keeping the
septic system active and alive. Another type of enzyme drain cleaner could come is solid form, powder form or even in your
daily cleaning materials such as floor and tile cleaners, bathroom cleaners, dishwashing liquids and even washing powders.
It is always recommended to use as mush cleaning materials as possible containing biological chemistry.
Advantages and Disadvantages of enzyme drain cleaners
There are many advantages to enzyme drain cleaners, however, we must remember that they are slow cleaners not magic.
Advantages:
Eco Friendly
Compared to chemical drain cleaners, enzyme-based drain cleaners are an environmentally friendly alternative. Chemical-based drain cleaners use a concentrated formula of strong chemicals, like hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, to burn through clogs and grease. While effective, these chemicals don’t belong in water systems and pose a potential threat to the environment. Enzyme cleaners, on the other hand, use eco-friendly ingredients and live organisms to work their magic. Like hiring a blocked drain plumber, enzyme drain cleaners are an environmentally safe alternative to harsh chemicals!
Easy On Your Pipes
It’s not unusual for older metal pipes to have plumbing issues, but you may be asking for more issues if you use chemical cleaners. Simply put, the chemical reaction that clears blockages can also hurt your plumbing system. For example, the chemical content in many brands of drain cleaner is corrosive to Galvanized steel and cast iron pipes. Some may argue that certain drain cleaners are less harmful on certain types of pipes, e.g. PVC pipes, but ultimately, physical drain cleaning is more effective at removing clogs and less risky to your plumbing system than a chemical liquid drain cleaner. So, if you want to avoid a costly drain repair, you might opt for enzyme cleaners instead!
Cost Effective
Hiring professional sewer and drain cleaning services isn’t cheap, and it’s an expense we’d all prefer to live without. Using a specially formulated enzyme cleaner on your pipes regularly can help prevent the buildup of grease, soap scum, food particles, and organic materials in your drains and sewer. Since prevention is the best cure, it’s safe to say that an enzyme drain cleaner is a useful tool to keep home maintenance costs low.
Prevent Clogs
Introducing concentrated enzymes and good bacteria cultures into your plumbing is a great way to prevent the buildup of organic materials and food waste in the pipes, and ultimately prevent needing plumbing drain services. If waste matter is breaking down before building up, you may prevent drain blockages for as long as you regularly maintain them.
Non-Toxic
Many chemical drain cleaners cause skin irritation upon contact, release toxic gas into the air, and are poisonous if ingested, making them dangerous around children and pets. Additionally, many brands are caustic drain cleaners, so, while they’re able to burn and corrode organic matter in the pipes, they’re able to do the same to you. If you keep drain cleaners with a dangerous chemical content in your home, make sure you keep them in a place safe from children! Like hiring a clogged drain plumber, an enzyme cleaner, on the other hand, is a much safer alternative.
Good For Septic Tanks
Unlike hiring professional plumbing drain cleaning services, using harsh chemical cleaners may clear your clog, but it can also kill the bacteria living in your septic tank, which is a big problem. The good bacteria and enzymes used in many popular brands of drain cleaner are helpful to your septic tank, as septic systems need natural bacteria to treat wastewater.
Disadvantages:
Enzyme Drain Cleaners Take Time
When using good bacteria and enzymes in drain cleaners it is very helpful to your septic tank, as septic systems need natural bacteria to treat grey and black water.Using harsh chemical cleaners may clear your blocked drain, but it can also kill the bacteria living in your septic tank. This will become a big and expensive problem.
Enzyme Drain Cleaners Shelf Life Is Shorter
Drain cleaners containing bacteriuria normally carry a one to two year shelve live max, weir hash chemicals such as caustic and sulphuric acid can remain on the shelves indefinitely. This would be one of the reasons why not all retail stores stock enzyme drain cleaners.
Enzyme Drain Cleaners Only Work On Organic Matter
When plastic or metal items has been flushed down the toilet and caused a blockage in your plumbing system, enzyme-based drain cleaners won’t work.
Enzyme based drain cleaners only eat organic matter. Using harsh chemicals creating high temperatures could deform the plastic or metal item and
could open your blocked drain. Our advice would be to call a professional plumber before it costs you a fortune.
Enzyme drain cleaners Versus chemical drain cleaners versus Physical Drain Cleaning
If you are following a drain maintenance program at home or at your workplace, then an enzyme drain cleaner is a great way to go. Using an enzyme product once a month is a great way to save money and to contribute to the environment. But, if you’re dealing with a blocked drain, you probably won’t have time to wait for the enzymes to do its thing. As a once of we advise you to use physical drain cleaning equipment such as plungers,drain augers, wire hangers, and vacuum cleaners to remove blockages without harming the plumbingsystem. If you don’t have the equipment or experience, then call a professional plumber. Harsh caustic and acid base drain cleanerswill unblock your drain today, but it’s not very effective long term. Caustic mixed with aluminium fillings will create a chemicalreaction once added to water. It will create a foam, reaching extreme high temperatures melting the oils and fats away. Sulphuric acid will also reach extreme temperatures eating roots, disintegrating cloths, hair and melt the oils and fatsin the plumbing pipes and drains. Both the above will not remove all the oils and fats making it a temporary fix. It is also very dangerous and could cause a lot of damage to you plumbing pipes, costing you a fortune. Once again, we emphasise to follow a simple drain maintenance program and save yourself a lot of unwanted problems and money. Dose a small amount of Geco Prozyme Drain Maintenance Cleaner at end of business or before bedtime. After all, preventionis betterthan cure. If you are in need of any drain cleaners, caustic base, acid base or biological base call Caprichemor any of our Chemical City retail store today.
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