Installing A Brewery Floor Drain

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Installing a brewery floor drain.

At minimum install a 4 trench drain system for your brew house floor. The trench drain should be pre sloped for quicker drainage and offer a catch basin to catch solids before the effluent reaches the plumbing. Floors should have a recommended pitch of per foot towards drains. Floor drains are smaller and are generally cheaper and potenially more durable.

In some cases you will have no option but to install the device into an existing concrete floor. A trap will help to make cleaning your drain much easier and will keep larger debris out of the drain. Planning drainage for an existing floor. Cast iron and brass do not hold up over time in brewery applications due to cip chemicals and hydrogen sulfide gas.

A garage can be a messy place and keeping it clean is much less complicated if you can simply wash down the floor and allow the water to run into a floor drain. We recommend channel drains with stainless steel or fiberglass grating. For more videos about my life that revolves mainly around brewing beer at my brewery and at home dont forget to subscribe. Installing a floor drain in a garage.

The rotation of the filler can create a suction vortex drawing bacteria up from the drain and into the filler area. Thanks for watching please sub and thumb up the vidja son of a dick. This is the ideal option since you can easily pour the concrete over the floor drain without having to dig. Retrofit brewery flooring sloped to drains.

Plastics are not durable enough. Tips for installing a laundry room floor drain. One must weigh the costs and time required for each the following two sloping options. Installing floor drains directly under bottle or can fillers is not recommended.

Drains are required in the brewhouse fermentation walk in cooler if applicable boiler room and any other area where water and spillage may occur e g. In a high use. With abs pvc glue generously smear all surfaces of the pipe but do not use so much that the glue drips. New floor drains must be installed and floors must be sloped in the brewhouse bottling or canning and keg machine area.

With either option materials include cast iron brass plastics stainless steel and concrete. Fitting abs pipes is easier with practice.