Car Wash Pit Cleaning in Indiana

Everything You Need to Know About Maintaining and Cleaning Your Car Wash Catch Basins

When a car drives into your car wash bay it can bring dirt, chemicals, leaves, road salt, paint, oil and more with it.

As soon as the water starts spraying and soap starts sudsing all of those contaminants and debris wash off the car and into your car wash pits.

The dirty refuse mixes with the water and soap to create a sludge underneath your car wash bay. As more and more customers drive through your car wash, the sludge builds up below.

Eventually, you’ll need to clear that sludge out. There are a few ways to do this such as using a septic company, shoveling it yourself, bagging it or using an excavator. But the fastest, most effective and most reliable method is to have your pits vacuumed out and the waste taken for processing.

Pit Crew specializes in car wash pit cleaning. Our team ensures your waste is removed quickly and keeps your Indiana car wash business from breaking any wastewater regulations.

Car Wash Pit Cleaners That Travel to You

Pit Crew brings our cleaning services to you. Our business started in Virginia and now serves car washes all over the Midwest and East Coast.

You can schedule regular pit cleanings or call us when an emergency occurs. A particularly busy month can put your car wash ahead of schedule and make you in desperate need of a thorough pit cleaning.

Our team helps you avoid clogged car wash pits and unusable car wash bays.

Call us for pit cleaning in every corner of Indiana including:

• Indianapolis
• Fort Wayne
• Evansville
• South Bend
• Carmel
• Fishers
• Bloomington
• Hammond
• Lafayette
• Gary

How to Properly Dispose of Your Car Wash Pit Sludge

Pit Crew uses a vacuum system to suction up the solid and liquid waste from your car wash pits. The sludge travels through a large hose into our truck. Once the sludge is in the truck, our crew transports it to a car wash waste-specific processing facility.

Because your waste is processed at a facility designed for car wash sludge, it is much easier and cheaper to get rid of.

Septic companies that generalize instead of specialize in waste processing end up having to charge much more and sometimes can’t properly get rid of your waste at all.

These septic businesses pump water and not dirt. But you’ve seen the bottom of your catch basin and you know you will need dirt pumping as well.

Our pit cleaning process has proven effective for over 20 years. You can get help cleaning car wash models such as:

• Self-serve bays
• Automatic (in-bay) rollovers
• Tunnel Washes

Car Wash Waste Regulations

The waste from your car wash can contain hazardous materials such as oil and grease.

Car washes deal with a number of pollutants that have disposal regulations under the Clean Water Act of 1972 such as:

• Conventional (oil and grease)
• Unconventional (chlorine, ammonia, phosphorus, and more)
• Toxic (metals and man-made compounds)

Most states across the United States do not allow car wash runoff to flow directly into storm drains due to the negative impacts on local fresh water sources.

Call Pit Crew for Timesaving Car Wash Pit Cleanings

If your pits are starting to fill up it’s time for a deep cleaning. Don’t bust out the shovel or blow your money away on an excavator. Pit Crew makes pit cleanings easy with affordable, efficient and reliable services.

Call us today to keep your pits from clogging up.