What to Look for in a Pit Cleaning Company

As a car wash owner, you know how important it is to keep your tunnels and manual stations clean. Not only do you need to maintain the outside, but you also need to regularly clean your car wash pits.

The problem is finding the best way to clean out your dirty pits. Some car wash owners opt to buy pit cleaning equipment and do the job themselves. But it’s a time consuming and grimy, greasy process.

If you don’t want to spend the time or energy, and you want the job done right, then your best bet is to hire a pit cleaning service. But then that begs the question: what should you look for in a pit cleaning company?

While the decision ultimately comes to personal preference, there are some key factors that you should consider when looking for the right company.

Specialty Pit Cleaning Is Better Than General Cleaning Services

Most car wash businesses hire a waste cleaning company, meaning they specialize in cleaning and disposing of a wide variety of wastes.

These companies are like the handymen of waste management. They clean restaurant grease pits, sewage pumps, and everything in between. While they offer an “all-in-one” service, they also charge a lot more for their process.

Since they deal with such a wide range of materials, they have an equally large amount of ways to properly dispose of those materials. They need to separate the materials based on their matter, type, and whether they are hazardous or not.

Because of these specifications, these companies ultimately charge more, since they are doing more work to make sure the job is done correctly.

Your best bet is to find a company that specializes in car wash pit cleaning specifically. In comparison to these large companies, specialty services usually charge less, and they’ll most likely do the job quickly and efficiently.

Proper Waste Disposal Is Beyond Important

Once you’ve found a few car wash pit companies, it’s important to understand their process. Most importantly, you should know what they do with the waste after it’s cleaned from your car wash pit.

As the car wash owner, you could end up with a court case on your hands if the waste is not properly tested and disposed of.

While car wash sludge isn’t inherently toxic or hazardous, it has the potential. The dirt and debris that collects on vehicles could contain mercury, arsenic, and other harmful materials. The waste needs to be properly tested before being dumped in a landfill.

If the waste is not correctly tested, then it is illegal to throw away. Since you own the business where the waste comes from, legal responsibility falls on you.

For these reasons, it’s important to hire the right team. You need to be able to trust the car wash pit company and to understand their disposal process.

You Need the Responsible Experts

Now that you’re aware of what to look for in a car pit washing company, it’s time to conduct your own research.

If you’re on the east coast, you luckily don’t have to look far! Pit Crew specializes in cleaning car wash pits from automatic tunnels to manual stations. We also process our own waste with an environmentally-friendly method. Our mission is to provide efficient, high quality cleaning services while keeping costs low for car wash owners like yourself.

If your pits are in need of a good wash, call us! We’ll be your first and your last choice for car wash waste cleaning and disposal.