Twice now I’ve gone out to eat at a local restaurant and seen this…
As you can imagine it drives me nuts. Is this only for hot water guys or can my cold water machine get it up? It’s purely foot traffic, nothing around the back entrance.
I started some restaurants before I had hot water and yes it can be done, you will need to use a hotter solution (I usually Hydroxide/Soap) and some scrubbing with a deck brush. With heat, it is a whole lot easier. It will not look great after the first service, I find after 2-3 services we have it looking really good and maintain there on out.
It is a mixture of grease and grime. Almost every restaurant will see this around 15,000 guest coming in and out the doors. The grease works it way out of the kitchen by employees feet and spreads throughout the entire building thus out all the doors. I bet their back door area is awful if their front door area looks like that.
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Were do you purchase you sodium Hydroxide?
Thanks @Hotshot! The dude (@CFH) nailed it. I do this every 3 months now and still don’t have hot water. Still does a good job but like dude said, a good sodium hydroxide degreaser and a quick scrub in/dwell is needed.
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I purchased a fiver on eBay for $110 with free shipping.
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Lol. Just curious is all.
What do y’all use it for ? Hot up your mix or something?
I was typing, where we going? I like road trips. Buts I goggled it on the interwebs. 
, thought ya had me, Didn’t ya @dperez?
you can clean it with cold water with right chems but not going to be as good as it would be with hot.
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We clean restaurants with cold water. Here is a rear entrance we cleaned not long ago. We used Spartan Tough on Grease Industrial Cleaner/Degreaser. It removes animal fat and petroleum based products. I get it locally but you can buy it from Amazon and it works pretty good.
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Do you do alot of restuarant flat work where a degreaser is used @gbattle ? I was just looking at the price on spartan, Man that’s high dollar stuff .
$17/gallon currently on Amazon.
You could check to see if a local company sells it near you and see what their pricing is.
Yes but I purchase it local by the case and get it a little cheaper than Amazon. I only use a few ounces per gallon and I’ve also used it to remove skid steer marks from concrete.
I’ll have to try it someday. we use degreaser now that is $270 for 6 gallons but it makes 55 gallons of hot concentrate, then we cut that down to 30% to clean off 5th wheel grease. 20% for diesel motors and 15% for general oil and grease melting like your flat work, 10% to melt bugs off anything that there stuck to.
Always looking for other cool products is all. @gbattle, thanks.
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