Garage Floor Drain Oil Separator

Remove sediment and mud pan and clean it.

Garage floor drain oil separator.

I built my own oil water separator for the drain in my garage. Some people worry about oil getting into the floor drains and causing pollution of the ecosystem. Because the drain was in the floor of a garage space it needed an oil water separator. That is a valid concern if you have a massive oil spill in a garage.

Remove the inlet grate. The smallest unit has a 12 pound greasy sludge capacity and a 3 5 gallon liquid holding capacity. Applications rockford oil separators are designed to receive directly from plant equipment or floor drains various kinds of oils gasoline kerosene naphtha benzene other volatile liquid waste and sludge. Interceptors direct stocks five 5 sd combination floor drain separators.

The pipe drains to the ground outside about 40 feet from the garage door. Replace u screen sediment and mud pan and inlet grate. Scoop out heavy sludge from bottom of unit. Before buying the drain parts i did some research.

They are all manufactured by rockford separators and constructed using an all welded low carbon steel design. That s a contraption for lack of a better word that prevents oil that might wash away from vehicles from getting into the ground. That s a valid concern if you have a massive oil spill in a garage. The largest unit has a greasy sludge capacity of 193 pounds and liquid holding capacity of 55 gallons.

Lift out v shaped filter screen and u shaped separator screen. They retain this harmful waste matter and prevent its entry into the drainage system providing triple advantages. I didn t install an oil separator and it s not required by the code. Quite a few subscribers were wondering where the drain water goes from the garage and if i had installed an oil separator.

Instead it s trapped and when enough has accumulated can be cleaned out.