Restaurant plumbing has its own rules. Health code compliance, after hours scheduling, fats, oils and grease management, and the constant requirement that a service call does not touch food production.

Quarterly hydrojet maintenance is the foundation of all of it. Grease builds in a commercial kitchen stack far faster than most owners expect, and leaving six to ten months between cleanings is enough for a backup to land in the middle of service. A quarterly contract on a single location is the cheapest insurance a restaurant buys against the 11 PM crisis call.

Most Vancouver restaurants have to run a grease interceptor under the kitchen sink and a main grease trap outdoors. We coordinate with the pumping companies on the schedule and handle the plumbing side: inlet and outlet lateral cleaning, vent stack maintenance and baffle inspection. When the prep sink backs up at 6:45 PM on a Friday, or sewage comes up through the basement floor drain mid Saturday brunch, maintenance contract clients jump the emergency queue.

Installing a new combi oven, a fryer line or a wok station needs gas fitter work. That is done in house, with City permits pulled and FortisBC coordination handled, priced per appliance line. And most of it happens after close. Two in the morning stack jets, midnight fixture replacements, overnight repipes during a closure window.

Strata buildings split the responsibility in two. The strata corporation owns the common areas, the shared stacks and the parkade drainage. Unit owners own in-suite fixtures and the supply lines downstream of the unit shut-off. We work both sides.

On the common areas that means shared horizontal stack hydrojetting at each floor cross-connection, vertical stack camera inspection, parkade catch basin cleaning and storm lateral maintenance, on a semi-annual or annual schedule depending on the size of the building and the traffic through it. Unit-level work runs through property management: the manager calls dispatch, we coordinate access with the owner, do the work, and invoice the manager.

Strata reserve studies need documented condition assessments of the major plumbing infrastructure. We hand over camera scope reports, written cause and condition assessments, and remaining service life estimates that a reserve planner can actually use. Every visit generates a certificate of service, a photo log, and a written report formatted for council meeting minutes.

Property management companies running three or more stratas get tiered pricing on annual contracts and a single point of contact through our commercial dispatch.

Why businesses here keep us on the schedule. Coverage is the first reason. Full general liability and full WCB on every commercial visit, with the documentation package emailed to property managers and insurance brokers whenever they ask for it.

The second is that we work when the building is empty. Restaurant kitchen jets at two in the morning, strata common-area work in the evening, parkade scheduling outside business hours, and no after hours premium for maintenance contract clients.

The third is the gas fitter. BC requires a certified gas fitter for any gas appliance install, and ours is on staff rather than subbed out. That means one point of accountability, one schedule to manage and a faster install.

And the fourth is portfolio pricing. Property management companies with three or more sites get tiered rates on annual contracts, a single dispatch contact, and a budget line they can actually predict. Across 86 Google reviews we sit at 4.9 stars, and Ryan reads and answers every one of them.