San Marcos, TX case study · April 2026
Grease line failure at a San Marcos campus-area kitchen
Commercial property owner · Campus-area restaurant building, San Marcos · Sewer Jetting & CCTV Verification
Drag the divider to compare. Before: Sewer camera view inside a San Marcos commercial kitchen grease line almost fully choked with layered hardened grease After: Sewer camera view of the same San Marcos kitchen grease line jetted back to bare cast iron at full diameter with clear flow
- Back in service
- Same day
- Health inspection
- Passed
- Pipe replacement
- Not needed
- Verification scope
- Included
The problem on this San Marcos site
A high-volume kitchen was days from a health inspection with a floor drain that would not clear. The operator had already replaced fixtures inside the building on the assumption the problem was upstream of the slab.
How our NASSCO-certified crew approached it
- Responded same day given the pending health inspection and scoped before selling any work
- Jetted the kitchen line back to bare cast iron and cleared the submerged interceptor outlet tee
- Confirmed on camera that the cast iron was sound, ending the fixture replacement theory
- Set the pump-out and jetting interval from measured grease loading and left the video on file for the inspector
What the camera documented
- Kitchen line reduced to a narrow opening by layered hardened grease across a long run
- Interceptor outlet tee partially submerged in accumulated solids
- Cast iron underneath the grease sound with no pitting failure or holes
- Backups traced to maintenance interval, not to the fixtures that had been replaced
Measurable results
- Jetted to bare pipe and verified on camera before the dinner service the same day
- Passed the health inspection that week with documentation on file
- Interceptor pump-out and jetting interval reset around the actual grease loading, not a guess
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