Commercial Plumbing in Spartanburg, SC

A commercial kitchen is the hardest-working plumbing and gas system most businesses own. The gas line has to feed the fryers, the range, the ovens and the water heater all at once during a rush, and a line sized for the original equipment often struggles once a second fryer or a larger range is added. We check the load before new equipment goes on the line, and we connect it with the right connector, shutoff and restraint for equipment on casters.

Hot water is the other half. Health codes set water temperature expectations for handwashing and dish sanitizing, and a kitchen that runs out of hot water at the end of a shift is often running a heater that is undersized or full of sediment.

Kitchen drains carry grease. The grease trap or interceptor is there to catch it, but grease that gets past it hardens in the line and backs up the floor drains. We clear kitchen lines and find where the grease is getting through. Pumping the interceptor itself is done by a grease hauler, and your sewer provider may have its own rules on how often.

Most commercial plumbing calls are not dramatic. They are restroom fixtures, flush valves, water heaters, slow drains and leaks, in buildings that cannot shut down for a day while someone gets around to them. Churches often have kitchens that work hard a few times a week and sit idle the rest, which is hard on water heaters and drains alike.

For property managers and landlords, we work from your instructions on access and approval, report what we found, and give you a price before work starts. A tenant who calls at night gets a person on the phone, and you get a clear account of the repair afterward.

Commercial hot water comes from large tank heaters, from boosters that raise dishwasher water to sanitizing temperature, or from several tankless units linked together. Gas Guys is certified to install and service both Rinnai and Navien tankless water heaters, and both companies make commercial rack and manifold systems that tie several units together to share the load.

An array has an advantage a single big tank does not: if one unit needs service, the others keep running. It also needs a gas supply sized for all of the units firing at once, a venting plan, condensate drainage and regular descaling. We size the gas line for the full array, not one heater.

Commercial buildings often run gas at elevated pressure to a regulator near the equipment, with longer runs and larger pipe than a house. Adding or moving equipment means checking the pipe size against the new load, adding shutoffs and sediment traps, and pressure testing new piping under the fuel gas code before anything is connected.

We repair leaks, extend lines, connect new gas equipment and replace failed connectors and valves. When new piping or a new appliance connection goes in, it is permitted and inspected like any other gas work.

Commercial water services often have a backflow prevention assembly, which keeps water from the building from flowing back into the public supply. South Carolina requires public water systems to run a cross-connection control program, and Spartanburg Water, for example, requires certain commercial assemblies to be tested every year by a certified tester. Your water provider sets which assemblies and how often, so check with them on testing.

Commercial plumbing and gas work is permitted through the city building department inside city limits or the county's office outside them. We pull permits for the work we do and coordinate inspections around your business hours where the inspector's schedule allows.