The Importance of Identifying Risks

We recently had a customer who decided to have us complete a preliminary plumbing walk-through of their facility in order
to see how they could benefit from having a plumbing PM.
A walk-through was completed and several challenges were found. Some minor challenges were found as well as a major. 
We walked the building and listen to the customers’ pain points. They said that when there is heavy rainfall several of the internal storm
drains will back up in their facility. We then took to the roof. We found 11 out of the 19 roof drains missing their restrictors. The
metering device slows the flow down so the storm system isn’t overwhelmed when draining. We were able to install the missing
components and this helped dramatically. We also check the storm sewer manhole on the property. We found a large piece of
concrete obstructing the drain that we were able to remove. This was also added to the storm drainage challenges.
MeadowBrook also inspected all the fixtures in the building. We found several fixtures constantly running water. Doesn’t seem like much but this is adding cost to the water bill each day, week, or month left unattended. We made several repairs and this is something we are
checking for this customer quarterly. 
The largest and most detrimental issue that was found was when we camera inspected the sanitary building drain. As we approached
just the foundation of the building, we found the building drain %60 collapsed. MeadowBrook was able to locate where the break was
and how deep. We recorded our findings and shared them with the customer. A game plan was made and we excavated and repairs the drain
off hours when no one was in the building causing no downtime on the customer’s production.