Here at Taylors Industrial Services, we provide a variety of services one of which is tank cleaning to an industry standard.

Taylors have a purpose-built tank wash-bay to enable our skilled team to handle all industrial cleaning tasks efficiently and thoroughly.

Each tank cleaning crew is equipped with a dedicated safety unit which contains all necessary cleaning and safety equipment.

We can also do onsite tank cleaning in; Dundee, Kirkwall, Inverness, Perth, Paisley, Kirkcaldy, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, the Outer Hebrides and the Shetlands.

We wanted to take you on a journey to explain the tank cleaning process;

Once the tank arrives on the site it is offloaded by the yard team where one of our chemists Duncan or Neil will take a sample from the tank to ascertain what exactly is in the tank to determine the best method of disposal.

Next, the cleaning team takes over; the tank is then drained and sent the determined route of disposal by the chemist whether that’s separating contents for repurposing, recycling or disposing of safely.

The tank is then checked to see if they are safe to enter for example if there are unsafe gases present – our team’s safety is paramount.

Then a cleaning team member is sent in and they use a mixture of high-pressure water, and soap (surfactants) as required to clean the tanks to industry standard.

The supervisor will then inspect the tanks to ensure that they have been cleaned to the required standard and issue a cleaning certificate.

Finally, the yard team will check a valid cleaning certificate is present and then load the lorry with the tanks.

We ensure that our team undertakes regular training to ensure that industry standards are met this training includes:

·        Confined space procedures

·        Atmospheric monitoring

·        Breathing apparatus and airline equipment

·        High pressure water jetting

·        The use of PPE and RPE

·        Scaffolding and LOLER operations

·        Manual handling

·        Safe quayside operations

We believe continual development and training is crucial to maintain standards.

We hope this gave you a bit of an insight into one of our important operations we carry out here at Taylors.

If you would like to find out more information feel free to browse our website: https://www.taylorsindustrial.co.uk/tank-cleaning or give us a call on: 01224 872 972.