Welding for a restaurant comes with stricter requirements than other industries. Without proper care, it’s easy to create porous surfaces or tight corners that collect bacteria. A welding service can help keep your kitchen sanitary and easy to clean by avoiding these common pitfalls.

What Are Some Common Mistakes When Welding for Restaurants?

1. Leaving Burrs & Sharps

Cutting, shaping, and welding metal often creates jagged edges that can catch clothing or skin. This is a problem for almost any project involving metal, but it’s an especially major issue in a kitchen where the staff has to work quickly. All metal equipment and areas should be finished to remove sharp edges.

2. Stressing Surfaces

Metal that is heated and cooled incorrectly or subjected to too much force can lose its surface integrity. It can form cracks or damage the protective oxide layer on stainless steel.

As a result, the metal becomes much more vulnerable to corrosion, which creates an even more pitted surface that’s difficult to sanitize. Welders have to take care to avoid techniques that will stress the metal, keeping in mind the tolerances of different materials.

3. Using the Wrong Materials

Another mistake that leads to corrosion is attaching two different kinds of metal together—for example, welding stainless steel to a nickel alloy or a different grade of steel.

When doing this, the different metals will expand at varying rates when exposed to heat, causing cracks. Also, welding two different metals together accelerates corrosion. You can also get similar problems if you use the wrong filler between the same material.

For a skilled welding company that will avoid these mistakes, choose Brady’s Welding Specialties in Tacoma, WA. For over 40 years, they’ve served Pierce County, offering versatile, reliable service, from multiple workshops to mobile units. Call (253) 475-4608 for additional information or visit their website to learn more about their services.