Almost all homes nowadays have a garbage disposal in their kitchen. Garbage disposals are helpful kitchen machines which eliminate issues with undesirable food waste as well as gets rid of the need for smelly garbage cans. Having a Garbage Disposal installed at your home is a great thing. It really is a workhorse in your kitchen but many users often take this device for granted until they clog up and stop working. With this specific article I'll be presenting you with methods that might help you resolve some difficulties with this kitchen appliance such as a clogged garbage disposal.
What Can Cause A Clogged Garbage Disposal?Your disposal will have no problem grinding most food waste, but that's not where the problems with a "clog" lies. Clogs are most often caused by how the ground food waste reacts to water or lack of water after the disposal unit has ground it up and sends it on its way into waste line. When a garbage disposer clogs, you will often find the problem in the trap, found on the waste discharge side of the disposal. The waste line could become clogged by a variety of things which for various reasons promote poor drainage, such as:
Insufficient water used to get rid of waste when grinding: egg shells, coffee grounds, potato peels, banana peels.
Putting Down Non-food Items on the drain. (example: silverware)
Fibrous Foods which wrap around a disposal blade, burn up the motor and clog the drain.
Expandable Foods like rice or pasta that may expand inside the disposal and clog the drain.
Large Bones which aren't intended to be ground in the disposal.
Grease and Fats that may liquefy and then solidify further down the water pipe which usually could clog up the drain.
Just remember these few tips and this should help lessen the chances of you having a clog drain. But just in case you still experience the problem then what do you need to do? Here are some basic tips that could help you Unclog your waste disposal. If your disposal is draining real slow or not at all, the problem is most likely in the drain trap which is the P or S shaped plumbing line right after the disposer discharge. To get rid of the clog, disconnect the drain trap and remove the trap from the discharge drain of the disposal. Check for clogs or obstructions. If a clog is not found in the trap then the clog lies in the line going into the wall or beyond the vertical pipe going into the wall. That calls for clearing the obstruction with a sink auger.
Allow a strong flow of cold water to continue running for 30 seconds after turning off the food waste disposal. This will effectively flush out any remaining food particles in the drain and not only that running cold water while operating the kitchen disposal help you harden up greasy food waste in order for the garbage disposal to easily chop up this waste.
Always remember as well to clear the sink of all the dishes and silverware before you run the disposal.
Retain a strainer container over the disposal whenever it's not being used so nothing falls into the device.
And also run the garbage disposal right after you place food in it. Don't let food waste build-up inside the kitchen waste disposal.
As long as you remember these basic guidelines, you don't need to worry about your garbage disposal clogging up, or even worse, completely stop working. Keep this in mind and you'll be saving not only money by your disposer lasting longer, but saving time as well not having to deal with clogged kitchen waste disposals.
