Thread: What are you working on?

Any thing that you think shoud be be put down a disposer shouldn't be.

If your drain backs up you have no sypmathey from me.

Everything was fine til the spoon..................
Disposers are great, IMO. Cuts down on stinky trash cans. Not everything should go in one. It takes disposal smarts!
Not everyone has them, you know.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Wife had dropped a spoon in the old 3/4 hp disposer and cracked it in 2 sides. Been running a bucket under for months catching what oozed by the cracks and emptying, rinsing weekly..
Sucker was slinging crap around everywhere as well.

Found a 1 1/4 hp on line and finally got it in. Don't know what was a bigger bitch, the cleanup or the installation.
This baby should really chew up some spoons!
Learned a long time ago to smear a big bead of Goop around every drain connection. Keeps things from vibrating loose.

Plumbing sucks!

Hey Tom, give these a go to avoid any incidents with the spoons etc.



Amazon sells them for $6.00 for two plus tax and shipping. They really keep the crap out and they fit real nice

I put a 1.25 hp unit in mine a few years ago. It only lasted about a year before it started rattling and making noise. Went back to the 3/4 horse and it has lasted 3 times as long and still going. I agree, Plumbing sucks! but it's not too difficult. Even when you got to sweat a pipe or two it's not all that hard. More of a common sense thing to me. Still, no fun!
Good luck on your disposal. I bought my big one locally and have no idea what brand it was. May you have better luck than I.

My wife loves those strainers for the sink. I hate them. Just another thing I got to rinse. But I guess it keeps wrong things out.

My disposal I removed and replumbed to a double sink. I grew up without one and at 57 can't get used to putting what I used to throw in the trash down the drain. But don't let me stop you. Grind away! Lol.

This one is American Standard. I actually got it for a bit less than the 3/4 ones at local Lowes.
Free ship from wallymart. I grew up without one too. Love the things.

Problem with the strainers is you must remove it to use the disposer. This one came with a ring of magnets to go around the drain above the disposer to supposedly attempt to catch stuff. Doubt it will work, though.

Key is to rinse stuff and put it in the dishwasher immediately. That's what I told the wife.
And yes. I grew up without a dishwasher as well!

We compost most everything, except meat. Great stuff for the garden. It’s always good to stroke so,e thing off the house repair list every now and then.

Love our garbarator as well. Makes the compost bag bearable and everything but bones, banana peels, pasta and sourdough starter pretty much will pass.

Ya, potato peels are nobueno. Every Christmas or Thanksgiving Mawinlaw would run a bunch down and we would be out snaking the line. Everyone would bitch and she kept on doing it.
She also ALWAYS burned the rolls too...

Originally Posted by sharptonn

This one is American Standard. I actually got it for a bit less than the 3/4 ones at local Lowes.
Free ship from wallymart. I grew up without one too. Love the things.

Problem with the strainers is you must remove it to use the disposer. This one came with a ring of magnets to go around the drain above the disposer to supposedly attempt to catch stuff. Doubt it will work, though.

Key is to rinse stuff and put it in the dishwasher immediately. That's what I told the wife.
And yes. I grew up without a dishwasher as well!

I also grew up without a dishwasher but love em now, I don't rinse anything, I scrape the plates to get off the scraps and then shove em in to sit until bedtime when I let it run.

I have never had a garbage disposal, maybe one day I'll get a house with one fitted but it sounds like a major job and a new sink with a big hole to do it myself.

I have one leg that won't bend enough to lay down under a sink cos I couldn't get back up, same with changing my oil. I do the stand up stuff and someone else does the oil.

Last time I fell over it took 2 guys to stand me up again, ex army, ex martial arts and now I can't even lay on the ground without help to get back up, so humiliating.