Don’t Dis Your Disposal
You rely on your garbage disposal to break down food waste for easy flushing through your plumbing system. It uses fast-rotating steel impellers or spinning plates to grind food scraps into tiny pieces, so they don’t clog pipes or decompose in your sink drain.
Garbage disposals work best with soft, wet food waste like vegetable trimmings, fruit pieces, and cooked leftovers. When frequent use or heavy duty dull your disposal’s cutters or overwork its motor breakdowns are likely to follow, causing a range of problems such as bent and broken blades, motor burnout, jammed components, and sticky clogs.
You can prevent these issues and keep your disposal running at full speed, always run cold water while using the disposal. Cut large items like melon rinds into smaller pieces, avoid hard or fibrous materials such as carrot peels. Periodically grind ice cubes to clean and sharpen the blades and citrus peels to add a fresh scent.
Understanding Your Disposal’s Importance
Marion County’s humid summers and year-round hard water pummel residential plumbing infrastructure, and your garbage disposal is not immune. It is the first line of defense against the buildup of food scraps, grease, and other organic waste that would clog your drains and strain your entire plumbing network. It takes care of business day after day to keep your kitchen clean and sweet-smelling — until the burden becomes too much.
When your disposal breaks down, organic materials accumulate in the drain, as they rot, they emit unpleasant odors and prevent water from draining. A malfunctioning disposal could even back up, with water overflowing the sink and seeping into floors, walls, and countertops, damaging drywall and wood, and allowing toxic mold and mildew to flourish.
Your garbage disposal will conk out eventually. When it does, Service Minds Benjamin Franklin Plumbing’s experts are here to nurse your kitchen back to health.
Know When Your Disposal is Indisposed
When your disposal operates at less-than-peak performance, it cannot efficiently grind up food waste or transform it into small particles that your pipes can easily flush away. This creates an unsanitary kitchen and increases the organic material that clutters Ocala’s landfills.
Here’s what happens when your disposal is in distress:
- Unpleasant odors: When food particles get trapped in the disposal and cannot be ground and flushed away, they decompose in place, creating foul smells. This indicates a clog or a problem with the disposal’s grinding mechanism.
- Slow drainage: Standing or slow-moving water in your sink is almost always the result of a clog, either within the disposal or in the pipe leading out of it.
- Strange noises: A satisfying whir accompanies healthy garbage disposal operation. Loud banging, screeching, or vibration, on the other hand, tell you that the blades may be jammed, or other internal components are broken.
- Frequent resets: If you have to constantly reset your garbage disposal, your motor may be struggling. The reset button is a safety mechanism to prevent motor burnout.
Our Disposal Proposal
Service Minds Benjamin Franklin Plumbing is committed to superior quality work and the ultimate in customer service from first contact to final quality check. Call us to set up your appointment at a time that’s convenient for you, and one of our punctual plumbers will arrive as promised — or we’ll give you get $5 for every minute we’re late, up to $300. If there’s any delay, it’s you we pay.
One of our highly trained plumbers will arrive with the latest insights on the latest garbage disposal technologies and features. They will have all the tools they need to repair your system in one visit. The Service Minds Benjamin Franklin plumber will give you the straight dope on your disposal’s problem and free advice on what to do about it. You’ll get a detailed written quote, outlining the necessary repairs and the associated costs.