Dos and don’ts when maintaining your garbage disposal

When maintaining your garbage disposal unit, there are issues you may have to adhere to. We now belabor them in our peek into how to repair garbage disposal:

Dos:

  • Take time to learn and familiarize yourself with the garbage disposal unit you have. This is important as it determines the steps you might take to make any remedies to the item in the course of a breakdown.
  • Clean and maintain your garbage disposal after every use. Use hot water and some vinegar to do this. The aim is to ensure a smoother passage of the wastewater and the debris without clogging the same.
  • Check the power unit to ascertain that it indeed furnishes the power output as seamlessly as it should. Make use of a voltage tester to do this job.
  • Run cold water when the system is in use. The purpose of the cold water is to clear out every debris and ensure the unobstructed flow of the wastewater to the home’s municipal drainage.
  • Make use of a drain strainer to prevent the issue of the blockage of the drains. Should the items get stuck in the drains for too long, grind some lemon and pour the same atop to make it feel better.

Don’ts:

  • Deposit ground coffee, metal, rubber, glass, bones, eggshells, or fibrous foods in the garbage disposal tend to block the same to prevent the smooth passage of the wastewater.
  • Overfill the disposal unit as this may overwhelm the system even to destroy the same completely.
  • Use extremely harsh chemicals to dissolve and neutralize the debris in the drains. They might similarly corrode the garbage disposal unit’s metallic parts and components and render the same irreversibly damaged.