Guaranteed Plumbing Danville, Ca - What not to put down your garbage disposal

The worst things, bar none, to put in a garbage disposal? Potato peels and cooked rice. Both, but especially potato peels turn into glue in your drain, as the starch gets ground up, sitting in your pipes it hardens or will just cause a blockage if not enough water pushes it all the way to the water treatment plant.

The Thanksgiving dinner or Christma dinner potato preparation could cause you a large plumber's bill. Beware!!!!!!!!!!

A general rule of thumb?

Put your bones, garbage, debris in the garbage pail, and save the disposal in the sink for the crud that gets washed off the plates doing dishes. Scrape those plates into the trash can.

The old adage of “less is more” definitely applies to the garbage disposal. Only small amounts of table scraps should go into the disposal. If you find that something from the above list has jammed your disposal it’s a relatively easy process to unjam it.

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