{"id":1730,"date":"2021-10-25T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:39:02","slug":"tips-keeping-garbage-disposal-healthy-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/tips-keeping-garbage-disposal-healthy-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Keeping the Garbage Disposal Healthy This Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/garbage-disposal-in-sink-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/garbage-disposal-in-sink-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/garbage-disposal-in-sink-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/garbage-disposal-in-sink.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Halloween is the signal for the big end-of-the-year holiday flood to start, with major holidays arriving at the end of both November and December, all of which involve feasting and guests. If you are entertaining in your home this year, you can expect your kitchen to handle an enormous workload, probably more than it experiences at any other time of the year. Making sure all your kitchen plumbing is in good shape to handle the pressure can help make the holiday season far more enjoyable for your and your guests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s one part of your kitchen plumbing that needs specific attention at this time of year because it\u2019s most vulnerable to failures: the garbage disposal. If you have an old and often faulty garbage disposal, we strongly recommend you get a new <\/span><a href=\"\/service-areas\/williston-vt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garbage disposal in Williston, VT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That\u2019s a job we can do for you. If your garbage disposal is still in good shape, we have some important tips to help you keep it that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to Prevent Garbage Disposal Trouble This Season<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People often have misunderstandings about how garbage disposals work and what they can handle. Here are precautions that will stop damage to the garbage disposal during a feasting season:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Never put garbage in the garbage disposal: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As plumbers, we wish garbage disposals had a different name because actual non-organic garbage should never go down them. Please don\u2019t treat the disposal as a trashcan and send down items like paper, plastic, any parts of food containers, cigarette butts, etc. The disposal isn\u2019t designed to handle these items.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Do not place hard food waste down the disposal:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a basic rule that can tell you what type of food waste should go in the trash rather than disposal: if your teeth can\u2019t chew it, the disposal can\u2019t grind it. This includes fruit pits, meat bones, and unpopped popcorn kernels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t put fibrous vegetables down the disposal:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Onions, asparagus, celery, and any other \u201cstringy\u201d vegetable can become entwined in the mechanisms of the garbage disposal and cause its motors to burn out.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t put pasta, rice, and coffee grounds in the disposal:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These all may seem harmless, but they pose different problems for a disposal. Rice and pasta both absorb water and can jam up the disposal, while coffee grounds can easily get stuck in the mechanical parts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Avoid pouring fats, oils, and grease down the disposal:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This applies to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">any<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> drain in the kitchen. Fats, oils, and grease (FOG) are liquid when hot and therefore may seem harmless. But when they cool, they congeal, and few things will gunk up a disposal or drain faster.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t use ice cubes to \u201csharpen the blades\u201d of the disposal:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You may have heard this advice, but it\u2019s wrong. Disposals don\u2019t have blades, they have blunt impellers that hurl waste into a grind ring. Putting something as hard as ice cubes down the disposal can cause damage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following this advice, you should be able to avoid an emergency repair call for your kitchen plumbing during the season. But we\u2019re here to help whenever you do have a plumbing emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Red Rock Mechanical, LLC serves Northwest Vermont &amp; Northeast New York. <\/b><a href=\"\/contact\/schedule-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Schedule any kitchen plumbing work you need with our team.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s one part of your kitchen plumbing that needs specific attention at this time of year, because it\u2019s most vulnerable to failures: the garbage disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[124,141,104],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}