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Garbage disposal problems can be annoying and inconvenient. If you have foul smells coming from your sink, you might have a malfunctioning garbage disposal. We love to help solve these problems and offer great solutions for running your kitchen smoothly.
How to Identify a Broken Garbage Disposal?
Many of the houses in an area have garbage disposal units. These useful devices are installed inside the kitchen sink drain and use an array of spinning blades to shred up large bits of food and other waste so that these can be easily rinsed away with water. Unfortunately, if the garbage disposal stops operating, you could find that rotting food smells will overwhelm your kitchen.
Common garbage disposal problems include:
- Disposal that is leaking
- A blocked or clogged disposal
- Disposal that hums when operating
- Disposal that fails to drain
- Disposal that is very hot
- Disposal that does not work at all
- A garbage disposal that isn’t correctly breaking down food waste.
How to Identify a Clogged Garbage Disposal?
A properly operating garbage disposal could provide a simple and effortless way to eliminate kitchen waste. However, it could rapidly become an irritating and foul-smelling issue when it gets blocked. Thankfully, there are plenty of early warning signs that you could look for to help you spot the problem early enough. For instance, if you see a pool of water in the kitchen sink while the unit is in operation or if the water drains extremely slowly, there’s a significant likelihood that something is clogging your trash disposal. Food particles, oils, and other waste can accumulate in your disposal over time and eventually cause it to get blocked.
Don’t put these in the garbage disposal:
- Hard items like fruit pits, nuts, shells, and other types of debris that can harm the disposal’s blades.
- Onion and potato skins that stick to the garbage disposal and could block it.
- Eggshells that may get trapped in the garbage disposal.
- Foods such as rice and pasta that can swell when wet.
- Coffee grounds that can turn into a paste-like material, which can cause a blockage to form.
- Other fibrous items, including celery and corn husks that might wrap around the disposal.
