Garbage Disposal Repair

If you want to prevent costly garbage disposal repair, avoid putting the following items in your garbage disposal:

• Coffee grounds: Coffee grounds form a thick and dense paste that can cause clogs.
• Eggshells: The thin coating found inside of an eggshell can wrap around the blades of the disposal and create a sticky blockage inside your plumbing.
• Onion skin: Similar to an eggshell, onion skin can easily get through the blades and end up wedged in the drain and causing a blockage.
• Potato peels: Similar to onion skins, potato peels can be thin enough to slip through the blades uncut and lead to a clog.
• Grease: As fats and grease cool down, they solidify. If your garbage disposal isn’t properly flushed out, it will push the fats further down the line until it sits on the bottom of the disposal unit, creating slow drainage and eventually creating clog issues.
• Hard food items: This includes bones, pits, nuts, and any other hard food scraps. These types of foods can cause the blades to jam or cause significant damage to them.
• Dry, expandable food: These are foods that expand in water, such as pasta, rice, oats, and more. Once put down the drain, these foods will continue to expand and eventually lead to a clog.