Garbage Disposal Cleaner - Avoid Hucksters - LIVE Stream 02-23-2022 Ask the Builder

Good afternoon. I'm Tim Carter. We are streaming live and almost like a summer day here in New Hampshire

This is how I went to the, this is how I went to the grocery store about three, four hours ago in a T-shirt, February 23rd

It could just as easily be 20 degrees outside, 55 when I went

and still sitting outside, but we got a bunch of snow coming

It's still winter. It's going to be winter here for another month, minimum. Welcome to the live stream

There's quite a few things to talk about today. And the first thing we're going to talk about is a garbage disposal cleaner

And what kind of what inspired this is I saw, I was scanning the news

and there was this headline about this person who's supposedly an expert cleaner

And so I went to the page And immediately I knew this was a huckster They really don know what they talking about

And they must have been absent that week or that day in high school chemistry class

when they did the vinegar baking soda experiment. So I'm going to dispel all this myths

and I'm going to tell you the right way to get your garbage disposal clean

If you have any questions about anything else with your home, just go ahead and put it in the chat

I'll answer any questions. It doesn't have to be about garbage disposals. It can be about anything

And all right, let's get started on it because I think it's really kind of a fun topic

The first thing I want to talk about is let's just talk a little bit about garbage disposals, what they do, and how they can really harm your plumbing system

And a lot of people, I mean, the drain cleaning companies love garbage disposals

I mean, they're like, they love them. I mean, the drain cleaning companies, they wish that everybody would have a garbage disposal

And here's the problem. And this is also why they get dirty Most people have never been trained on how to use garbage disposal And it really unfortunate

And you would think some of it would be common sense, but I don't think it is

And especially because it's this big black hole and you can't see inside of it

So you just don't think much about it. Here's what you need to do to properly, you know, use a garbage disposal

This is what you're supposed to do, but most people don't do it. Go ahead and put the things in the garbage disposal that you're going to grind up

And hopefully it's just going to be one load. And before you turn it on, you know, you put the stopper in

The garbage disposal's come with their own stopper. And I know this sounds crazy, but I want you to fill the sink up with water

All right. So fill your entire sink to the top of water. May it take a few minutes

All right. It's going to be worth it. Trust me. And then once the sink is filled with water, go ahead and pull the stopper out

Water is going to rush into the garbage disposal. Go ahead and turn the garbage disposal on

All right. And it should grind up the food very quickly with that water present It makes a really fine slurry And I would probably stop the garbage disposal about halfway down when the sink is about

halfway finished and then put the stopper back in. And then go ahead, if you have a double bowl sink, turn the faucet over to the other side

which where that sink is not filled. and then turn the water on and then have water running down into the pipes and then go ahead and turn the garbage disposal on for just a few more seconds to kind of tell if it has ground everything up

You can always tell that just because of the hum, the way it sounds, the pitch of the hum

Then what you do, this is the critical part. This is where most everybody makes a mistake

What you have to do when you, typically when people use a garbage disposal, here's where they make a mistake

They put the food in. They don't fill the sink up. They just turn the water on

They flip the switch and they heard it goes. All right. So that higher pitched hum, they think, okay, everything's ground up

And they turn the disposal off and they turn the water off. Now you've got this sludge that's still