We've been resting up....

[rwsmith]

We are supposed to sing in three Easter services tomorrow starting at 6 AM. So where was I tonight? Underneath the kitchen sink discovering that our garbage disposal is shot and leaking like a seive and we have house guests. Of course Lowe's is closed tomorrow, so I'll either wait or go to Home Depot to get one.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!!!

(What can you do but laugh? I'm finished swearing.)

 

[robvious]

had a run of bad luck holiday weekends a while back.. it was either me or my late mother-in-law in the hospital every holiday weekend... it was a running joke of which one of us would be in the ER.. it is that jerk Murphy and his silly law...

 

[jeffrefrig]

Coincidentally I was online yesterday looking for a new disposal. Prices all over the place, RPMs and HPs all over, too. Just one more thing to fix before we sell this shack! I swear I'm ready to just sell to one of those "as is" buyers, but I'd probably lose a boatload of money. At least it isn't leaking water.

 

[DWalt]

Replacement is a fairly simple job, the cheapest one HD has should work OK. We do not even use ours, but it is there. We just have a wire strainer in the sink drain. I don't like the idea of grinding up garbage and flushing it down he drain.

 

[Tom S.]

My back up disposal has never let me down:

 

[arjay]

Fun! A tooth that's been feeling funny finally blew up Saturday and my dentist retired last year.. I found one who can get me in Monday morning...Something about weekends and holidays inspire these incidents [emoji23]

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[rwsmith]

Along with our guests...

My back up disposal has never let me down:

We have our own disposal, but our guests have 2 full grown German Shepherds, a Rottweiler, a German Shepherd 'puppy' and a couple of cats. I think that we are covered.

 

[Golddollar]

Replacement is a fairly simple job, the cheapest one HD has should work OK. We do not even use ours, but it is there. We just have a wire strainer in the sink drain. I don't like the idea of grinding up garbage and flushing it down he drain.

When I moved here the borough code prohibited garbage disposals. When the new water treatment plant was connected the ban was lifted, but I never had one put it. I also use the strainers which I can clean in the dishwasher. To me a garbage disposal is just one more thing that can go wrong. In my previous house the original garbage disposal seized up, probably from rust. I got a bigger disposal with stainless steel works and Pop and I put it in. Since this house never had a garbage disposal before I don't intend to put one in now.

 

[Rustyt1953]

We have a Binford 3000 garbage disposal that could double as a wood chipper. With the two eating machines here we seldom have fodder for it.

 

[Model 19 6"]

Is it one Tim put together??

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I do the holiday cooking, this year my diet is restricted so i put some items on the menu such as salt free chips to go with my homemade salsa and chicken fajitas instead of beef, The rest of the family left their TVs and computers for dinner and commenced their complaints about my choices. Next year, if they leave dinner to me, I hope they enjoy steel cut oats.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Next year, if they leave dinner to me, I hope they enjoy steel cut oats.

If they do can I goetta invite?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My apartment complex and mom's complex both had ISE 333's. they were 3 times the price of the Badger 1 or 5, which I used as replacements! When we sold both complexes the new owners removed the disposals from all empty apartments and rerouted the drains. I was replacing 10 or more a year on 140 units. That is a lot of cash flow!

The newer models with the mounting neck in plastic last much better than the cast "pot metal" models! But too much is still too much.

BTW< Most of New York City bans disposals because it strains their septic sewer system too much.

Ivan

 

[Tom S.]

My apartment complex and mom's complex both had ISE 333's. they were 3 times the price of the Badger 1 or 5, which I used as replacements! When we sold both complexes the new owners removed the disposals from all empty apartments and rerouted the drains. I was replacing 10 or more a year on 140 units. That is a lot of cash flow!

The newer models with the mounting neck in plastic last much better than the cast "pot metal" models! But too much is still too much.

BTW< Most of New York City bans disposals because it strains their septic sewer system too much.

Ivan

NY City has a septic system? I thought they were the septic system!?

 

[DWalt]

I believe that our current house (been here since 1990) is the only one we've had that was equipped with a disposal. At least I do not remember any others. I suppose we didn't mind not having one, don't use the one we have now. The screen wire strainer does the job.

 

[TX-Dennis]

We had an old Insinkerator. The metal housing rusted out, and it started leaking. I bought a newer model from the same manufacturer so as to reuse the existing mount rather than having to change it out. That stinking mount is the most difficult part of changing one out. It's easy peasey to install a new one into the existing mounting bracket. The new one's housing is plastic. Maybe it will last longer. Maybe not.

 

[twodog max]

The biggest problem with these things is that some think you can grind up and be done with anything. At a family gathering at my brothers his wife decided to put a lot of celery cutoffs in theirs. So my brother and I had a brief interlude of removing and cleaning out the plumbing of quantities of half ground celery stalks. What an adventure

 

[steelslaver]

Why spend money to have my septic tank pumped sooner when my chickens will take care of it for free.