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Posted on: November 30th, 2024
By: Alan O'Neill
Posted in: Holiday Tips

Abacus Plumbing Expert Sam explains how to clean your garbage disposal two ways:

"Hi I'm Sam with abicus and this is what I do about once a year to clean my disposal first things first is you want to get you about a bowl of ice right here just let all that go down the disposal want to use something to help push it down definitely don't want to use your hand after we get all that ice in there what you want to do is turn on that water let it run a little bit and then go ahead and turn on that disposal as you can see we definitely got some definitely dirty in there so that's still pretty dirty and I want to take another step to go ahead and try to get this disposal a little bit cleaner uh right here I have a product has life microorganisms it'll eat up soap scums grease or any type of buildup it's a preventative maintenance it's not going to hurt your pipes like those products that they have in those big box stores your licensed plumber should definitely have one so what we're going to do is just pour about 2 oz down the drain got a little bit of blue stuff down there so what we want to do is just run a little bit of water help push that down the drain turn on the disposal for about half a second and we should be good to go it just helps get it all inside those nooks and crannies"