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I clean the bacjside of the rubber thing in the sink, then squirt a bunch of dish soap in it and run water as it is running. Keeps them clean.
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Siliconemelons
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Yeah I am thinking this is a feature that is not really useful but a real gimmick - I use mine for a lot of stuff, but I use it properly, always with water running- letting it go after its "done" putting dish-soap in it and letting it get all super bubble - and orange/lemon peel every now and then is nice.
The disposal I first had was a badger from the first owner, who knows how old the thing was and I had it a good 5/6 years and it didn't stink... no little purple light is going to keep something truly rotten from smelling in there..
The insinkerators seem to be the good standard still for best of class, they have stainless bottom ones now... the fully stainless industrial ones are 1500$+ so...yeah not them.
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Based on this thread we picked up this one for $70 last year, a couple years ago? Has worked just fine. I looked at some of the much larger badgers and have picked one of those for our new home build, but for this house I plopped this in and it has been 100% great:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/American-Standard-Elite-ASE-50-Economy-Garbage-Disposal-1-2-HP/1605483129
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Siliconemelons
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Yup. that's what I have, its been great works well, the floppy drain cover is a little tight vs the badger but its no real issue.. glad to see its price is still good- its really a great product for its price compared to any other "entry" model.
That thing is 1/2 HP - stainless steel inside grinding area, external jam button, easy mount, plug or hardwire (i.e. cut and strip) etc. for 70$ -- equivalent was $200ish at HD/Lowes
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Yeah, the drain cover is definitely tight, I can remember after putting it in the water drained real slow at first.
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finally got a huge stump removed, whats the best way to go about remediation?, dude says to leave it until a few big rains for it to settle, while i don't mind that, i also don't like this big hole. should i use some wood chips as filler or just cart it all away?
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Never been able to wrap my head around putting garbage in my plumbing on purpose. I had my Disposal removed completely. Don't use them, always had a smell not worth the cost , IMO.
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There was a post yesterday in one of the Home Build groups where someone was asking about a sink, this guy responded "DO NOT BUY THIS SINK! FOOD GETS STUCK IN CORNERS AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CLEAN!"
I really wanted to reply, "Gosh, thanks. Luckily in our house we have a garbage right next to the sink that we can put food in without dumping it in the sink. Sorry for your kitchen layout."
Some people (my wife) take the "garbage" part of "garbage disposal" seriously and think you can just off load entire plates of food into the sink. Drives me up the wall.