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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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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 $70 last year, a couple years ago? Has worked just fine. I looked at some of the much larger badgers and have picked one of those for our new home build, but for this house I plopped this in and it has been 100% great:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/American-Standard-Elite-ASE-50-Economy-Garbage-Disposal-1-2-HP/1605483129
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Yup. that's what I have, its been great works well, the floppy drain cover is a little tight vs the badger but its no real issue.. glad to see its price is still good- its really a great product for its price compared to any other "entry" model.
That thing is 1/2 HP - stainless steel inside grinding area, external jam button, easy mount, plug or hardwire (i.e. cut and strip) etc. for 70$ -- 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.
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So when we bought the place it had a disposal, no idea if it worked because I unhooked it. When we renovated the kitchen I used my usual plumber guy and he was insistent I get a new one. I told him flat out NO and he wanted me to at least get an 'air gap' thing, which I did. He said in case the dishwasher backed up. Worst mistake I made. Got a real nice Samsung dishwasher that most times you cannot tell is running , until it drains the water. Then it sounds like a freaking train coming through the house from the noise coming out of that 'air gap'.
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UV? Sounds like overly complicated witchcraft!
Around Chez Haus, we just run an extra 10-15 seconds of water with it running after dumping stuff down. Occasionally squirt some dish soap into it when it's running. Then once every other week when we refresh our supply of clementines any left over and aging ones get fed through it for a citrus cleaning.
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OK. Time for Storytime with Haus.... A Song of Shrubs and Tilling!
So, long ago in my early homeowner days (around 16-17 years ago). I planted Azaleas in the front garden bed in front of my house. The previous owners had some there, but they had suffered in the time the house had been vacant on the market, so I figured I'd just refresh that because I do like the idea of flowering shrubs. Fast forward a decade and a half and they're straggly, leggy, and surviving enough to put on occasional blooms but kinda looking like crap due to it being the north side of a north facing house and them essentially get very little direct sunlight, it's mostly shade and what one would call "partial shade". A month ago I was fed up and decided "that's does it, time to rectify and get something more proper in here". Looking at the reality of the location I realized my probable best solution was boring traditional boxwoods which could grow well in this situation (my neighbor on either side have boxwood hedges which look just fine).
So first step : Clearing
I made a decision to try to "salvage" what I could of the ones which were tough enough to survive and try to put them in the back yard where they'll get a ton of sun and see if they could thrive. So first step was to transplant the best 5 of the shrubs... So I go and mention this to the shrubs, that they're going to get a wonderful new life, in a land with a lot more sun, and it's just time to move them to their new home. Their response?
The way they communicated that? (as seen in FSR)
So I then shifted into "This wasn't a suggestion" mode and bring out "the negotiator" (seen on the right in this pic)
6 foot of turgid steel with a mean flared wedge on one end... and yes... That is, in fact, also what she said.
A full day of fighting to get them out, but got them out... In the middle of the bed was also a 3 year old (5ft tall) opportunistic magnolia tree which I had to remove. It was actually easier than the shrubs. And I got a kick ass stick out of it :
Then I hit the whole area with a tiller. In this case 40v Ryobi tiller attachment on their 40v weed eater base. The number of 1/4-3/4" roots I was fighting was moderately staggering. Also the stone border I had places around the bed years ago had settled and tilted into a lean, so I pulled that to re-level the stones.
Then came planting. Another time I am, in hindsight, very glad that I indulged my worst DIY habit. That being that I am not above buying an expensive new toy when I have a project even knowing I may only use that toy a handful of times ever.... In this case expensive toy was a augur that also used the 40v Ryobi batteries which was on clearance with an 8" augur bit. I go into this thinking "This bad boy is going to make easy peasy work of boring down 18 holes real quick like..." The lingering spirits of the displaced Azaleas whispered in the wind....
2-3" below the surface I hit an absolute web of those damn roots again. And these are in the 3/4-1.5" diameter range (Probably also including roots from the large 40ft Magnolia in the front yard near it). So Augur get 50% of the job done, and the negotiator has to come in for the other half. At this point we're functionally three days in and my 56 year old back and shoulders are telling me :
But I'm more stubborn (and have enough access to anti-inflammatory drugs and nice pain killers) to pay any attention to that bullshit whining.... Fast forward another day and a half and F-ing done....
I did my best to p[lant the shrubs nice and tight (18" spacing) with the goal of them being a contiguous hedge in a couple years. Also so they would be easier to keep under control as a wise man once told me... "If you keep your bush well trimmed it will make your deck look bigger".
Epilogue : This is what the 5 best of the scraggly ass Azaleas once they accepted their fate....
Thank you for coming to myTED SHRUB talk
So, long ago in my early homeowner days (around 16-17 years ago). I planted Azaleas in the front garden bed in front of my house. The previous owners had some there, but they had suffered in the time the house had been vacant on the market, so I figured I'd just refresh that because I do like the idea of flowering shrubs. Fast forward a decade and a half and they're straggly, leggy, and surviving enough to put on occasional blooms but kinda looking like crap due to it being the north side of a north facing house and them essentially get very little direct sunlight, it's mostly shade and what one would call "partial shade". A month ago I was fed up and decided "that's does it, time to rectify and get something more proper in here". Looking at the reality of the location I realized my probable best solution was boring traditional boxwoods which could grow well in this situation (my neighbor on either side have boxwood hedges which look just fine).
So first step : Clearing
I made a decision to try to "salvage" what I could of the ones which were tough enough to survive and try to put them in the back yard where they'll get a ton of sun and see if they could thrive. So first step was to transplant the best 5 of the shrubs... So I go and mention this to the shrubs, that they're going to get a wonderful new life, in a land with a lot more sun, and it's just time to move them to their new home. Their response?
The way they communicated that? (as seen in FSR)
So I then shifted into "This wasn't a suggestion" mode and bring out "the negotiator" (seen on the right in this pic)
6 foot of turgid steel with a mean flared wedge on one end... and yes... That is, in fact, also what she said.
A full day of fighting to get them out, but got them out... In the middle of the bed was also a 3 year old (5ft tall) opportunistic magnolia tree which I had to remove. It was actually easier than the shrubs. And I got a kick ass stick out of it :
Then I hit the whole area with a tiller. In this case 40v Ryobi tiller attachment on their 40v weed eater base. The number of 1/4-3/4" roots I was fighting was moderately staggering. Also the stone border I had places around the bed years ago had settled and tilted into a lean, so I pulled that to re-level the stones.
Then came planting. Another time I am, in hindsight, very glad that I indulged my worst DIY habit. That being that I am not above buying an expensive new toy when I have a project even knowing I may only use that toy a handful of times ever.... In this case expensive toy was a augur that also used the 40v Ryobi batteries which was on clearance with an 8" augur bit. I go into this thinking "This bad boy is going to make easy peasy work of boring down 18 holes real quick like..." The lingering spirits of the displaced Azaleas whispered in the wind....
2-3" below the surface I hit an absolute web of those damn roots again. And these are in the 3/4-1.5" diameter range (Probably also including roots from the large 40ft Magnolia in the front yard near it). So Augur get 50% of the job done, and the negotiator has to come in for the other half. At this point we're functionally three days in and my 56 year old back and shoulders are telling me :
But I'm more stubborn (and have enough access to anti-inflammatory drugs and nice pain killers) to pay any attention to that bullshit whining.... Fast forward another day and a half and F-ing done....
I did my best to p[lant the shrubs nice and tight (18" spacing) with the goal of them being a contiguous hedge in a couple years. Also so they would be easier to keep under control as a wise man once told me... "If you keep your bush well trimmed it will make your deck look bigger".
Epilogue : This is what the 5 best of the scraggly ass Azaleas once they accepted their fate....
Thank you for coming to my
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