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I used to be able to figure out if the turntable was stuck or if it was some other problem.
All kitchen sinks today have the same diameter drain, which is 3 1/2 inches and is larger than a bathroom drain which measures in at 1 1/4 inches. It is the same size as a typical standard shower drain, however. When installing a new drain into the sink, you have no need to shop for certain diameter drains. All drains manufactured will adhere to this standard size. The drain size is not random; it is sized to meet certain needs. The drain line is also sized for functional reasons.
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I am one of those folks. If it’s a food item it goes down the disposal. No clogs so far with a Kenmore 1HP unit. Less weight to take to the curb and no smell either.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Then why do you have one?
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Why are you against using it? I don’t know where you shop but I’ve never seen a disposal that costs 500 bucks but if I did I’d still buy it because I like them that much.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
I don’t know why you don’t “like it”because a disposal is designed to chop up a good amount of food before letting it go down the pipe.
The only time I asked Mrs. j to leave the dishes unrinsed before putting them in the dishwasher was to see if the salesman was on the up and up about the dishes not needing to be scraped. It worked as advertised but Mrs. j said that was the last time she was going to do that. I feel there is a big difference between food going into the dishwasher and food going down the disposal.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
I’m with Stick on this one. I don’t put a ton of stuff down the disposal either. The trash can is footsteps away from the sink so the majority of food scraps go there. Small stuff is ok and once in awhile I’ll grind some citrus peels to avoid any odors.
My thoughts are why tempt fate. I have no idea if there is that one pipe hidden in the ceiling that doesn’t have quite enough pitch and will eventually lead to a clog.
Dishwasher? Well yeah most things go in without much left on the dishes… just streaks from sauce or tiny crumbs stuck to the dish.
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Garbage disposals reduce fly and insect infestation. I think there was a big practical demonstration of this in Jasper, Indiana in the '50s or '60s.
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In the house? Or the landfill?
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
New garbage disposal with the new kitchen. The plumber made a point of demonstrating it to me, because: "I don't want you to call tomorrow and tell me it's broken".
It is unbelievably quiet. Also, it grinds the reverse direction every time you turn it on. Which helps stop jams.
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The reason for the city enacting its ban years ago was that they wanted to avoid having to filter out and dispose of the sludge created by them in their then-new sewage treatment plant.
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I’m such a fan of disposals I’d tempt fate before I’d not use it. Having a clogged drain isn’t the end of the world, they’re usually easily cleaned out. With a good sized disposal, 1/2 HP minimum, you should not have any problems with ground up food going down a drain pipe slope that isn’t quite up to code. But, there’s only one way to find out.
When we were in our first house a good friend of my youngest brother was in the plumbing biz and he gave my brother a very good price on a 1/3 HP disposal. One time when we were at his house my SIL raved about how much she liked it. So, of course Mrs. j thought we should get one. My brother called his friend and he gave us the same price. Everything was fine until Mrs. j put potato peels down it, then the pipe clogged. After clearing the clog, I told her not to put too many peels down the drain at one time and to make sure she ran a lot of water. That worked pretty well until it didn’t. So potato peels were no-no in our house. After a few months of complaining from her I broke down and got a 1/2 HP job from Sears. No more problems after that.
Fast forward to when we were about to buy our second house in 1989. I saw the house had a 1/3 HP reversal Kitchen Aid disposal that I knew had to be installed after the house was built because you had to open the sink front cabinet to turn on the switch under the sink. No big deal because I could mount a wall switch after we moved in but I asked the woman how she liked the disposal and she quickly and I mean almost instantaneously said, “fine, just don’t try to chop up potato peels”.
This is a car site so you guys have to know the value of HP.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
I was ready to say that’s a bunch of garbage but you proved it ain’t.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Yeah, nonsense. I’m sure the sewage treatment plant had more to do with cleaning things up.
And what about the long list of things you can’t put down the disposal? The small amount going down instead of in the trash would not make a noticeable change in the volume of trash out of our house!
https://www.bhg.com/things-to-never-put-down-garbage-disposal-7187285#:~:text=While things like vegetables, fruit,how to properly use one.
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If you really want to be eco friendly, compost the stuff instead.
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We compost most stuff (it’s free to do so where I live and we can get as big a can as we need). The rest goes down the disposal.
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Yeah, nonsense. I’m sure the sewage treatment plant had more to do with cleaning things up.
And what about the long list of things you can’t put down the disposal? The small amount going down instead of in the trash would not make a noticeable change in the volume of trash out of our house!
https://www.bhg.com/things-to-never-put-down-garbage-disposal-7187285#:~:text=While things like vegetables, fruit,how to properly use one.
————————————————Man, that is one scary post. I might have to go cower in a closet every time I’m about to turn on my disposal.
Now for the truth. Every DON’T in that article I do (2 exceptions, see below). In fact they tell you not to put banana peels in your disposal but I do that too. I guess if you have a pee wee powered disposal maybe it’s best not to use it and think of all the water you’ll save while doing that.
The 2 exceptions are fat and paint. If folks have to be told not to throw those items down a disposal they need more help than a plumber can give them. Those items shouldn’t be thrown down any drain, disposal or no disposal.
Once again the internet doesn’t get everything right.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
I’ve always had septic tanks. And never have had a garbage disposal. We use the screen drain strainer things and just dump the crumbs into the compost. The strainers get thrown into the dishwasher when needed and seem to work fine.
Maybe if I was on public sewers I would consider a grinder.
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2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
I’ll watch it and I’ll watch the rerun too.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
Touching twist on a “baby on board” bumper sticker
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riddensriddance and so long. Will not miss them. Glad I lived to see the day.Good riddance??
Your life’s work is now complete.
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Who first said good riddance?
Shakespeare
Shakespeare seems to have been the first to combine "good" with "riddance" in his 1606 play Troilus and Cressida in which Patroclus responds to some verbal abuse from Thersites with a pithy, "A good riddance."
They aren’t liquidating. Closing stores that are losing money (many in Urban areas), and screwing over all the vendors and landlords. They secured over 3B in bankruptcy financing to keep going through the process.
I think they will emerge with much less debt and live to fight another day.
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Your life’s work is now complete.
There are still a few companies on the ....."Expletive Brown LIST."
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I was worried our local RiteAid would get cut because the store has such a low customer count, in my opinion.
But I understand revenge is best served cold. @andres3
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Looking at it quickly I realized it looked like both front wheels were turned slightly to the right causing them both to give out of spec readings for the 4-wheel tracking, but the toe-in/toe-out was right on spec between the two. It had only been about a year since the car was aligned by Chev dealer.
I said, "No."
Then last visit they came out with my engine air filter. It looked dirty on the foam surface and had a few pieces of dry grass. I said, "No" to replacing the air filter. It was less than 2 years, and when I checked it myself there was no grass bits in the bottom of the air plenum. Hmmmm. wonder if the grass was added to make it look dirtier. The paper matrix under the foam prefilter looked my fine to my eye.
So I understand the Timex effect.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
This reminds me of the time I took my car in for minor warranty work. Sure enough the SA said I needed an air filter (I had just changed it 2 weeks earlier) so I knew it was fine. Just to have some fun I said to the SA, “I’m positive I don’t need a filter but let’s do this. If it needs a filter I’ll eat it but if it’s clean, you eat it and install a new one, OK”? His response was, “maybe the mechanic confused your car with someone else’s”. They’re always quick on their feet but I wasn’t dropping it, not yet anyway. So I asked, “how many cars do your mechanics work on at one time. If more than one that explains why there are too many mistakes made here” (I had a run in once before with the previous SA about shoddy warranty work) and I wasn’t about to accept double talk. Finally, he said, “never mind, we’re not going to install a filter on your car”. Like he was doing me a favor.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
that store left because he didn't like having the pressure for unecessary sales.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
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we have to decide on how to do our shower room (yes, it is a room, not a shower, I think it is 6x5). It is fully tiled walls and ceiling, but standard is a white shower pan. We can pay extra ($850) to have the floor tiled also (plus I guess an overage on the tile allowance!).
question is, what would you do for effect and bang for the buck? I am considering not tiling the floor because I really hate grout and tile in the shower to start with. Especially on the floor since the water sits there. we did add the tiling into the initial contract but could always swap that out since they are far from that stage.
one thing I am not quite sure of though (question for the builder) is how he does a pan in a stick built room like that (I assume he must frame it to fit, unless they custom make pans for that application).
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