Broken Garbage Disposal? Easy Fix!
Quick Summary
This video teaches you how to quickly unjam, reset, and clean your kitchen waste disposer. You will learn how to use a special tool to crank a fitting on the bottom of the disposal until the jammed blades are free. If the motor shuts down after a jam, the video shows you where to find and push the reset button. Finally, you will learn to clean the blades with ice cubes and lemon slices. Knowing these steps is crucial because the disposal handles almost all your food scraps, and learning this easy fix means you won't have to call a plumber every time something too hard gets stuck.
What you'll need and what to do
To try what's taught in the video, here's what you'll need and the exact steps to follow.
What You Will Need
• Little tool (to fit the fitting on the bottom of the disposer)
• Ice cubes
• Lemon slices
• Water
Action Steps
1. Insert the tool into the fitting on the bottom of the disposer.
2. Crank the tool until the disposer is unjammed.
3. If the motor shut down after being jammed, push the reset button.
4. Get the water flowing.
5. Put ice cubes into the opening to clean the blades.
6. Follow the ice cubes with some lemon slices to clean the blades.
Word for word video transcript
Hey everyone Brandon Nelson and in one minute I'm going to show you how to unjam reset and clean your kitchen waste disposer so this little monster is one of the hardest working machines in the home it's connected to the drain and to the kitchen sink so all your food scraps from the day go into this little opening it can handle coffee grounds eggshells apple peels steel tor Tia chips old dog food salad macaroni and cheese like I said almost everything get the water flowing get on that grinder and it's just eating it all up and here how it's humming nice and clean like that it's running perfectly but as we all know sometimes something too hard gets in there and it gets jammed up but don't call the plumber just yet you can usually unjam it with this little tool there's a fitting on the bottom of the disposer that this tool fits right into just put that tool in and crank it until it's unjammed now if it's jammed and you try to run that motor too long it might shut down completely that's okay just come in here and push this reset button after days of stinky food scraps we're going to make those blades in there just Sparkle with some nice ice cubes followed by some lemon slices this has been Brandon Nelson for 1 minute I'll see you next time.
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