How to Tell if Garbage Disposal is Clogged

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Hello, my name is Michael Raines. And we're on Expert Village. Here's your typical set-up. Here is your disposal unit. Now, this one happens to be a one-third horsepower. They come in one-half horsepower, three-quarter horsepower, and for some of the commercial, like restaurant applications, they're going to be a one horsepower motor. Now they're electric. They're powered down here. They're connected to the sink with a connector we're going to show you later. And basically all it does is spin around and grind up food. We'll show you that when we get the disposal off. We'll show you the teeth inside and how it actually works. You've got to understand there's a whole lot more going on in here, like the drain, the water feed, and this air breather for the dishwasher. Now this is also a breather for the disposal and it also feeds from the dishwasher to shoot hot water into the disposal. Which is a good thing because it cleans out your disposal with the hot dishwater. And this is the line from the dishwasher. So you never really want to disconnect these two and leave them unconnected. Because the next time you throw on your dishwasher, you're going to have a big mess under here. So, obviously I found a little problem here. This hose should not be loose. This one's kind of tight, this one's loose, we need to tighten that up. So, that's one little problem. But that's not our problem. Our problem is that the disposal doesn't work. Okay, before we go taking out the disposal, we're going to make sure that there's nothing jammed inside the disposal. Sometimes there's keys, change. I mean, a penny is the most common, common thing that blocks up a disposal. It jams it up very nicely. So we're going to go look around, see if there's anything inside the disposal that's jamming it up. If there's nothing jamming the disposal, the electrical isn't working, then we just have to pull the disposal out. So let's have a look down inside the business end of a disposal unit.

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