Everyone loves a perfectly running garbage disposal, but the second you start to see water building up in your sink, the panic starts to set in. Clogs are annoying and unsightly (plus also smelly), ...

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TAMPA (BLOOM) – Maintaining a functional plumbing system is crucial, not just for the convenience it provides but also for avoiding the messy and costly endeavor of unclogging pipes. The key to ...

Many of us take our garbage disposal for granted, but when it stops working, it can shut down most kitchen tasks. We depend on this contraption to help break down a variety of soft food items when ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - It's every dinner host's worst nightmare - a clogged kitchen sink. In today's Angie's List report, how to avoid those dreaded clogs by properly using and maintaining your garbage ...

Think twice before you shove those potato peels down your garbage disposal. Even with a good flush of water, you may cause a clog that will take a professional to clean out. Jeff Williams remembers ...

Trash cans are kind of gross. You keep a container of food waste and plastic wrappers in the kitchen, and it starts to smell. Garbage disposals are supposed to alleviate the smelly trash problem. They ...

It has long been known that eating the wrong foods can adversely affect our health, not to mention our life expectancy. Although many of us take great pains to make sure that we eat right to ensure a ...

You probably spend almost no time thinking about the disposal in your kitchen sink right up until the garbage disposal is not working. Just as soon as that sink drain backs up, figuring out how to fix ...

We put garbage disposals to the test in our lab, but we also spoke with disposal manufacturers and experts in plumbing and wastewater treatment to nail down a definitive list of what you can and can’t ...