Tips On Protecting Your Garbage Disposal From Thanksgiving Disasters

Did you know the day after Thanksgiving is considered the busiest day of the year for plumbers? That’s right, it’s as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey and pumpkin pie. According to the Plumbing, Heating, Cooling Contractors Association, each year a record number of plumbers receive calls from people who’ve clogged their drains on Turkey Day. If you think about it, it certainly makes sense. Once we are done stuffing our guts, we often stuff our garbage disposals with Thanksgiving scraps. In most cases–overstuff–our garbage disposals and overload the system, which in turn gives plumbers a lot of drains … Continue reading

The Garbage Disposal In Your Home: What Else Can It Do?

Disposing of garbage has been a problem for mankind even before the star of the Sopranos television series became an executive in the area of “waste management.” It became an issue around 1000 BC as people first began to establish permanent settlements. In 400 BC the first municipal dump was established in ancient Athens. Here, in all probability, thoughts of greatness mingled and rested on the smelly laurels of orange and lemon rinds, pomegranates, onions and grapes (sour and otherwise). In Medieval Europe as well as Colonial America, pigs roamed through city streets devouring what was left of the blue … Continue reading