04/02/2026
Top 3 Plumbing Tips to Keep Your Holidays Clog-Free
Are you hosting an Easter meal with family and friends?
Follow these simple plumbing tips so you can enjoy your Easter holiday without any plumbing surprises:
1) Never pour grease, oil or fat down the drain. The grease will harden and clog up your pipes. Instead, you should wait till the griddle or frying pans cools down and then clean it off with paper towels before cleaning it.
2) Don’t throw stringy vegetables or vegetable peels into the garbage disposal. Stringy vegetables (like celery) and vegetable peels from potatoes and carrots for your holiday meals can easily get wrapped around your garbage disposal blades. This makes it hard for the motor to rotate and can lead to a tough clog. Expandable foods like rice and pasta when mixed with water will expand in your pipes and can cause a clog. Avoid coffee grinds as well. Even though the disposal can handle the coffee grinds your pipes do not fare so well.
3) Never dump all your scraps into the garbage disposal at once and then turn it on. To avoid clogs, dump scraps in the garbage and scrape plates before placing them in the sink.
Keep your garbage disposal on and the water running when you put food through it. This will make it easier for it to slice up all the food.
If you follow these instructions and still hear a humming or clicking sound coming from your garbage disposal, there is a good chance it simply needs to be reset by pressing the button on the bottom of the unit.
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