HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hit the reset button on the disposal. Every disposal has one. It's usually on the bottom of the under sink part if the disposal.

Yes, this. Press the reset button. Do not pour chemicals down the drain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How could you be so STUPID?

DP-this is human; shxt happens. Lesson learned. We all do this kind of thing from time to time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so confused. Why didn’t you just throw the container into the trash???

Call a plumber. You don’t know what you are doing.

Neighbors might go through the trash collecting medical information.

Is this a joke? Or are you seriously worried about your neighbors going through your trash???

[Anonymous]

I mixed up Metamucil and Imodium. THAT was confusing!

[Anonymous]

Call a plumber, cost you $300. Try yourself, eff it up, then call the plumber which will then cost you $600 as the plumber must not just fix the original problem but the damage you caused.

[Anonymous]

I was an idiot the other day and put too many carrot peels down my disposal, and it clogged up. I bought a sink plunger, worked like a charm!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was expired, so I poured it down my kitchen sink. Sink promptly stopped up and chunks that looked like poop came up. I cleared the disposal off all the chunks, and it is perfectly clean in there to the eye. However, water won't drain down the sink, it just sits there. Disposal makes a hum, but doesn't turn (there is no blockage in there though). I've snaked the tube drain near the top back of the dishwasher, and it seems clear.

I'm not even sure how water drains through the drain other than that hole near the top, but I'm assuming there is another hole for water to drain when you are not running the dishwasher, but I don't see it.

Does anyone have any advice to a DIY solution? Is there anything I can put in there to dissolve the fiber crap? I've used all my baking soda and vinegar, and I know not to put actual draino in there. I've also plunged, but to no avail.

Help??

Reset your disposal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was an idiot the other day and put too many carrot peels down my disposal, and it clogged up. I bought a sink plunger, worked like a charm!

For future reference, one carrot peel is too many.

[Anonymous]

Put a bucket under the trap. Disconnect the trap…dump out all the Metamucil, this should free the stoppage. Reassemble the trap and you’re done.

[Anonymous]

I haven't dumped the whole container down but in the beginning I wasn't taking it properly and it was becoming this glob of junk in the bottom of the glass.

I've poured it down the disposal a couple of times.

Now when I run this dispopsal, I get almost a burning smell, so I'm thinking that it's gunked up in the disposal. Maybe it will be cheaper if I get the plumber out here to try to fix it before it travels to the pipes in the wall.

Ugh.....lesson learned

[Anonymous]

This thread is going on 10 years now, popping up again and again. (So regular it's like it's using metamucil, too!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is going on 10 years now, popping up again and again. (So regular it's like it's using metamucil, too!)

It should be a sticky note so people have a constant reminder not to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is going on 10 years now, popping up again and again. (So regular it's like it's using metamucil, too!)

It should be a sticky note so people have a constant reminder not to do it.

What amazes me is that multiple people appear to have done this! And we let them vote!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is going on 10 years now, popping up again and again. (So regular it's like it's using metamucil, too!)

It should be a sticky note so people have a constant reminder not to do it.

What amazes me is that multiple people appear to have done this! And we let them vote!

eh, chill. it helped me once. I had some left at the bottom of the glass and had a split second thought to wash it down but I didn't based on this thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP PLEASE IGNORE THE LIQUID PLUMMER ADVICE. God almighty.

1. With the disposal turned off, take the handle end of a long broom or mop down into the teeth of the disposal at an angle.

2. Then rotate the broom against the teeth slowly, in a CLOCKWISE motion. Rotate 180º if possible.

3. Remove handle from sink.

4. Turn on disposal.

This should work.

If not, feel under the disposal for the small allen wrench hole--turn it with the wrench.

That's all I know and it has always worked.

I was going to say this. Broom handle works every time. This is the first I’m hearing of a special slot and going to Home depot to buy a tool. Wooden broom handle/or even plastic on aluminum shaft, just keep your hands closer to the drain so you don’t bend the broom.

Give the it a few swirls and back in business.