Anonymous wrote:OXO countertop food bucket.

That bucket will be smelly.
We throw food trash in the freezer. We have a small chest freezer in the basement for that. Take it out to the curb on trash day. No fuss, no smell and no rodents.

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Anonymous wrote:Hello…need some advice/recommendations about clogged kitchen sink. My go to service was at my house on Saturday and supposedly snaked it but now I have same problem as before.

I’m in Northern VA/Arlington. Who is your go to plumbing service to fix things like this? Don’t/can’t spend a lot of money right now…

Call them back again. They will do it for free if reclogged in that short of a time period.

Unless you are using a garbage disposal? Nobody with any plumbing knowledge uses those things anymore.

What do you mean ?
People shouldn’t use garbage disposal?

That’s what my plumber told me. I now have a strainer.

Sounds like a keeper plumber.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello…need some advice/recommendations about clogged kitchen sink. My go to service was at my house on Saturday and supposedly snaked it but now I have same problem as before.

I’m in Northern VA/Arlington. Who is your go to plumbing service to fix things like this? Don’t/can’t spend a lot of money right now…

Call them back again. They will do it for free if reclogged in that short of a time period.

Unless you are using a garbage disposal? Nobody with any plumbing knowledge uses those things anymore.

What do you mean ?
People shouldn’t use garbage disposal?

No. Plumber once told me garbage disposals are good for two things:
1. Making money for companies that sell garbage disposals, and
2. Making money for plumbers.

Honest plumber! Nice!

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Anonymous wrote:Agree on not using garbage disposals. We try to compost as much as possible. The only thing we run down the disposal are citrus rinds.

I use the baking soda + vinegar + hot water cleaning routine.

Use plink to deodorize the garbage disposal.

That just neutralizes each other and destroys any cleaning ability they have. Now using separately at different times, then yes.

When our water company put in new pipes in the street, there must have been some sort of blockage created because we had a clogged and very stinky kitchen sink for more than a week. I opened the cupboard below the sink, unscrewed the P-trap (it wasn't clogged), and snaked the pipe beyond the trap. Huge debris of gross and stinky stuff plopped out. I had to do this several times. Then I played around with pouring boiling hot water, and adding vinegar and baking soda, etc.

After a while, everything came back to normal.

I love my garbage disposal. I don’t put fats down the sink or coffee grinds or rice but I haven’t had problems in all the years I’ve lived here.

Anonymous wrote:Agree on not using garbage disposals. We try to compost as much as possible. The only thing we run down the disposal are citrus rinds.

I use the baking soda + vinegar + hot water cleaning routine.

Use plink to deodorize the garbage disposal.

OXO countertop food bucket.

I keep a small table top food bucket to throw my food scraps in. I then compost it. Also, use bussing trays to rinse out the food debris before loading dishes. It keeps your dishwasher fresh and the bits of food in the dirty water in the bussing tray gets thrown in my lawn to feed the soil bacteria.

Agree on not using garbage disposals. We try to compost as much as possible. The only thing we run down the disposal are citrus rinds.