Anonymous
Post 03/17/2023 11:48     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
How could you be so STUPID?
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2023 11:41     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Anonymous wrote:You may need to use a specialwrench to rotate the gears. Go to the hardware store if you don't have one. They will sell you something that looks like a handle with a square rod on it. Insert the rod into the hole underneath the base of the disposal and rotate it a couple of times.


Basic Allen wrench works too
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2023 11:30     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Call a handyman. That's real bad.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 15:28     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
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.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 00:23     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
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.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2023 00:02     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
I just put psyllium husk down the drain. Very expensive lesson! So much goo and so much mess. Why oh why. Why???!!!! Plumber is coming tomorrow. Goo keeps coming up the sink, it’s multiplying. It feels like it’s alive. I put the entire container down the drain!
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 23:48     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Anonymous wrote:OP here, looks like my husband will be taking apart the trap today. my son woke me up at 4am this morning to cut his nails (wtf??), and i checked it again then, but water is still not draining.

lol, he's going to torment me mercilessly for being such an idiot.


This was the best part. I've never poured Metamucil down my drain or been woken up for this specific reason, but both seem totally possible.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 16:33     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
I think this thread probably sets the record for the most revived thread on DCUM. It's not long, but it never dies.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 16:31     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Anonymous wrote:This clearly keeps happening. Why would anyone pour Metamucil down a sink? If it’s expired, why would you not put it in the garbage?

Why would you not put it in the organic compost bin?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 09:57     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
This clearly keeps happening. Why would anyone pour Metamucil down a sink? If it’s expired, why would you not put it in the garbage?
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2023 23:21     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Anonymous wrote:(I did this with couscous......it was a nightmare.....we had to snake the drain...)


LOL! I did the same thing many years ago! I think we had to clean out the pea trap.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2023 22:11     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
And stop using sink as a garbage can.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2023 22:10     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Toilet plunger. If you have 2 drains, cover one with stopper, then plunge the other
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2023 21:43     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is why I specifically requested not to have a disposal put in. I'm European and put things in the trash or the compost, where they belong.

Good luck to all the blocked disposals out there.


+1

We have 6 houses (four rentals, a vacation home and our primary home).

We have zero garbage disposals.

Never had a clog in the kitchen sink!


Have you poured Metamucil down the sink?
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2023 15:04     Subject: HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!
Anonymous wrote:This is why I specifically requested not to have a disposal put in. I'm European and put things in the trash or the compost, where they belong.

Good luck to all the blocked disposals out there.


+1

We have 6 houses (four rentals, a vacation home and our primary home).

We have zero garbage disposals.

Never had a clog in the kitchen sink!