Prevent a Garbage Disposal Disaster During Thanksgiving

If you're hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year, it's sensible to wrap thought around putting a cleanup strategy in place. You might hesitate and think it's something you've handled fairly well before.

However, it's not the singular concern. We're plumbing experts and want to share the best Thanksgiving garbage disposal tips to help prevent a disastrous environment after dinner.

With your garbage disposal working overtime this festive season, you should invest extra effort to lessen the frustration and remove garbage properly.

Fruit/vegetable trimmings, potato peels, and other food scraps cause health hazards if it's not disposed of correctly.

Keeping Garbage Disposal and Drains Operable

You shouldn't overwork your garbage disposal. If you're disposing of large food scraps, you should reduce the size. In addition, you should allow time for an in-sink garbage disposal to grind food scraps properly.

Another all-important step to keep drains unclogged is that you dispose of grease correctly. Instead of throwing wet grease down your drains, you should allow it to solidify and dispose of it in the trash. It'll save you the trouble of having your kitchen sink clogged after or during Thanksgiving.

Proper Disposal of Leftovers

Normally, you just let everything go down the drain, including your Thanksgiving leftovers. You might not know yet, but it'll haunt you later. So, instead let's do it right sooner not later. To save your sink, simply scrape off all food scraps properly before washing dishes in the sink.

Surely, you can't afford a backed up kitchen sink or drain, especially when guests are around. Furthermore, such a disaster is a threat to your Thanksgiving dinner. Additionally, you'll want to store leftovers in the trash properly to avoid insects.

Why Grease and Oil Don't Belong in Your Drains?

Similar to how water helps smoothen the process of digestion in humans. Our garbage disposal needs it, to process waste smoothly. Our expert advice to those hosting Thanksgiving is to turn the tap on and allow water to moisten food as it passes through the plumbing.

Oil, fats and grease are elements that harden when it passes through drains. Unfortunately, these elements usually stick to components inside the plumbing and fixtures. As our drains accumulate waste, it'll eventually become clogged.

If it's a method you practice, it's already costing you. If you stop now, you can reduce your yearly plumbing expenditures and start saving.

As plumbing experts, we've handled numerous cases of this nature and understand the frustration it causes especially during Thanksgiving. If you're handling a plumbing emergency during this festive event and want discreet services we're your rescue. Our trained plumbers use the best high-end equipment and provide world-class satisfaction.

Don't get clogged up this Thanksgiving in your Colonial Heights, VA home, call Colonial Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc.today at (804) 526-8415.