Why is my garbage disposal backing up
Clogged Kitchen Sink with Garbage Disposal? How to Solve Quickly with 3 Easy Fixes! - by DIYNate
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today on diy nate i'll be showing you
three quick and easy ways to handle what
appears to be a clogged garbage disposal
in your kitchen sink i start with a gem
disposal fix then move into solving for
clogged pipes i go in what i consider to
be the easiest to more complex fix order
first i'll show you the allen wrench fix
followed by a plunger method and finally
i'll briefly touch on opening up the
pipes i hope you find these tips helpful
and it gets your sink and disposal
humming again today on diy me we are
showing you how to fix a clogged garbage
disposal this is a common issue a lot of
people face and a lot of people know how
to do it it usually will include a tool
that looks like this it's an allen
wrench with an angle um to begin with so
that's your starting point i'm going to
show you what i got here in the sink so
as you can see there's a bunch of water
that's kind of clogged up here some
coffee grinds some other junk in there
and so we tried we've reached in there
to see if there was anything clogging it
and there isn't that we can feel but
this allen key is going to help us
turn and pivot at the bottom some people
aren't aware of this simple fix and some
people will call plumber out so really
hoping this saves you some time if you
need to buy one of these i'll leave a
link in the description to an allen set
so you can also use a standard size
allen wrench that has the standard l
i'll leave a link in how you can buy one
of those kits that has that size as well
because that's probably a little more
common than this this tool that comes
with it but we're gonna get up under
here and you can see i'm just going
right up underneath there usually will
be a hexagon uh port right there in the
bottom and you'll just get your allen
key in there and once you've got it in
you're gonna take it and typically it
should
it should turn and once you've got it
turned you know the propeller is uh
gonna spin you might have to get a
little bit of an angle in there
and i'll do it a couple times to make
sure it's actually spinning freely
in this case yeah it's spinning i feel
like we've got our uh whatever was going
on there probably now working we'll try
it out again hopefully and we'll see if
there's something else down there
got the water running is typically
doesn't seem to be doing what we needed
to do right now we'll come back for that
in just a second here we are
troubleshooting a clogged sink that has
a disposal the first step i've done is
i've taken this and tried to see if i
turned the the propeller in there that
did not loosen the uh the material so i
think we've got a clog and i'm gonna try
my second step here and this is a pretty
common one a lot of you probably know to
use a plunger but some people don't even
think of this they're used to using it
on a toilet they actually can work on a
sink as well just want to be careful you
don't create too much pressure and push
your entire sink down um that can also
detach from your countertop so you want
to be real careful if you do this you
don't apply significant force you just
need to apply a little bit of force just
be careful you don't push it so let's
get a shot of this so you can see the
water is backed up in here
and you can see how there's a lot of
water in there we've added some water to
just give us enough to be able to push
down i'm going to take it and i'm going
to gently push down
and we're hoping that did it uh we'll
see
you can start to see some water going a
little bit down we're trying to run the
disposal again here
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works like a charm usually when we're
under your water while you're doing that
so whatever the blockage was probably
potato peels or
onions skin or something might have
gotten down there that's the fix for
today so we tried the allen key we
followed it up with the plunger if we
had to go elsewhere let me show you this
as well we had to go for one more fix my
next step would have been coming down
here and
detaching the fittings here and getting
that clog
unstuck most likely some debris got
stuck up in here that that push that i
just made it pushed it through and so
that saves you a lot of energy i hate
having to undo these things because then
you gotta catch the water that comes out
but the good news is for us we're back
on track uh five minutes or so uh just
going through the troubleshooting steps
so hopefully that saves you some time
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good stuff if this saved you some time
and have a good one
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