"Nancy2" > wrote in message
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>> > best bet was never to put food down it deliberately and to run plenty
>> > of hot
>> > water down it every day.
>
> You should never run the disposal with hot water.
Correct
>
> Disposals: Get at least 3/4 h.p. power, or more if you can afford
> it. Run LOTS of water when you use it. If you're putting down veggie
> bits, etc., use your common sense to parse out the feed, so you aren't
> jamming big chunks of everything at once. Use LOTS of water while the
> disposal is running, and make sure you run it long enough after you're
> done putting stuff in it, to make sure the water is flushing it
> through the sewer line. Use LOTS of water.
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> N.
You are not running the water to merely get the foodstuff through the
disposal, but to run it through the line. So, visualize -- how far is it
from your disposal to the place where the water gets into the sewer line?
Run the water long enough to get that far. If you don't, you end up
leaving goop in the plumbing lines where it begins to adhere to the pipe
walls.
Janet