On Dec 20, 6:28*pm, "Janet B." > wrote:
> "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.
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> > You should never run the disposal with hot water.
> Correct
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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That's what I was getting at, but didn't spell it out. Thanks.

N.