Recommendation for someone to fix my garbage disposal?

[pyrric.livejournal.com]

So my garbage disposal is well and truly broken; neither the reset button nor the put-a-hex-wrench-in-the-bottom-and-turn-it method of DIY fixing did a damn thing, and my sink remains full of funky water and cilantro flotsam. And I honestly don't have any idea who to call--an electrician? A plumber? Who knows how to fix these things?

If someone could recommend to me a local-ish person I could call to come fix my garbage disposal, I'd be very grateful.

Comments

[mattdm [typekey.com] (from livejournal.com)]

These things are built to the quality standard of toasters, not like real appliances. Generally, you don't fix them, you just replace them. (They're priced a bit more than a toaster, but not by that much.)

A plumber will certainly do the job, but that's gonna cost you probably the minimum hourly charge, so a hundred bucks or so -- more than the disposal itself. Whatcha really want is a handyperson.

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[ukelele.livejournal.com]

*lol*

Your snark, it is blinding! :)

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, I thought I was show_your_cans.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

*in

[bettyw.livejournal.com]

Not intending to impugn your intelligence, but it it at all possible that someone in your household threw something like a bunch of grease down the sink? I came home once to hear my partner tell me we needed a new disposal b/c ours had stopped working - after trying the reset switch, etc. I asked what she had put in the drain recently... BACON GREASE! It had solidified around the disposal blades so it couldn't work. I fixed it by emptying as much of the stagnant water as possible, then applying BOILING (not just faucet-hot) water to re-melt the grease and flush it out.

Give it a try - it's no worse if it doesn't work.