FOAK. Sink Waste Disposal Units?

Now that my village has stepped into the 19th century and has got a mains
sewerage system, I'm considering installing the above.

Not really been worth it before, as the Klargester Bio-Disk thingumy wouldn't
have been happy with some of the slop going in there.

My question is to the FOAK, can one safely put tea-bags down the spout? I
know that bones, vegetable peelings etc can safely got down there, but I'm
worried about the bag part as it's fibrous. Does it wrap all around the
shredder part.

Won't really be much in the way of food scraps going down, as the dogs deal
with them, oh, and the occasional dinner when I'm late in from the pub!

TIA.


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I've stuck them down ours for many a year and it's still working.

Top tip: if it starts to honk feed it a lemon. I don't know if this
works for things that aren't waste disposals. Try it and report back.

 

Do geese eat lemons?

 

Why not compost them and do the 'green' thing ..

Would save on the cost of a waste disposal too ..

P.

 

I bow to your superior knowledge of the Anserinae.

Would a garage full of Guzzis be a gaggle?

 

As others say, waste disposal units eat anything. Including plastic
teaspoons.

Word of warning - if you're getting someone else to fit it, shop
around. Our machine went tits-up a few years ago. I looked in Yellow
Pages for someone who deals in them, found a local firm, who quoted
£350 (IIRC) to replace.

Well, it's called an Insinkerator and googling on that provides an
instant hit, so I got onto the UK office who asked if I'd pressed the
Reset button. Erm, what button? We'd only recently bought the house and
the thing came with it.

She explained.

She also asked if I had the special tool to juggle the munger round
with, if it locked up. Erm, what special tool? She sent me one in the
post FOC - it's a sort of cranked allen key.

I asked if they had someone local to replace it, if it turned out it
was FUBAR'd. Yes, local rep would visit and install new item for £120
(or something) if necessary. I gulped, and said that a local firm was
quoting three times that.

She said that yes, this was a problem. Local cowboys assume (probably
rightly) that nobody really knows about waste disposal machines so
charge whatever they can get away with.

As it happened, the special tool sorted it out.

Anyway, moral of the story - try Insinkerator. Good outfit.

 

A vey useful button that.

Or in our case - a broom handle - just something to rotate it in reverse
(and long enough to keep fingers WELL out of the danger zone).


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Taa, and noted.

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I agree to a point.
'cept that my composter pot-thing, just about holds the grass from the lawn.
Most of the time during winter, we store the kitchen waste and burn it on
the fire at weekends, when 'er indoors likes to have the grate lit! (more
agg!)
Composting is great idea, but how do you speed it up? It's a _real_ slow
process! I mean, my bin has been sitting with grass in it for a couple of
years now and it's not ready for emptying by far!

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Greybeard

You can't compost using grass cuttings alone, it just turns into a black
foul-smelling sludge. You need to 'cut' it with drier material,
newspaper, kitchen scraps, egg-shells, all that kind of stuff.

Composting is an art-form, and I haven't cracked it completely. Yet.

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As others say, waste disposal units eat anything. Including plastic
teaspoons.

Word of warning - if you're getting someone else to fit it, shop
around. Our machine went tits-up a few years ago. I looked in Yellow
Pages for someone who deals in them, found a local firm, who quoted
£350 (IIRC) to replace.

Well, it's called an Insinkerator and googling on that provides an
instant hit, so I got onto the UK office who asked if I'd pressed the
Reset button. Erm, what button? We'd only recently bought the house and
the thing came with it.

She explained.

She also asked if I had the special tool to juggle the munger round
with, if it locked up. Erm, what special tool? She sent me one in the
post FOC - it's a sort of cranked allen key.

I asked if they had someone local to replace it, if it turned out it
was FUBAR'd. Yes, local rep would visit and install new item for £120
(or something) if necessary. I gulped, and said that a local firm was
quoting three times that.

She said that yes, this was a problem. Local cowboys assume (probably
rightly) that nobody really knows about waste disposal machines so
charge whatever they can get away with.

As it happened, the special tool sorted it out.

Anyway, moral of the story - try Insinkerator. Good outfit.
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Noted.
I was looking that brand as it comes highly reccomneded by people I've
chatted to. Many years ago, I used to fix these things along with all other
dostic appliances when my Late Old Dad had his shop in Harringey. I think
that only Kenwood made them then, and it seemed to be that only the Jewish
fraternity of & around Golders Green, Hampstead that used them.



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B & Q here I come! ;o)

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Feeding his bike a lemon?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Greybeard belched forth and ejected the
following:

You'll need a torpedo.

That'll sink most things and will probably have no trouble sinking a
waste disposal unit

 

Wot he said, plus you can buy a compost accelerator.

Me, I just let Nature take its course.
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Replaced our sink with a stainless one and bought an Insinkerator at the
same time. £130 total.

That was 2003.

And you can compost just grass cutting on their own if you use a bio
accelerator for grass cuttings. They go all dry and black and then
compost down.

 

Bob Flowerdew

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Worms....Veg scraps.....More worms.

 

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