Prep for Thanksgiving Guests by Cleaning Your Garbage Disposal

With cold weather and the holidays fast approaching, it’s time to focus on some of the less obvious, but very important, indoor cleaning and repair tasks to get your home in tip-top shape for holiday guests.  One of the quickest and easiest things you can do to prepare your home for the onslaught of holiday guests and the extra wear and tear your plumbing will take over the Thanksgiving holiday is cleaning your garbage disposal.

To Clean a Garbage Disposal:

• Pour 1/2 cup baking soda into the disposal.
• Follow it with a cup of white vinegar. The vinegar and baking soda will react to form frothy bubbles.
• When the bubbles subside, pour a pot of boiling water down the disposal and let it sit for about five minutes.
• Turn on the water in the sink and the disposal, and let it run until the disposal is rinsed out.

To keep your disposal smelling fresh, put some leftover chunks of lemon in an ice cube tray, cover them with water, and freeze. Whenever your garbage disposal gets a bit funky, run a few “lemon cubes” through the disposal for a quick freshen-up.  The ice chunks will scour the blades and scrape away stuck-on debris inside the disposal!

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