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Roadkill
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Word of warning about working around your sink!!!
#1310658 - 02/15/03 08:24 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Always use a strainer over the drain to your sink or disposal when working with Straw and Verm...etc. !!!!!!!
I was making up some straw last night and some got down in my disposal...talk about a cluster fuck!!!!!!!
I spent 4 hours last night and this morning cleaning out my disposal and pipes. I had to pull my sink all the fricken way apart. I used a professional (Ridgid electric drill) snake that I just happened to have...thank God! I snaked the pipe from the sink down to the trap in my basement...then out from the trap to the sewer line in the street....talk about a pain in the ass!!!
Straw doesn't chop up too well in the disposal!!! And I'm sure all the Verm in the pipes over the past year and a half didn't help either!!!
Just thought I'd share my misfortune.... so you might be saved from this major pain in the ass!!!
Take it from an Ex pipe fitter! You probably would have had to call a plumber!
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deprave
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Roadkill]
#1310665 - 02/15/03 08:45 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Verm always get in my friends but not massive clumps or anything, luckily havent had a problem yet thou, straw he never worked with, thanks for the forwarning
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back_room_farmer
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Roadkill]
#1310815 - 02/15/03 11:46 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for the warning bro, I have had that problem in the past when flushing a bad case, had to roto rooter my whole toilet system. Will make sure to check the sink with a screen from now on!!
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failbot999
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! *DELETED* [Re: back_room_farmer]
#1310864 - 02/16/03 02:21 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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resin
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: failbot999]
#1310877 - 02/16/03 02:48 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just pour all my verm/straw/birdseed/rye down my toliet. Thatnksfortheheads up on the sink though. Will grease clog up your sink??
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Prisoner#1
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: resin]
#1310912 - 02/16/03 03:16 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah...my wife keeps pouring grease down the sink...I hve to pull the trap atleast once a month because of it....really bad part is we are on a septic system.....I'm just glad we have indor plumbing out here in the boonies....
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Hafrican
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Prisoner#1]
#1310975 - 02/16/03 04:13 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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I envy you people with garbage disposals in your sinks
It's the toilet for me!
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BigJohnson
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Hafrican]
#1311509 - 02/16/03 09:18 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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I had the same thing happen to me with coconut fibers. It was a nightmare.
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debianlinux
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: resin]
#1311643 - 02/16/03 10:40 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
I just pour all my verm/straw/birdseed/rye down my toliet
WTF?!?!? While I work over the sink, anything that gets picthed gets slung in great circular arcs into my yard. I wouldn't want to risk clogging my pipe and that stuff is nutrition for your yard. WTF?!?!
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Voodoo
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Post deleted by MOE THE MAD SCIENTIST [Re: Roadkill]
#1314149 - 02/17/03 11:25 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Chills420 version2
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Voodoo]
#1315255 - 02/17/03 05:57 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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I got a bunch of stuff stuck in the p trap under my sink. luckly after a few turns it was a str8t shot to the septic.
I drilled a hole in a plunger just a size smaller than the end of a air blow off tool for a air comp. I stuck the plunger on the drain and had my PSI up on 120PSI It took a few blasts and it blew it on thru the pipe.
I figured i'd try something simple first then snake it but the air worked this time. Although I did get busted in the face by the air hose. Next time we check and make sure the quick connect it locked in place good.
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Angry Mycologist
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Roadkill]
#1315294 - 02/17/03 06:17 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ouch. That sucks. Glad to hear your background knowledge came in handy Were you a plumber at one point Road?
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Roadkill
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Angry Mycologist]
#1315377 - 02/17/03 07:10 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sorta
I was a Pipe fitter / Welder...so I can pretty much do anything a plumber does. I worked on ships, large plants and boilers rather than homes.
I do have a Plumbers card...but really haven't ever worked as one.
-------------------- Laterz, Road Who the hell you callin crazy? You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch! Brainiac said: PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.
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Merlin
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! *DELETED* [Re: Roadkill]
#1320900 - 02/20/03 02:08 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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La_Magdalene
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Re: Word of warning about working around your sink!!! [Re: Merlin]
#1321112 - 02/20/03 04:29 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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having a river out back is pretty handy for disposal needs of spent cakes and such.
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