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Garbage Disposer dilemma Sasha 08-09-2005
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Posted by DJ on August 10, 2005, 9:31 am



>I did have a problem with a dishwasher that had to do with the disposer.
>I hooked up the dishwasher drain to drain into the disposer.
>Every now and then when you opened the dishwasher after it did a load of
>dishes, there would be some dirty water that stayed in the DW.
>You would then have to re-wash everything.
>The problem was........my wife wasn't always running the disposer when she
>put stuff in it.
>The disposer would partially plug up and when the DW pumped the dirty water
>out, some of it would sit in the disposer and when the pump stopped, the
>water would run back into the DW.
>I changed the discharge to below the disposer and haven't had a problem
>since.

Wouldn't looping the drain line, with the high point above the
disposal outlet, preclude this from happening?

DJ


Posted by on August 10, 2005, 9:47 am


There are 3 solutions to the problem. One is put a switch on the wall
near the sink, which is the most common. Another is buy one of the
batch type disposers that run when you put the lid on it. They are
usually used for homes where small kids are a concern, And the last
solution, I'm pretty sure I've seen a relay type gizmo that will turn
the disposal on. The settup has a push button that goes in a spare
hole in the sink, like where a soap dispenser would go. From the
button to the relay I think they use air to activate it, so for saety,
there is no electric going to the actual sink button.



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