Care and Maintenance of the Garbage Disposal
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For folks looking for advice that is neither tongue-in-cheek nor specific to a certain house in Virginia that I no longer own, try checking out the following:



My disposer motor, after sitting idle for 8 months in AZ (I’m a ’snowbird’) doesn’t sound good. It was working fine before I closed my residence last March. I poured oil down drain & left it. I covered drain with zip bag half full of water. Did the motor dry out too much? I don’t have any instruction manual for the disposer.