Maintenance Helps

Maintenance Solutions

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We want to provide you with some simple solutions to challenges that may come up, along with some key things to do in the home to help avoid problems altogether.

Most of these solutions require little to no tools.

Click below on the various topics we have covered to help save you time and frustration.

 

Around the House

 

Here are a few items you can do around your home to make life easier and a little less frustrating and require items you usually have around the home or can easily access at any nearby store.

 

FAUCETS & SHOWER HEADS

Mineral deposits will develop on your faucets over time (shower head, sink, kitchen spray nozzle) so the best thing to do quarterly is pour some white vinegar into a plastic bag and submerge your faucet, shower head or nozzle into the white vinegar using a rubber band to hold it in place. Let this sit overnight and in the morning you should see a difference and maybe even some particles in the bag. If there is still some remaining mineral deposit on the fixture, use an old toothbrush to scrub the area and you should be good to go!

 


 


Electric

Plumbing


GARBAGE DISPOSAL & KITCHEN SINK

 Here are some tips and tricks to keeping your Garbage Disposal running well and your Kitchen sink from clogging.

Do NOT put into your Garbage Disposal

Non-food items

Paper, Produce Stickers, Metal, Medications – The first 3 items can get caught in the blade & burn up the motor or stop it from working all together. Medications down the drain will eventually impact the water supply.

Hard Food Items

Fruit Pits, Nut Shells, Bones, & Raw Meat – these items ultimately just bounce around the chamber and could cause a funky smell. Compost the appropriate (Pits & Shells) and Pitch the rest into the garbage.

Water Absorbing Foods

Rice, Pasta, Grains & Oats – Putting something like this down the drain will just swell and clog the drain. They are thirsty little boogers.

Paste Makers

Coffee Grounds, Nuts and Potato Peels – While these little guys can get chopped up wonderfully by the garbage disposal, they will also make a great paste in the process that can clog the drain.

Grease & Oils

People feel that if they can just pour this down the drain with hot water it will stay liquified enough to make its way out into the great beyond, BUT that is not the case, as soon as things cool enough which is not far after leaving the pipes in the home, they solidify and make a super gross and hard to penetrate substance….think stalagmites. 

Fibrous and stringy Foods

celery, corn husks, pineapple, onion and garlic skins, asparagus, and artichokes to name a few can get caught in the motor binding it up and slowing down the motor stressing it out.

 

DO’s

Turn it on!

Before you start stuffing your disposal full of food, turn on your disposal.

You wouldn’t shove your mouth full of food before you started chewing would you?

Clean it Every 2 Weeks

Fill your disposal with ice and a cup of rock salt, then run WARM (not hot) water for about a minute.

This creates a natural abrasive that will clean out any gunk and build up in your disposal.

Finally, pour a cup of vinegar along with ½ cup of baking soda into the disposal to kill any bacteria.

Smelly?

Cut up a lemon into wedges, run WARM (not hot) water down the drain and turn on your disposal and add lemons.

While this won’t create lemonade the wedges are high in citric acid and it will freshen up the smell of your disposal.

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