OMFG The drain clogged

[Circlenaut]

I've been living in this 4 bedroom apartment for the past 3 weeks. My buddies and I decided to do some kitchen renovation with the landlords approval. We did labor (plus my dad) and landlord paid for parts. During this we decided to get a trash disposer for the sink.

When I used the disposer to do some good work today the drain clogs. It didn't clog the new system we put in for the kitchen, it had to clog the freaken house system. The only reason I know this is because when I let it back up with hot work the metal piping of the house gets hot. Luckily my dad has one of those drain snake.

Does this mean when we do fix it that we can never use the trash disposer again? Is there some heavy duty draino NaOH mixture to widen the Inner walls of the old house pipes?

Sorry if I'm not being very gramatical I just spent the last 2 hours cleaning the kitchen after water gushed out of the pipe when I had look see.

 

[bctbct]

how much of what did you put in the disposal? Its not a pig you know.

 

[Circlenaut]

Originally posted by: bctbct
how much of what did you put in the disposal? Its not a pig you know.

I put in some old pasta and veggies from the fridge.

 

[bctbct]

If you put a lot of stuff down fast its likely to clog the drain. Ususally if we are throwing out leftovers we put them in the trash. Watch out for vegetable peelings, they seem to clump together and cause clogs.

 

[Circlenaut]

Originally posted by: bctbct
If you put a lot of stuff down fast its likely to clog the drain. Ususally if we are throwing out leftovers we put them in the trash. Watch out for vegetable peelings, they seem to clump together and cause clogs.

This was the reason why we got it. Back in my old apartment I didn't have one and had to have two kitchen trashes one for non-parishable stuff and another for food. I'd have to throw out the food everyday otherwise it would stink the house. Being a busy college student that was very annoying. When I lived with the parents we had one that would except anything...

I knew the one we got in the store was a bit weaker and of less quality...Actually I don't think it's even the disposers fault. I think with hte house being 100+ years old the pipes just suck... No trash disposer can fix that. Meh I guess we have to do with out it in the future.

 

[PepePeru]

anything really fibrous is not good to put down the disposal in too large of quantities. i peeled a bunch of carrots and ended up clogging up my sink after using the disposal.