How Can a Garbage Disposal Improve Your Home?

How can a garbage disposal improve your home? In many ways! It will improve the value of your home. It will improve the value of your life because your home will be cleaner and more organized. You’ll have more time to spend on more important things than cleaning up your kitchen and taking out the trash often.

Using a garbage disposal can be helpful to the environment as well, as your trash gets compressed and you are contributing less waste. Although a garbage disposal can handle a lot of organic matter, there are certain things that you should never put down there, simply because they could break the disposal’s blades.

Things like nuts, shellfish shells, pineapple, pumpkin, coffee grounds, bones, and eggshells may all be too hard or fibrous, and the blades might break. Here is just a selection of the benefits of having a garbage disposal at home.

Clean Pipes

When your pipes house debris, food or otherwise, you are far more likely to experience plumbing clogs. Not only are clogs messy and inconvenient at the moment.

They can cause other problems in the long term too. Chronic clogs can cause your pipes and drains to weaken, which means that you are more prone to plumbing leaks, which are even messier and more inconvenient.

What’s more is that water leaks can cause a lot of costly damage. If you have a garbage disposal, you don’t have to worry about food scraps falling where they are going to cause problems. Instead of getting lodged in the drain and in the pipe, they get flushed away through the disposal.

Easier to Clean Your Dishes

Do you scrape your plates into the garbage can and then have to make your way back to the sink to rinse the plates before they go in the dishwasher or before you wash them by hand?

That’s inefficient and time-wasting. In addition, there is a good chance that you are dropping food and other debris on the floor in the process, creating additional messes to clean up.

With a garbage disposal in place, you can have a “one-stop shop” of sorts. You’ll be able to scrape and rinse all at the same time.

Better Smelling Kitchen

Nobody likes a smelly garbage can. Even if you use scented garbage bags, that may not do much to contain the smell as it makes its way through your home.

As your waste storage is greatly reduced with a garbage disposal, you can expect those smells to disappear.

Are you curious to learn about how other plumbing tweaks and additions could improve your home? In Stuart, FL call us today.