I always use a car scissors type jack to shove / hold the new garbage disposal in place before tightening the locknut. Works every time, Handyman! Could be useful as you get older and weaker. :)
The Houston area market that I am in will not support those rates. I charge around $125/hr give or take. Which is how I bid jobs when I give them a cost as I don’t give them that rate or work by the hr. Most of my customers are fine with it. I lose some that think it is too much. I do better than that rate with some work I do. In our area people were freaking out when things froze and they paid a licensed plumber $500 or so per hr for emergency repairs to get water restored to their homes. So they sure are not going to pay me that.
Great show Handy. 35 years ago I replaced a disposal. Talked to my dad and he said, son did the reset button not work.? I said Dad, what reset button? We laughed at my skills over that one. Needless to say I learned a valuable lesson that day. Plus ended up with a working spare disposal.
Hey handyman! Do you ever think about putting together recap videos for the bigger projects, like the HVAC replacement, etc.? It’s nice to follow along on the full-length videos but then it might be nice after a few weeks of watching to go back and see a summary, maybe with some learnings and gotchas and whatnot. Thanks!
I’ve seen a similar chunk of plastic in a disposal that I replaced. The one I had though was a little thicker, but also came out of the drain port. Thought maybe it was part of the guts of the disposal that had come apart either when it died or caused its death..
LOVE your channel!! I'm pretty anal about avoiding any pressure on the basket strainer and tail pipe because it can cause premature failure of the seal between the sink and the basket strainer.
Beauty job Handyman, as always! Any tips on what to use, to get rid of garb-stench 🤮 in an older..but working well, garburator? Mine is real stinky lol
Had to do this about a month ago. I turned on the water in the sink and heard not good water sounds. Looked under the sink and water was leaking from the reset button location. Super easy to do, anyone can do it.
I had unboxed a new garbage disposal from Costco (since I had replaced one in my condo previously) and then pressed this button... Returned the Costco disposal.
Mine broke and when I took it off the seal on the drain and connector gave wave. In fixing that the sink came loose from the counter… YT Handyman videos are not real life. :)
Can’t understand why anyone would want a garbage disposal, do people ever read what they can’t put down their disposal? You can’t put in bones, potato peels, pasta or rice,fruit peels,onions, fats and grease, shells, fibrous foods, starchy foods, pasta, oatmeal, stringy vegetables by the time you figure out what you can put in you might as well just put it in garbage😂 and besides why would anyone want all that crap going down their sewer pipes😜
@@theinvestinghouse that’s why the handyman has a lots of business 😀 what I said most disposal manufacturers recommendations of what not to put in that is written in their maintenance section what not to do🤔
Insinkerator Badger 5 is an insane product. Very popular yet inexplicably made of galvanized steel, not stainless. Ridiculously stupid design that's guaranteed to fail in 5-7 years.
All due respect but you’re explaining how a home owner can save money by troubleshooting/installing a disposal by themselves yet pushing for them to purchase premade meals. SMH 🤦🏻♂️ Yeah man. I get it.. 😏
