Garbage Disposal

Beyond the Basics: Advanced Techniques for Solving Garbage Disposal Problems

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A malfunctioning garbage disposal can disrupt your kitchen's routine, presenting many challenges. The signs of distress are evident from the ominous hum without action to water leaks and slow draining. Notably, the need for swift action becomes apparent when flipping the switch yields no response. For many, the initial step in troubleshooting involves a simple press of the reset button located underneath the unit—a quick potential fix. However, should this fail, the culprits often range from electrical issues to jams, clogged pipes, or worn seals. Home Remedies for Common Garbage Disposa...
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Never Pour Grease or Oil Down Your Drain

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The Hidden Dangers of Grease and Oil in Your Drains Unseen Consequences: The Build-up Issue When cooking grease or oil is poured down the drain, it may seem like a harmless and convenient disposal method. However, this practice leads to significant plumbing problems. As these substances cool, they solidify, creating stubborn blockages in your home's plumbing system. Over time, these blockages can cause severe clogs, leading to costly and inconvenient repairs. Environmental Impact: Beyond Your Kitchen Sink The issue extends beyond your home. When grease and oil enter the sewage syst...
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Happy New Year’s Tampa! Here Are 10 Plumbing New Year’s Resolutions You Might Want to Consider

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New year’s resolutions are an opportunity to develop new habits, new ideas, new whatever-you-want. For us, the biggest thing to focus on each year is how we can better help and serve the communities we live in by providing the best response times, the latest technology, and so on. Part of our goal at Cass Plumbing is to be a better plumbing service provider, this includes working to provide better direction and advice to help the people in our community take care of their own plumbing. On that note, we’ve put together this list of ten plumbing new year’s resolutions to help you to best take...
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10 Plumbing Tips to Avoid Christmas Plumbing Problems

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In Tampa, The Christmas holiday is a time for families to come together and enjoy good company and good food. Unfortunately, an untimely clogged drain or toilet can quickly undermine the good spirits and bring the festivities screeching to a halt. By keeping a few important plumbing tips in mind, however, you can help ensure that holiday plumbing problems won't put a damper on the merriment. After all, you want your holidays to be remembered for presents, not plungers! 1. Leftovers in the Trash, Not the Drain When it’s time to clean up, resist the urge to simply scrape the leftovers off your...
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What’s The Smell in Your Kitchen Coming From?

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After the Tampa Thanksgiving, do you have a mysterious, unpleasant odor in your kitchen? Something that doesn’t go away, no matter how many times you mop or take out the garbage? Check your kitchen sink. Your kitchen sink might be the hardest working plumbing appliance in your home. If there’s a problem with it, chances are the food you run through the disposal or the grease you rinse off dirty plates isn’t getting properly removed from your house. When food or grease gets caught in your kitchen sink’s pipes, it begins to rot. Rotting food or other debris can produce terrible smells and ...
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WHY THANKSGIVING IS A BUSY HOLIDAY DAY FOR TAMPA PLUMBERS

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Thanksgiving is a big part of American culture. Not only that it’s the most widely celebrated national holiday, but it also comes with lots of food and guests. Surprising or not, Thanksgiving Day is also the eve of one of the busiest days of the year for residential plumbers in Tampa. On Black Friday and the weekend after Thanksgiving, the majority of people either spend time with their families or shop, but the plumbers get really busy due to plumbing emergencies that occur after Thanksgiving celebrations. While you are enjoying your turkey and sweet potato casserole, your greasy dishes an...
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Cleaning Your Garbage Disposal, How to do it Right

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Garbage disposals are the work horse of the average Tampa kitchen. They suck away food waste, slurp up flat soda, and in general help make homes a little less wasteful and a little more eco-friendly. It’s not too difficult to keep your garbage disposal working at its best. First things first, know what things aren’t supposed to be put into the garbage disposal. Fibrous materials, coffee grounds, liquid grease, bones, fruit pits, or egg shells. These are all things that can dull blades, cause clogs, or generally impede the performance of your garbage disposal. Next up is regularly cle...
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Getting Your Plumbing in Shape for 2021

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Where has the year gone? It seems like yesterday was Thanksgiving, and here we are at New Year’s 2021! Most of the time, we start a new year with plenty of resolutions to change or improve our lives – things like losing weight, eating better, being more patient, etc. This blog post is about being more responsible, especially when it comes to your plumbing system. It makes good sense to do this, because so many plumbing problems can be avoided with a little discipline. And any time you avoid a plumbing problem, you’re keeping your own money in your own pocket. T...
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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Home’s Plumbing

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At Cass Plumbing we believe that New Year’s resolutions are a great opportunity to develop new habits, new ideas, and new beginnings. At Cass Plumbing, the biggest thing we try to focus on each year is how we can better help and serve the communities throughout the Greater Tampa region by providing the best response times, highest quality plumbing service and the latest plumbing technology. Part of our goal to be a better Tampa plumbing service includes providing better direction and advice to help the people in our community take care of their own plumbing. With this thought in mind, we’ve pu...
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Holiday Plumbing Tips for Your Garbage Disposal

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How to Prevent Garbage Disposal Clogs You can prevent garbage disposal clogs by watching the quantity the substance of the things that go down your drain. The term “garbage disposal” is misleading because it is most certainly not meant for garbage to be put down it. While some manufacturers make claims to the contrary, garbage disposals are vulnerable to many objects. Be careful what goes down your garbage disposal during the holidays. Do NOT Put These Items Down the Garbage Disposal Glass, metal, plastic, and paper Grease, oils, fats, and cheeses String vegetables (celery, cor...
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