Anyone know any home remedies for freshening the sink and garbage disposal?

Question

Our sink and mostly the garbage disposal has had kind of a rank smell lately. I thought I heard something once about using lemons but I'm not sure. Anyone have any home remedies they can share?

Answer 1

Try putting some ice, a little cold water and lemon or orange peels in the disposal. The peels will freshen the smell and the ice will clean and sharpen the blades. (I have also put a small handful of whole cloves in with the ice and that works alright as well)

Answer 2

You might have two problems. A plugged line and a broken garbage disposal. Unplug the garbage disposal under the sink. Now make sure you can freely move the teeth on the garbage disposal. It will not move if something is jammed in there, removing the rubber thingy in the drain helps to see better. I think on the disposal itself there is a re-set button, you can press this and plug it back in and see what happens. It may have burned up after being jammed, in which case you need a new one. Installing one isn't real difficult, but still a challenge. If the dishwasher won't drain and the garbage disposa side won't either you have a clog somewhere. Do you have a clean-out drain? it should be outside near the kitchen outside walls . It would be a 3 or 4 ": pipe with a cap on it and a square thing to put a wrench on it. Turn it counter clockwise and remove it. be aware that it may gush whatever is in there out. If the water is standing in there you need to put a snake down there and loosen up the clog. If this clean-out has nothing in it then your clog is somewhere between the disposal, the dishwasher and the cleanout. You can also try and put the snake in the already draining side I hope this helps.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Anyone know any home remedies for freshening the sink and garbage disposal?
Our sink and mostly the garbage disposal has had kind of a rank smell lately. I thought I heard something once about using lemons but I'm not sure. Anyone have any home remedies they can share?

Answer 5

Here's what I do:
1. Grind a tray of ice cubes through the disposal
2. use some peeling from any citrus fruit, lemon. lime, orange or grapefruit.
3. Take the splash guard out and scrub it clean. (you'll be surprised how gross it is.)
You can also use some baking soda and vinegar

Answer 6

Sometimes I put a half cup or more of baking soda in the drain and let it sit for 10 minutes, then run the hot water for a minute. Also, lemons are good for smelly drains. Squeeze 2 slowly as you circle the drain. Don't run the water after this.

Answer 7

Lemons do work. Turn your disposal on and put a few lemons down there. Also the powder that you put on the carpet you can use too, along with baking soda. FYI you can put ice down your disposal to sharpen the blades. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

Ice cubes and a quartered lemon--grind it up good and sprinkle baking soda in afterwards---do once or twice a month and never put greasy food scraps in the sink. Try a pot of boiling water once in a while too....make sphagetti .

Answer 9

Baking Soda and vinegar.
This will help unclog your drains too.
Question do you have a septic system?
Because if you do it might be gas baking up from the tank and not the drain at all that would be caused be improper ventilation.
:-)

Answer 10

You probably did this as a child, but if you pour baking soda down your drain and wash it down with white vinegar, it will foam up alot and really neutralize the odors in you pipes. I remember when cereal boxes had little plastic volcanoes in them and thats what you did to make them erupt.......nevertheless, you can also buy garbage disposal cleaner to pour down the drain, but from experience I can tell you that it will not work as well.