Garbage Disposal

Before we we able to settle on our house, there were a few things that the previous owner needed to fix. One of these items was the splash guard in the garbage disposal.

As you can tell, it was a bit destroyed. Well, upon our walkthrough the second time, everything appeared to be normal and fixed, with a note from the contractor saying if we ever needed further work done, to call.

Well, I didn’t hang onto that note, and now I’m really happy I didn’t. Our first day in the house, our dishwasher went on the fritz (that’s a whole different story), so we had to the dishes by hand. No biggie, but as I was washing some silverware, I happen to look down and notice that the splash guard was all ripped up again. MC and I looked at each other and confirmed that we had seen it fixed. How odd. That is, until I looked into the drain, and pulled out a small little fake splash guard that the contractor simply had just placed over top of the broken one. Great job Mr. Contractor, way to screw us over. Well, I went online to see how hard it would be to fix this little problem, and much to my surprise almost everyone had said it was an easy 10-20 minute fix. I went to our super friendly (no sarcasm, it is seriously super friendly) Home Depot and picked up a new splash guard for under $10 and then got underneath the sink to pull down the disposal.

All I had to do was detach the white pipe seen in the back, which was held on with a screw, and the twist the ring at the top until the disposal detached. Not hard at all, except it weighed a bit more than I expected it to, so I had to hold the disposal in one hand and unscrew the bolts with the other. Well, after 20 minutes and a small workout, we had a new disposal splash guard installed, thanks to yours truly.

Sorry for the bad photos, my iphone doesn’t do the best quality in low light. All in all, it was a cheap quick fix, that for some reason this contractor tried to be cheaper and quicker meaning the job wasn’t done right…or at all in this case.