Disposal Failure

Little Kat had dish duty today. He came and told us that the garbage disposal was not working. That was suspicious. Kit Kat and Little Kat just cleaned out one of our fish tanks. They have a tendency to let small pebbles from the fish tank go down the disposal and clog it up. Momoko interrogated Kit Kat. She said that the disposal stopped working. Her excuse was that she was going to bring it up during family meeting night.

First we directed Little Kat to clean out the disposal. He was worried that the disposal would turn on as soon as he got removed item blocking it. We told Little Kat to go downstairs to cut the power to the disposal. He did not know which circuit breaker switch killed the power to the disposal. This was an easy problem to solve. I told Little Kat to kill main power switch to the house.

Little Kat brought down our most powerful flashlight. Then he flipped the main switch. All the lights went out in the house. We could hear the gerbils running around alarmed that it got dark. The power supply to our Internet hardware was beeping because no electricity was being fed to it. Little Kat tried to clear the disposal. He failed.

Kit Kat had to get in there. The problem was compounded because Little Kat tried to put all the food down the drain, expecting the disposal to chop it up. That food got extracted first. Then the kids got a partial pebble out from the disposal. They should have done that long ago. Unfortunately the disposal was still not functional.

I had the kids climb under the sink and check the dispoal for any reset buttons. Sometimes devices like this have a switch which pops like one on a GFE power outlet. Little Kat found a red switch on the bottom of the disposal. When he pressed it, the disposal came on. $200 service call avoided.