We’ll begin with the kitchen. Most of us today have what’s called a garbage disposer in our sinks. If you don’t know what a garbage disposer is, it’s the loud grinder under the main drain in your kitchen sink. The purpose of a garbage disposer (also often called an erator) is to chew up the immediate debris from dish washing before it gets into the piping. The erator is a powerful and handy tool to have in your sink because it can proactively solve a lot of kitchen drain issues. Some common mistakes people make with garbage disposers include accidental grinding of metal or hard materials and letting grime sit for too long. If you’re an avid dishwasher then you appreciate how much grime can be down in that drain because we’ve all had to dig down there for one reason or another. Drains come with a handy removable protective grate so that nothing large or precious gets in. The use of this little tool is highly recommended because sometimes you may not even notice small metal objects or other hard materials fall into this drain hole that the grate would have caught. When these materials are in the disposer and you begin erating, the blades will dull causing them to be ineffective and allowing larger particles and grime to get into your piping and cause problems. Another common mistake is simply not using the disposer. If you allow waste from your dishes to linger in your erating machine, you are exposing the machinery to decay and malfunction in addition to exposing your kitchen to lingering odors and exposing your piping to more blockages.