"bliksem" wrote in message
om...
I have twin kithen sinks, the right with a garbage disposal. I had a
pot of plain (no sauce etc.. ) cooked pasta that I decided to get rid
of. I ran water while running the disposal unit, but then I noticed
that the water was starting to block up. I removed all the ground up
pasta from the unit, but still the water will not drain. The left
kitchen sink is draining fine.
I tried a toilet plunger, but( and here's the big clue probably), the
water squirts out of the aerator. I opened the cap of the aerator. It
has a central copper pipe, but the water ( when I use the plunger
slowly ) is welling up on the outside of the copper pipe, not from
within it.
Help from the pro's please ... what do I do? Any easy way out of this?
I'm "house repair" challenged !!
Kitchen sink isn't a toilet- it really isn't up to handling that much mass,
even pureed by the disposal unit. The drain lines are SMALL. Stale food and
vegetable peelings should go in the TRASH- plastic grocery bags are great
for keeping the smell down until you carry it out to the can. The disposal
is really only good for handling the residue stuck to dishes and plates when
you rinse them off to stack in the other side of the sink before washing.

(IMHO, of course, based on many years of unjamming many different disposals
for relatives and friends and tenants of companies I worked for.)

But to fix the instant case- time to pull the trap(s) and go fishing. Make
sure to unplug the disposal first, and have a bucket and several towels to
catch the flood of crud. If disposal is jammed, you may need to drop it to
unjam it, unless reverse-rotation with a broom handle frees it up.

aem sends....