{"id":3314,"date":"2015-01-12T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2015-01-12T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:37:39","slug":"installing-a-garbage-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/installing-a-garbage-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a Garbage Disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our old garbage disposal was leaking and really reeking (I think it corroded to the point where garbage was festering in parts it shouldn&#8217;t be in).  I picked up a new <a href=\"http:\/\/m.lowes.com\/pd\/InSinkErator-Badger-34-HP-Garbage-Disposal\/3582742\">Insinkerator Badger 15ss &#8211; 3\/4 hp with stainless steel grinders<\/a> at the local Lowes.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting this to be a very difficult install as it was replacing an existing disposal and same brand.  Well, it took about 1.5 hours.  I had neglected to figure in my 5 and 8 year-old helpers.  <\/p>\n<p>My helpers spent most of the time arguing over who would hold the flashlight.  This was even less useful when one of them discovered it had a strobe setting.  There were also a number of &#8220;discussions&#8221; about the correct (i.e. prettiest color) wire nuts to use.  We also discovered that plumbers putty is just as much fun as play dough and that the dog won&#8217;t eat it.  That later bit was surprising.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a good install; my first disposal replacement.  Now to replace the batteries in my flashlight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our old garbage disposal was leaking and really reeking (I think it corroded to the point where garbage was festering in parts it shouldn&#8217;t be in). I picked up a new Insinkerator Badger 15ss &#8211; 3\/4 hp with stainless steel grinders at the local Lowes. I wasn&#8217;t expecting this to be a very difficult install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}