Help...plugged sink

[Dace]

I was cleaning up from dinner last night , chatting away and not using my head.
I scraped some artichoke and baked potato skins into the garbage disposal. I don't know what I was thinking.

Now my sink is backed up. I felt around inside the disposal and there is nothing to pull out, so it is backed up further down the pipe.

Anything I can do besides calling a plumber?

 

[SKR8PN]

Try a plunger first. If it is a double sink, plug the other side drain before attempting the plunger.

 

[Dace]

Will do, thanks!

 

[Aidenbaby]

Yeah, that'll happen with tater skins. I only put them in a little at a time with the water running real fast. Otherwise they get run out to the compost pile.

 

[ScottSD]

I would get rid if the garbage disposal.

when we moved to the country where we would have our own septic drain field, the guy that put our system recommended NOT putting one in.

Those things end up being a very expensive item because the tank needs to be pumped more often because of them.

Even in town, I wasn't a fan of them. I can remember at least one time we had to call the roto-rooter man because the sewer line got plugged up because The Wife™ put something down the disposal she probably shouldn't have.

 

[Dace]

I can't get rid of the disposal, not
my house!

 

[Damummis]

You can try the old baking soda, vinegar and hot water trick.
Get some water boiling, dump baking soda down the drain followed by white vinegar (don't waste you ACV), let it sit and bubble and gurgle and do the chemical reaction thing, then dump the whole pot of boiling water in the sink. Hopefully the bubbling and gurgling got things moving and the hot water flushes it. Good luck.

 

[miss_thenorth]

It must be an american thing, b/c in all my years, I have only ever seen one garbage disposal.
How 'bout giving it a shot of air too, to get things moving?

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I was told to never, ever put potato skins down the disposal. Most other things can go, but Step-FIL had to have 30' of pipe dug up & drilled out. They couldn't get the 100' truck mounted drain snake to go through the mass of tater skins. And it was only 5-6 potatoes.

Apparently, they gum up in the pipe & set like cement :/

 

[Dace]

OK, the plunger trick did not work. Water was coming out the air gap dohickey on the top of the ink.

I have a couple inches of cold dirty water in the sink....do you think I can still do the soda/vinegar trick?