Garbage disposals in Bellevue homes

A garbage disposal fails in a few predictable ways: it goes dead and silent, it hums without spinning, it leaks from one of three zones, or it has simply tripped its reset button. Most of these have a homeowner-level fix that takes ten minutes and no plumber — a jammed flywheel freed with the hex wrench, a tripped reset pressed back in, a sink-flange leak re-sealed. This section walks each symptom to its cause, shows the safe fixes, and flags the failures — a leaking shell, a seized motor — where replacing a $120-$350 unit is the honest call rather than chasing a repair.