Garburators

At Crystal Waters, we take pride in offering top-notch garburator services to enhance your kitchen’s functionality and cleanliness. A garburator, or garbage disposal unit, simplifies the process of cleaning dishes by grinding up food waste and sending it down the drain. Our team of licensed plumbers ensures efficient installation, maintenance, and care for your garburator, preventing issues such as clogged drains and unpleasant odours.

Garburators

At Crystal Waters, we take pride in offering top-notch garburator services to enhance your kitchen’s functionality and cleanliness. A garburator, or garbage disposal unit, simplifies the process of cleaning dishes by grinding up food waste and sending it down the drain. Our team of licensed plumbers ensures efficient installation, maintenance, and care for your garburator, preventing issues such as clogged drains and unpleasant odours.

How Garburators Work

Garburators, also known as garbage disposals, are devices installed under the sink that shred food waste into small particles
that can be safely flushed through the plumbing system. Here’s how they work:

  1. Activation: When you turn on the garburator using its switch, the motor inside the unit starts to rotate.
  2. Grinding Mechanism: The rotating motor powers a series of grinding blades or a grinding plate, which is housed inside the disposal unit. These blades are designed to chop up food waste into fine particles. Some garburators use a shredder ring and impellers instead of blades to grind the food.
  3. Centrifugal Force: As the food waste is ground, the centrifugal force generated by the spinning blades or plate pushes the waste against the sides of the grinding chamber. This helps to break the food into smaller pieces and ensures that they are thoroughly ground.
  4. Flushing: Once the food waste is sufficiently ground, it is mixed with water that is typically running from the sink. The water helps to wash the ground particles through the discharge port and into the home’s plumbing system. The waste is then carried away through the pipes to the sewage system or septic tank.
  5. Safety and Maintenance: Many garburators include safety features such as a manual reset button in case of a jam and an overload protection mechanism. Regular maintenance, like cleaning and checking for blockages, is important to keep the garburator functioning properly.


Garburators are designed to handle small food scraps and organic waste, making them a convenient addition to the kitchen for managing daily food waste. However, they should not be used for hard or fibrous materials, such as bones or large quantities of fibrous vegetables, as these can damage the unit or cause clogs in the plumbing system.

We service all Garburators makes and models, working with top brands to ensure quality and reliability.

At Crystal Waters, we offer a selection of top-name brands to fit your needs and budget. Our dedicated team ensures year-round comfort and peace of mind, backed by the quality and service you expect.

 

Benefits of Home Garburators

Garburators can be a valuable addition to your home, especially if you would enjoy:

How Can We Help?

Garburators, like anything in your home, require proper upkeep to ensure they’re operating effectively.
At Crystal Waters, we want to help you prevent issues from arising,
which is why we offer comprehensive care services for your entire home.

Installation & Replacement

We’re happy to install a new or replace an existing garburator to maximize your kitchen’s efficiency. 

Repairs & Cleaning

Like anything in your home, garburators need cleaning and repairs. Trust our experts to do the job right. 

Preventative Maintenance

Get ongoing support to prevent issues before they arise with our partnerships.

Warranty

We’ll help you choose the best warranty based on your home’s needs.

Our Crystal Clear Process

Our Crystal Clear process begins with your choice of a digital form submission or a friendly conversation to share essential details about your needs, equipment, and the history of your mechanical system. Much like your doctor investigates your medical condition, our experts will ask targeted questions to understand what is happening with your home’s mechanical system. By efficiently narrowing down diagnoses and solutions prior to our arrival, we come prepared to offer the best remedies and improvements for you.

Understanding the nature of your mechanical issues allows our team to properly triage the severity of the situation, dispatching our techs based on levels of safety, protection of your property, and accommodating your schedule whenever possible. Our team is equipped to walk you through emergency situations such as no heat, water line breaks, sewer backups, and other serious failures that can happen when mechanical systems are not maintained or used correctly.

An experienced Crystal Waters technician arrives on time, equipped with the tools and knowledge to perform a thorough assessment. After conducting a detailed inspection of your plumbing or HVAC system, your tech will diagnose and document any issues, reporting to you exactly what is happening. Our techs are also trained and instructed on every call to inspect your entire system and identify potential problems so that as a team we can create a plan to avoid inconvenient and costly system failures.

After our comprehensive assessment, which may be digital or in person depending on the situation, we provide a clear and transparent proposal outlining the necessary repairs, maintenance, or enhancements you requested. The scope of the work, materials required, and the cost involved will be clearly shared with transparency so you can make an informed decision. Crystal Waters will always provide multiple options for your consideration whenever possible.

With your authorization to perform the work outlined in the proposal, our professional technicians get to work preparing the work site to ensure your home and belongings are protected. We prioritize safety, quality and efficiency, using industry-leading practices and materials to complete the job. Throughout the process, we maintain open communication, keeping you informed of our progress.

Upon completing the service, your Crystal Waters tech will conduct and document a thorough quality control check to ensure everything is functioning correctly. Your tech will walk you through exactly how to use and take care of your mechanical system, and will restore the work area, leaving your home as tidy as we found it. Your satisfaction is our priority, and we want you to feel confident in our services. After collecting your payment, your technician will upload every detail of the service call to your customer profile so our entire team will know exactly where we left off anytime you contact us, or when you are due for preventative maintenance service.

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Kitchen hood fan ducting
I will highly recommend Crystal waters, Mike was very helpful and polite and him and his team completed the work on time.
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Leaky toilet
I called Crystal Waters about a leaky toilet. Their staff who responded were very professional, knowledgeable, and efficient. The repair techs were on time and the repair was very reasonably priced. For my next plumbing or heating concern or question I will be definitely calling Crystal Waters.
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Clogged drains and a leak.
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