![]() Here are some possibilities to work through in order: 1. If you pop the button back in and nothing happens when you try to turn the waste disposal back on, it points to an electrical issue, so the best way to approach the problem is to eliminate the possible causes one by one until you find the issue. These two different scenarios point to what’s wrong with your disposal unit, so let’s look at each in turn. If it’s the first of these, you’re lucky because you don’t have any further repairs or investigating to do – but if it’s one of the latter two, you’ll need to work out what’s going on. If your red button pops out and you pop it back in, either the garbage disposal will start working again, nothing will happen, or the disposal will hum but won’t grind (in which case, the button will usually pop back out again after a few seconds). Troubleshooting your garbage disposal Button This means pressing the red button alone is usually not very useful if you don’t find and fix the problem first – so now let’s look at some common reasons for the button to pop out and how to fix them. ![]() However, if you don’t resolve the problem before resetting the garbage disposal, the button will just pop straight back out again when you switch it on – or the unit may work for a few seconds before the button pops out again and the whole thing stops working again. When this happens, you need to work out what caused the button to pop out and fix it – and once you resolve the problem, pressing the reset button will get things going again. Similarly, garbage disposals are made in such a way that when there is a problem – for example, if something gets stuck in the disposal – the red button pops out and the system stops working to protect it from further damage. When there’s a problem with an electric circuit – perhaps it gets overloaded or an appliance burns out – the circuit breaker trips to prevent a fire from starting or anything else untoward from happening. You can think of a garbage disposal as being a little bit like an electrical circuit with a circuit breaker. Why do you need to reset a garbage disposal? Image Credit: insider ![]() That’s all you need to do.īut now let’s go into more detail about when and why you need to use the little red button – and we can also look at a few tips for troubleshooting your garbage disposal at the same time. If the button has popped out, just press it in to reset it. ![]() If you want to reset your garbage disposal but don’t know how to do it, look underneath the garbage disposal unit for a little red button. ![]()
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