Garbage Disposal & Kitchen Plumbing in Kansas City, MO

The kitchen has more plumbing connections packed into a small space than anywhere else in the house — disposal, sink drain and trap, dishwasher drain and supply, and usually a refrigerator ice maker line running through a cabinet or a basement ceiling. Jacob the Plumber handles all of it for Kansas City homeowners.

A disposal that hums but won't turn is jammed, and it's often recoverable — we clear the obstruction, free the flywheel and reset the unit. A disposal that does nothing at all is usually a tripped reset or a failed motor. A disposal dripping from the bottom seam is finished; that's a sealed housing and it gets replaced, not repaired. We'll tell you which of the three you have before quoting anything.

The most common kitchen call we get isn't the disposal at all — it's the drain downstream of it, packed with grease and food waste, or a poorly assembled trap and tailpiece arrangement left over from a previous repair that never drained properly to begin with. We rebuild the drain assembly correctly, with proper slope, correct trap arm length and a real air gap or high loop for the dishwasher, so it stops backing up into the sink.

We also install and replace ice maker lines, dishwasher supply and drain connections, and sink shutoff valves, and we'll add accessible shutoffs where a previous installer left none. Everything is quoted flat-rate before we start, and the cabinet under your sink gets dried and wiped before we leave.