Please remember to use lots of water during and after running your garbage disposal.

Please do not pour grease down your garbage disposal. Use a coffee can or other sealed container and place in trash can.

Things such as fat from meats and their bones (no matter how tiny) should never make their way into your disposal. The fat is likely too tough for your garbage disposal to break down. The bones, of course, can ruin the blades of your disposal.

Egg shells are fragile and are easily broken and can be placed in the disposal as well.

Never dump the remnants from a bowl of popcorn into the sink. Un-popped kernels can cause significant damage to your disposal. It can wedge itself between the blade and the surrounding walls and floor of your disposal, causing the blades to become stuck.

Non-Food items should never be placed in the garbage disposal, when in doubt please dispose of in the garbage.

Garbage Disposals have a reset button that may help if your garbage disposal becomes locked up.

Apple seeds, and other hard fruit seeds also should be banned from the disposal.

When you use your disposal make sure that you do a thorough job. Turn on your disposal and listen. When the grinding sound changes to more of a whirling noise then your disposal has most likely finished breaking down the food. After turning off the disposal, let the water run into the drain for a few moments. This way any food particles left behind can be flushed down the drain.

If the disposal should stop working, open the cabinet under the sink and locate the reset button on the disposal. If pushing the reset button does not turn the disposal back on, call the office for maintenance. Always use COLD water when using the disposal. This solidifies any grease so that it can be found up and prevents clogs in the drain. To clean the disposal, put sic ice cubes inside and turn it on. Follow this with ¼ cup baking soda. The ice cleans out all the grease and food particles and the baking soda eliminates odors.

In order to keep a clean and pest free community we ask our residents to be sure all garbage is taken out as needed and deposited directly in the dumpsters and not stored on patio areas.

Grease in or on your stove needs to be cleaned immediately to prevent a possible stove fire.

Aluminum Foil is not used to cover drips pans as it may cause the burner to short out

Dawn dishwashing liquid and tap water are great a non-toxic way to clean grease splattered areas like cabinets and oven fronts.