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About SinkGrind
Who publishes this, and why every town page carries how the place is built.
The quick answer
Whether a disposal is yours to fix or your landlord’s is the question this subject keeps returning to, and it is why the town pages carry tenure. SinkGrind is NXTA Flow’s, repairs nothing, sells no units, and takes its grease and drain-care material from EPA.
Source: US EPA, How to Care for Your Septic System.
A site about one appliance
SinkGrind is about garbage disposals and nothing else. It connects homeowners with independent contractors who repair and replace them. There is no van with our name on it, no warehouse, and no unit we would sell you.
The narrowness is the point. A disposal has four common faults and two of them do not need anybody called out at all, which is a thing a site that also sold you the machine would be reluctant to say.
What pays for it
Contractors pay us when a call reaches them. Nothing is ever charged to a homeowner, and we neither set nor see what you are quoted.
That arrangement pushes in an obvious direction, so the counterweight is on the page: the reset button is free to press, a jam is usually a hex key, and a smell is cleaning rather than a fault.
The two sources behind every page
The housing mix that decides whose appliance it is comes from Census table B25024. The guidance on what belongs down a drain comes from EPA. Both are named and linked on the page that uses them, so nothing here rests on our say-so.
On credentials
Every contractor in the network is required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. We do not vouch for any individual one, and the state pages tell you who issues the license and where to check it yourself.
Pushed the reset button already?Then it is worth a contractor rather than another ten minutes with a hex key. Tell us what it is doing — silent, humming, leaking or smelling — and we will route you. Free to you, always. Disposals are one job; we take the others.
Call (866) 871-5070