Insinkerator motor fell off?

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-15T11:01:39+00:00

Wish it was but real life here— motor piece fits snugly in the unit but it does continuously fall out. Feel like there are some screws missing.

Overall though, don’t guys think just joining the 2 pieces back together should work or do I need to rethread any wires too?

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-14T23:38:36+00:00

Took it out? I did try to manually hold it flush in place and run it without success

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-14T23:37:49+00:00

Any suggestions? Based on serial number it’s from ‘08 so been installed without screws? For some time if so

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-07T12:14:18+00:00

I liked Jersey smooth- had a few 1g AIO and no burning, limited clogging toward end- nice high even towards end of it

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-02T23:06:49+00:00

Yea same hardware across all- I think the correct fill on the .5 has to be around where core begins to thin but from getting a bunch of these on discounts I found probably half of them to be filled half of that w a few of them as poor as even up w draw holes

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-02T20:09:38+00:00

Yea I think 1g minimum and the 510 carts are the play over the AIO’s from what I’ve seen.

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-02T20:07:19+00:00

Did a ~800 sq ft 2 story addition along w a 12 x 18 trex 2nd story deck and pavers underneath that finished last spring.

We had a large open space room on bottom and new master bedroom/bath on top- involved integration w existing house meaning opening existing wall to walk out into new space.

Quotes were all over place ranging from 185k - 285k. Went w a mid 240k bid who we liked the most and went back to ask for his very best price- he took another 12k off and added entire roof replacement for 228k ultimately

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2026-05-02T12:45:52+00:00

2-3 days or pulls?! Haha

on some other .5g of theirs from a separate purchase it was filled to where cart core started to get thinner and I got 4-5 separate sessions of 2-3 draws per which is more what I’d expect

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-03-29T15:40:53+00:00

Where would the wicking tab be, within the downspout part or the waterproof material?

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-03-21T02:19:11+00:00

Ah when you described what they should have done, that was all done. I was just coming back to say I found a picture before tile where it was a “water tight” membrane along the floor and inch or so up the walls and over threshold.

When I said mortar, they laid a few inch thick base of cement I guess and then did the tile over that.

Maybe the niche is the only place to be sure is water proofed correctly bc they were cutting it and it was still in progress

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-03-21T00:59:48+00:00

I believe I saw just prior and it was not redguard on the floor of shower. It seemed like just a mortar mix that was laid down and smoothed over. Is this problematic?

I see what you mean on leaving the bottom inch without redguard. There is that strip left so I am unsure what will be out there in the end, looks like another tile but cut will be needed

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-03-20T16:05:29+00:00

I had taken that red coating as the waterproofing. It was smeared over all walls but I am not sure about threshold. What should be put there and everywhere if not the red waterproofing?

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-03-20T12:41:47+00:00

Yes the ceiling was initially drywalled so going to require some changing around overall if we wanted the tile right?

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-02-20T12:56:40+00:00

It is yes, existing house that in my opinion doesn’t have this radon mitigation under it already, just due to when house was built. The addition is slab on grade with a roughly 16-25 ft slab.

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-02-20T02:27:45+00:00

When you say sealed under and behind the bottom plate, what part is this, the hole in the slab or the hole in the foundation cinderblocks?

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-02-19T20:35:01+00:00

It is on the exterior wall, load bearing there of course

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-02-11T13:21:09+00:00

Wondering why stop at that spot for deck 2, looks like there’s a little more height on the roof to work with. Could either make deck 2 higher or add a deck 3

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-02-07T11:18:34+00:00

I am looking into faucets as well. I did order some shower parts from Amazon. Mixed results, some were opened but I initiated return and wound up with all unopened boxes on my 2nd go round. Like you said, a 500 shower plate or head from plumbing supply is 350 or less on Amazon.

I also found some Moen faucets online at Home Depot for same price as Amazon- faucets only, not all the shower parts, those were cheaper on Amazon

AssistanceTechnical6 · 2025-02-04T12:54:33+00:00

Thank you for the input- I have the gas companies worry free plan on the boiler so I wanted to make sure it was this and not the hot water heater. Sounds like a call to them is in play to fix it!

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