HydroMaid

Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

We have a job coming up where the owners wants a HydroMaid garbage disposal installed. It doesn't use electricity.

"The HydroMaid is the first garbage disposal to harness the power of water to dispose of kitchen waste."

Sounds pretty cool and very green. Has anybody used one?

http://www.hydromaid.com/pro1.html

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lchmb

look's neat..only question I have is how much water pressure does it take to run? I have a shallow well and wonder if I would have enough pressure..let us know if you use one..

Mike Kraft_2

Hey Alan.............

Lemme know how it is please.Interesting.........very interesting.

cheese

Kal Row

id be too scared to install a non-batch unit

with the batch - you have that magnetic safety switch on the drain cover and know that a child cant put a hand in while it's on

now if we could rig the water flow switch to a drain cover assembly - then you are talking

the water turbine could have a centrifugal spring device that opens an iris to it when it comes up to speed

and then you also dont need another hole – a real help with a cast sink or granite counter

Mark Eatherton1

Interesting, however...

they'd be illegal anywhere in the reach of the Denver Water system. It's illegal to have any water powered equipment on their system. Not sure how they'd police it, but in these times of drought, it would not be a wise idea...

ME

Tom Simensen

Hydromaid

Hi Alan,

I installed a couple of these in a house about three years ago. They seemed to be well built and very unique, but the owner had me replace them with a couple ISE 77 disposals in less than a year. He evidently expected more out of them after seeing their promotional video that showed them eating up glass bottles and such.

Maybe they have improved in the last couple years. Give them a try. I thought it was a great idea, and it did insure that there was enough water run to get rid of the solids. Tom

Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

Nice to hear

from someone that's used them. Thanks, Tom.

Were there more specific reasons why the owner had them removed? i.e. couldn't handle the solids well, noisy, used too much water (good point ME).

Best wishes,

Alan

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Mike T., Swampeast MO

Water Power

Effectiveness aside, this thing would seem to be a VERY "grey area" in any such prohibiting law. Instructions for every food waste disposer I've seen tell you to run cold water full-blast while unit is running and even continue a while after you turn it off.

This thing appears to be using the same water both for power and flushing away the waste with a claim of "similar" water consumption compared to an electric unit.

That being the case, if this weren't allowed in the Denver water system, you could reply that pop-up and oscillating irrigation devices and systems are "water powered" as well.

Couldn't an evaporative cooling unit be considered "water powered"?

Tom Simensen

The HO claimed they would frequently plug up. I didn't get to actually see them in actual use under real working conditions, but just to see them run after installation was quite impressive. They were very quiet operating.

Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

Thanks, Tom

So soft cooked vegetables are OK.

Keep the lemons, egg shells and chicken bones out.

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Tom Simensen

celery

And for sure no celery. But their demo video actually showed it chewing up a beer bottle. Tom