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Clean and Prepare Disposal Flange

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How to install a faucet and reinstall garbage disposal for countertop replacement

What happens here

With the disposal flange now removed, it's essential to clean off all remnants of old plumber's putty and any other debris. The presenter demonstrates using a paper towel and a finger to scrape away the old putty, noting that sometimes a screwdriver might be needed for stubborn residue. Once clean, take a small amount of fresh plumber's putty, roughly the size of a large bouncy ball, and roll it between your hands to form a 'snake' or 'pizza crust' shape. This putty snake is then wrapped around the underside lip of the disposal flange, ensuring even coverage. The presenter advises to work the putty in gently and evenly around the entire circumference of the flange.

Goal: The salvaged disposal flange is cleaned of old plumber's putty and new putty is applied, prepared for installation in the new sink.

Tools and materials

  • Paper Towel
  • Plumber's Putty Sta Put

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get all that nasty off of there now that we have the disposal ring all hooked up we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna put the disposal ring on okay well there's no really good place to put any camera equipment around here i am not used to any of this either but we are making some stuff happen um first thing we're going to do is we're actually going to take this disposal ring and we're going to put some plumber's putty on it so we're going to grab this you want a good little chunk probably about the size of a ball in the palm of your hand just a little ball um i don't know like one of those extra like one of those extra large bouncy balls you used to get in one of those red machines as a kid like that you only had for a couple minutes because you got out to the parking lot and freaking bounce it so hard that it left um about that size that's what we're looking for um and we'll just take that and act like i'm hanging out with my toddler and rolling out some play-doh and just kind of make a snake you want it to be um a little bit skinnier than your pinky i mean i guess if you have small pinkies it i don't know one of the fat pencil from school right like something that size and you just go around the whole thing and then i usually you go around it usually have a little bit of something there left and i just pop that off and throw her back in and just kind of go around and work it work it in the whole way just kind of make sure it stays around the whole thing and it's kind of like pounding out pizza dough or something you know you just make it a crust let's call it make it a crust like just hooking up pizza crust so you get around there and i'm not good at making pies so let's call pizza get all that hooked up and then we stick it through the top of the sink

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