garbage disposal won’t work Home › Forums › Public Forums › General Plumbing › garbage disposal won’t work This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 24 years, 3 months ago by hj. Viewing 1 reply thread Author Posts 9 May 2000 at 12:34 am #272930 Anonymous Our garbage disposal doesn’t turn on at all and when running the diswasher it backs up into the sink. I tried to press the reset buttton but water started to leak from it. Any suggestions? 9 May 2000 at 4:02 am #286566 hjParticipant As soon as you said, “water started to leak from it”, you said the magic words. Replace the disposer and all the problems will be solved. Author Posts Viewing 1 reply thread You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In