I am thinking about next year's upgrades and question whether adding a trash compactor would be worthwhile. I have to ferry all of our garbage from our houseboat using a ski boat and can pretty well fill a ski boat with garbage bags after a large family trip.
From those of you with compactor experience, are they worth the cost and effort? If a usual trip gives us ten or twelve bags of regular garbage, how many bags of compacted garbage do you think we would have? I also wonder if the compacted bags get "drippy" or otherwise hard to handle as you smash semi-wet things like paper plates with food left on them. I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone has.
I love mine. On our previous two houseboats, we too lugged
trash bags to the shore, not by boat however. When out at the
beach for a weekend, the back deck became the place to put them.
Now that I have a trash compactor I can't imagine living
without it. I purchase my bags at Sears. They offer two
style of bags, plastic or paper with a protective coating. I
have used both and have no problem with leakage. The best
thing about having a compactor is when we walk off the the dock on
Sunday we carry one bag of trash with us. I honestly don't
recall using more than one bag for a three or four day stay at the
lake with two to five people on the boat. It's well worth the
investment and I highly recommend it.
Yes the compactor is worth it. I would never be with out one. If it broke tomorrow I would replace it immediately . Look on Ebay & Craigslist you can sometimes find one cheap. I bought a used one and used a can of spray paint to change the color of the door to match the cabinetry.
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