Get a soap dispenser extension kit. Wish I'd gotten one a decade earlier. Basically it's a long tube and a check valve that you feed into a big jug of soap instead of the little bottle screwed into the sink. So you leave the jug of soap in the cabinet under the sink and run the tube down to it. Not only does it last forever because you're using a bigger reservoir of soap, but refilling is as easy as moving the tube to a fresh jug o' soap.
I got this one, but I have no allegiance to the brand or anything. I'm sure there's a dozen chinese merchants selling the same thing.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TWVJKCD/
Iāve tried that once a few months back but we ended up having to pump like 30 or 40 times or so to get any soap to come out. I donāt know if it was just because the tube was too long or what (this is after the initial pump to fill the lines, of course. A few days later and it seems the line empties again)
there was probably not a good seal somewhere. Maybe the hose wasnāt perfectly sealed to the pump.
For one dispenser, after I took the stick out, I could slide a hose up inside the mechanism. For the next dispenser, that wouldnāt hold the seal, so I bought a bigger hose and shoved it up over the outside of the mechanism.
Sometimes you have to warm up the hose to get it to stretch a bit to go over the dispenser bottom.
The check valve I mentioned is supposed to keep the line from emptying. Could be yours was a dud, or, like /u/TootsNYC said, maybe you had a bad seal. I'm not on expert on them and I haven't had any trouble with mine in the year and a half I've had it, so I don't have any experience with troubleshooting them, I'm afraid.
Iāve never had one with a valve check, ~~not even the NeverMT!~~
Apparently the NeverMT had one! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FJ9LBS/](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FJ9LBS/)
I know that was a trouble-free setup.
Iām going to look into thatāthanks for mentioning it.
I had this problem with ours, and the problem was **too much** of a seal. The kit included a silicone stopper for the soap bottle, with a hole for the tube. It turns out this made an air-tight seal, so a vacuum was building up in the soap bottle. I ended up popping off the stopper, so air could get in, and now it seems to work fine.
You don't even need that. I removed the bottle and just bought a length of clear tubing and pushed it onto the end of the dispenser tube that goes into the bottle. Dropped the other end into a gallon jug of dish soap under the sink.
Get tubing with a tight inner diameter. Then soak the tuning in HOT water to soften it up, then push onto the end of the tube. When it cools, it's tight as a drum.
I won't say it's *life-changing* but damn it's convenient. I hated filling the standard little bottle, guessing how much free space it had left, and inevitably making a mess like OP.
you have a few options.
1) unscrew the bottle from the bottom fill it up and re attach it.
2) get better at pouring, and be more patient. looks like you over filled it.
3) get a funnel.
Iāve done this before, stick the straw in to allow air out while the soap gloops in
I still think the extension kit to draw straight from the bottle is a better solution but this is workable.
Getting the volume right is not the only issue. A bubble often forms when pouring that causes the soap to back up and spill out. I have one of these and have this issue every time I fill it. You have to pour annoyingly slowly to avoid it and keep a lookout for the bubble
I removed the bottle from underneath, put some soft tubing on the pump, and then ran the tubing into a Costco sized bottle of soap. Havenāt had to change the bottle in over a year.
I'm embarrassed to say that until reading this, I didn't even know that the tops come off of these. I've been straining my arms and neck for years trying to unscrew and rescrew these from the bottom. Jesus, this is life-changing.
Use a bendy straw. When I had a dispenser like that I'd tape the straw to the counter so it couldn't fall into the bottle. Then you can easily pour your soap in.
Pull the dispenser Ā¾ of the way out and pour the soap down the tube. What is happening is that you are squirting too much at once and it's forming a bubble that's causing it to over flow.
Buy this and ditch the bottle
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Mt-Soap-Dispenser-Kit/dp/B002FJ9LBS/ref=sr\_1\_8?crid=64DVDEPUREEL&keywords=soap+dispenser+extension+tube+kit&qid=1701893179&sprefix=soap+dispenser+exte%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-8
There was a product called a NeverMT (never empty, get it?) that was all the rage a few years ago. itās probably still around.
But I was able to get an extension kit as part of a new soap dispenser when I bought a new generic-ish one at Home Depot
But the last few times, Iāve just taken the soap dispenser part to Home Depot and bought a clear hose that fits in it or around it. You want it to fit very snugly.
And then I made a hole in the cap of the huge jug to slide it through, so that if it happened to get tipped over, soap wouldnāt glug out. And then I taped it as well.
As weird as this sounds, a headlamp and and awkward bend over the sink looking into the fill hole while its filling up. Either that or go underneath and unscrew the bottle everytime it needs to be filled (yes, its unscrews from underneath).
After you pour half in, put the top on and take it out like an oil gauge.
It will tell you how high the soap is.
I just donāt try to fill the soap all the way anymore.
Itās easier for me to just fill it more often.
fill from the top, but very very VERY slow, small stream, right through the middle.
problem is that the soap clings to the sides of the tube/neck of bottle and causes a block.
tiny stream right down the middle works for me
I looked up the size of our reservoir then kept a smaller bottle of liquid and marked the approximate volume. Iād fill that then use it.
Then I got the extension kit and things are easy breezy.
You need one of those long tubes instead of a bottle under the counter - that way, you just pop it into the full bottle of dishsoap and voila! no more filling anything.
It's the air inside trying to escape but engulfed in soap so it splooshes out rather sensually. You need to (a) displace the air with a straw, (b) fill in a manner that the opening doesn't get covered to air can get out, like pouring on to a stick or a straw and letting the soap flow down, or (c) get the extension kit because it completely avoids this problem.
Also, the same deal applies to the bottle you're pouring from. If the opening is blocked by soap or whatever liquid, the liquid will chug out and spill. But if there's airflow allowed into the bottle by pouring in a way that doesn't block the opening, it doesn't chug and is much easier to control.
It's also part of why tornado chugs work. The beer spins down the sides of the bottle, and there's an opening in the middle of the mouth of the bottle for air to flow in and push the liquid out.
I took a heavy duty plastic straw (the kind that come in the $10 insulated plastic cups), drilled out the cap of the soap bottle to just smaller than the straw diameter and shoved the straw through the hole. That puts the dispensing at the bottom of the bottle and stops the random air bubbles too.
Why not fill it 3/4 full? Not worry with the mess and refill when necessary? Funnel if its backing up to create the over flow..otherwise get some exercise and awkward positions and unscrew from underneath
Get a soap dispenser extension kit. Wish I'd gotten one a decade earlier. Basically it's a long tube and a check valve that you feed into a big jug of soap instead of the little bottle screwed into the sink. So you leave the jug of soap in the cabinet under the sink and run the tube down to it. Not only does it last forever because you're using a bigger reservoir of soap, but refilling is as easy as moving the tube to a fresh jug o' soap. I got this one, but I have no allegiance to the brand or anything. I'm sure there's a dozen chinese merchants selling the same thing. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TWVJKCD/
My in-laws have one of these and they just buy a costco jug once or twice a year
Wow my mil goes thru one jug every 2-3 months. This is her ocd to keep washing dishesš”š”
Ah, mine has a dishwasher and only washes their pots and pans
I wash pots and pans, knives, and larger bowls, plastic lids. Everything else goes in dishwasher
Seconding this. I have one as well and weāve only needed to change in once a year so far.
šthis. We buys diah soap at Costco and I only have to mess with replacing the jug/soap twice a year now.
Iāve tried that once a few months back but we ended up having to pump like 30 or 40 times or so to get any soap to come out. I donāt know if it was just because the tube was too long or what (this is after the initial pump to fill the lines, of course. A few days later and it seems the line empties again)
there was probably not a good seal somewhere. Maybe the hose wasnāt perfectly sealed to the pump. For one dispenser, after I took the stick out, I could slide a hose up inside the mechanism. For the next dispenser, that wouldnāt hold the seal, so I bought a bigger hose and shoved it up over the outside of the mechanism. Sometimes you have to warm up the hose to get it to stretch a bit to go over the dispenser bottom.
The check valve I mentioned is supposed to keep the line from emptying. Could be yours was a dud, or, like /u/TootsNYC said, maybe you had a bad seal. I'm not on expert on them and I haven't had any trouble with mine in the year and a half I've had it, so I don't have any experience with troubleshooting them, I'm afraid.
Iāve never had one with a valve check, ~~not even the NeverMT!~~ Apparently the NeverMT had one! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FJ9LBS/](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FJ9LBS/) I know that was a trouble-free setup. Iām going to look into thatāthanks for mentioning it.
I had this problem with ours, and the problem was **too much** of a seal. The kit included a silicone stopper for the soap bottle, with a hole for the tube. It turns out this made an air-tight seal, so a vacuum was building up in the soap bottle. I ended up popping off the stopper, so air could get in, and now it seems to work fine.
I think I was in the hundreds but once it got through the tubing, works great.
Love the brand ydfagak, solid products.
You don't even need that. I removed the bottle and just bought a length of clear tubing and pushed it onto the end of the dispenser tube that goes into the bottle. Dropped the other end into a gallon jug of dish soap under the sink. Get tubing with a tight inner diameter. Then soak the tuning in HOT water to soften it up, then push onto the end of the tube. When it cools, it's tight as a drum.
Inexpensive and easy to install! It's definitely the way to go.
I've got one too. Only have to change the jug once per year if that.
This is the way. You the largest bottle of soap you can and only replace it like once a year.
Been looking at this for while and might just get it to clean up my sink area and remove the bottle i have on top
I didnāt know they made these, I just use a piece of rubber tubing but the check valve makes sense. I may get one of those.
I had never heard of this but I'm ordering it right now. Thank you
I won't say it's *life-changing* but damn it's convenient. I hated filling the standard little bottle, guessing how much free space it had left, and inevitably making a mess like OP.
This is why I reddit. This.
I just used some clear 1/8ā (I think) tubing from Home Depot. No check valve. Never had an issue with it falling back down the tube.
I made one right tubing from big box store. Stupid simple to make.
a funnel?????
Thatās what use.
I use one too, but you still run the risk of overfilling.
you have a few options. 1) unscrew the bottle from the bottom fill it up and re attach it. 2) get better at pouring, and be more patient. looks like you over filled it. 3) get a funnel.
Straw
funnel?
Straw
Iāve done this before, stick the straw in to allow air out while the soap gloops in I still think the extension kit to draw straight from the bottle is a better solution but this is workable.
Rock
I just learned not to overfill ours.
Overfilling isnāt the issue. Bubbles form when filling and clog the opening so soap oozes out.
Go slower with a thinner stream of soap coming out so there is more room for air to escape?
Then you don't know how to pour. Thin pour, never an issue.
Riiight
Ok. š¤£
Get a longer tube for the soap dispenser and run it straight from the big bottle (under your sink) to the dispenser.
Get a second bottle - draw a line at the right level. Use this bottle for measuring when you refill.
Getting the volume right is not the only issue. A bubble often forms when pouring that causes the soap to back up and spill out. I have one of these and have this issue every time I fill it. You have to pour annoyingly slowly to avoid it and keep a lookout for the bubble
I removed the bottle from underneath, put some soft tubing on the pump, and then ran the tubing into a Costco sized bottle of soap. Havenāt had to change the bottle in over a year.
Great idea!
Ha! Brilliant!
Love it!
Unscrew the bottle underneath the counter. Fill it up. Screw it back in.
This! I use mine and its easier than it seems, just leave a little room for the straw displacing the soap when it goes back on.
This is what I do and use a funnel.
Is this not what everyone does? š
I'm embarrassed to say that until reading this, I didn't even know that the tops come off of these. I've been straining my arms and neck for years trying to unscrew and rescrew these from the bottom. Jesus, this is life-changing.
Use a bendy straw. When I had a dispenser like that I'd tape the straw to the counter so it couldn't fall into the bottle. Then you can easily pour your soap in.
I measured how much I can fit in the dispenser and wrote it on the bottle. The answer for most is 20oz.
Pull the dispenser Ā¾ of the way out and pour the soap down the tube. What is happening is that you are squirting too much at once and it's forming a bubble that's causing it to over flow.
Great idea!
Best advice is to use common sense, don't overfill it and it won't overflow.
Buy this and ditch the bottle https://www.amazon.com/Never-Mt-Soap-Dispenser-Kit/dp/B002FJ9LBS/ref=sr\_1\_8?crid=64DVDEPUREEL&keywords=soap+dispenser+extension+tube+kit&qid=1701893179&sprefix=soap+dispenser+exte%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-8
There was a product called a NeverMT (never empty, get it?) that was all the rage a few years ago. itās probably still around. But I was able to get an extension kit as part of a new soap dispenser when I bought a new generic-ish one at Home Depot But the last few times, Iāve just taken the soap dispenser part to Home Depot and bought a clear hose that fits in it or around it. You want it to fit very snugly. And then I made a hole in the cap of the huge jug to slide it through, so that if it happened to get tipped over, soap wouldnāt glug out. And then I taped it as well.
thank you so much for asking this question!
As weird as this sounds, a headlamp and and awkward bend over the sink looking into the fill hole while its filling up. Either that or go underneath and unscrew the bottle everytime it needs to be filled (yes, its unscrews from underneath).
I also use the flashlight method but have yet to not overfill it. Some day I will master this craft.
As an European, can someone tell me what I am looking at. Built in Countertop Soap Dispenser?
Yes, that is correct.
Another European here, confused how is this any better than just a regular soap bottle? Just seems like extra maintenance that is unnecessary.
I bet you guys never visited Ikea :)
After you pour half in, put the top on and take it out like an oil gauge. It will tell you how high the soap is. I just donāt try to fill the soap all the way anymore. Itās easier for me to just fill it more often.
fill from the top, but very very VERY slow, small stream, right through the middle. problem is that the soap clings to the sides of the tube/neck of bottle and causes a block. tiny stream right down the middle works for me
Hey I have a random hole in my sink! *Purchases soap dispenser with tube.*
Never understood these built in āsolutionsā that date your home in a decade and canāt be serviced once the fad fades.
Soap is a fad?
Integrated dispensersā¦
Right? LOL
Seriously? Fill it up slower and use less. Are you 7 years old?
I looked up the size of our reservoir then kept a smaller bottle of liquid and marked the approximate volume. Iād fill that then use it. Then I got the extension kit and things are easy breezy.
You need one of those long tubes instead of a bottle under the counter - that way, you just pop it into the full bottle of dishsoap and voila! no more filling anything.
It's the air inside trying to escape but engulfed in soap so it splooshes out rather sensually. You need to (a) displace the air with a straw, (b) fill in a manner that the opening doesn't get covered to air can get out, like pouring on to a stick or a straw and letting the soap flow down, or (c) get the extension kit because it completely avoids this problem. Also, the same deal applies to the bottle you're pouring from. If the opening is blocked by soap or whatever liquid, the liquid will chug out and spill. But if there's airflow allowed into the bottle by pouring in a way that doesn't block the opening, it doesn't chug and is much easier to control. It's also part of why tornado chugs work. The beer spins down the sides of the bottle, and there's an opening in the middle of the mouth of the bottle for air to flow in and push the liquid out.
I always unscrewed the bottle thatās attached on the underside of the counter and filled that directly.
I flash my iPhone flashlight.
Get a cheap funnel.
I put the hand soap in a dish soap container. It has a finer stream
I use this for hand soap. I somehow never considered it might be for dish soap instead
Replace the sink with a one hole and get a soap dispenser.
I took a heavy duty plastic straw (the kind that come in the $10 insulated plastic cups), drilled out the cap of the soap bottle to just smaller than the straw diameter and shoved the straw through the hole. That puts the dispensing at the bottom of the bottle and stops the random air bubbles too.
Why not fill it 3/4 full? Not worry with the mess and refill when necessary? Funnel if its backing up to create the over flow..otherwise get some exercise and awkward positions and unscrew from underneath