I just hate anything that needs an extra hole in the countertop with caulking around it and therefore has the potential to collect crud: soap dispensers, air gaps, pullout brushes that are not part of the faucet, etc. As they call that stuff on Gardenweb, sink bling. 
2 holes in my countertop: one for the sink and one for the faucet. Or better yet, an integrated sink and one hole for the faucet.
Huh. Thanks, BB. I’ve never had that problem with my soap dispensers.
Termite cleared with flying colors. He was very impressed that every part of the decks were built with pressure treated wood. He says he rarely sees anyone spending that money
Avoided a potential $5000 hit to tent and fumigate the house and deck
I’m from septic system country also. Hence, few disposals and no air gaps.
For quite a while, now, more and more people have been composting their vegetable waste, coffee grounds, eggshells, etc.
Composting is common here as well.
I wouldn’t use the garbage disposal to dispose of a whole vegetable’s worth of peelings, or egg shells, or anything like that; we just use it for stray bits of stuff that gets in the sink.
Congrats on passing the termite inspection with flying colors, cb. I know you were nervous that the fellow was going to make you tent the whole house.
Anything scheduled for tomorrow or Wednesday, or is the inspection on Thursday the next big hurdle?
Next big hurdle is home inspection on Thursday. I did learn something interesting from termite guy. The old 1990 posts holding up the older part of living room deck are set into concrete but there’s 3 to 6 inches of dirt up the posts. I asked him if dirt against the wood posts are going to be a problem and he said “not if its pressure treated wood”. I can guarantee that the home inspector will write that up.
Oh, that’s what the thing is called the is connected to the dishwasher, an air gap. We have one but I never knew the name before. We have no garbage disposal and haven’t really missed it. Didn’t have one in our apartments and when we bought our house it didn’t have one installed and we never bothered to add one. As I recall, we just had a lot of problems with the one in my mom’s house and H’s mom never had one so he didn’t see why they were needed.
We are concentrating trying to clear out the basement. How did we accumulate so much!%%:*&#= stuff???
Today my agent and I cleared the house of all our personal staging stuff. Her car was crammed and my truck has made two runs already to my garage. Everything from basement has moved out to the garage but its going to take a lot of runs to get rid of it
Buyer’s lender is a great communicator. Appraisal report has not been turned in yet but he informed us that all of the buyer’s docs are through pre review and ready to be submitted yo underwriting which is excellent progress. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t have full approval by next Monday.
In my area (eastern MA) you are well-advised to treat your septic system (I have one) as gently as possible. If it fails you can be looking at $25K-$50K to replace it.
A while back they changed a lot of the rules about how close to streams and wetlands your system could be. I know people whose systems have failed and were forced to move it to the other side of their house because they could no longer put it where the old one was (or near it). It’s hugely expensive to have to do that. If you don’t have the land for that you are in a world of hurt - there are houses on a small lake in my town that no longer have the required land or setbacks for a leach field, they are now required to put in holding tanks and get them pumped out when they fill. And it doesn’t take long to generate a couple thousand gallons of waste water.
So no garbage disposal for us. And we are very careful because our system is over 50 years old. No food goes down the drain, no cleaning paint brushes in the sink, we don’t do 10 loads of laundry a week, etc.
I always thought it was kind of nasty to grind up egg shells, chicken bones, vegetable scraps, etc, and have it go into the wastewater disposal system if you are on sewers. That stuff all has to get filtered out and disposed of, why burden a water purification system when you can just toss it out?
Exactly, NRE. We have lived without one for 17 years (our first house had one, but I never used it either). If our next house will come with a garbagr diaposal, we will get rid of it and will use the circuit for something more practical.
I forgot to mention - when you sell a house, your septic system gets inspected by the state (a so-called Title 5 inspection). If it fails that inspection, you have to fix it within a certain time-frame.
You can imagine what an unpleasant surprise it is to try to sell your house only to find out that the system you’ve used for years without trouble is considered “failed”, and must be fixed to the tune of $25K+. It has killed many a deal where the seller and buyer can’t come to an agreement over who pays or decide on a price adjustment. You can’t get a mortgage unless it’s been upgraded or money put into escrow for the repairs.
And some kind of septic systems are an automatic fail - there are still older houses with cesspool-type systems or without proper leach fields that have to be upgraded before you can sell.
Expanding your house can trigger an inspection as well.
“I forgot to mention - when you sell a house, your septic system gets inspected by the state (a so-called Title 5 inspection). If it fails that inspection, you have to fix it within a certain time-frame.”
Things probably vary by state. Here, every county has its own requirements. Ours requires monitoring (to the tune of $200-300) every 3 years if there is no disposal. Folks with a disposal need to do it annually. Pumping and certification by a licensed monitoring co is required by most buyers…
Still, all this septic stuff (that might sound like trouble) is worth the huge savings on the sewer bill - 2X the water bill. Not counting a special assessment to get connected to the sewer.
I have a garbage disposal and I am on septic. I don’t baby my septic system but I also don’t put a lot of junk down my disposal. I have lived with both a disposal and without. I hate washing dishes at my D’s who doesn’t have a disposal. A disposal is a must have for me. I have a soap dispenser and I don’t use it. My favorite whole on my sink is my instant hot water. I also have air gaps on both my dishwashers and I don’t even notice them.
I’m not worthy. ^:)^ 
I think I would love 2 dishwashers, one for clean and one for dirty. Does that really work out?
So you never actually have to put the dishes away? Just take out clean dishes from one, use, and put in the other. Then when the clean one is empty and the dirty one is full, run the full one, then start over. I like it, and you don’t have to mess up your pretty glass fronted cabinets with a stack of plates or anything.
Or maybe one’s milchig and one’s fleishig.
I see a lot of vacation rentals in Palm Springs with 2 dishwashers. At first I thought it was a Kosher thing. But maybe they accommodate a fast turnaround between rentals??
I don’t get the big thing about having a disposal if all you leave for it to deal with is the tiny bits of stuff that end up in the drainer after scraping and washing dishes. You pick up the drainer thingie, bang the contents out in the garbage can, and you’re done.