I have always had a disposal, other than that one year in college when I was in a very old building. No septic tanks around here. I’ve also always had an air gap. It was on one of these forums somewhere along the way that I found out ours could be removed so I did that some years ago. Still had the hole in the granite so I added a soap dispense. I love having the soap right there–just push down and my sponge is ready to go. Interesting that I love a clean, bare counter but somehow don’t mind the holes in the granite.
CB, congrats on the inspection results! Hopefully Thursday’s will go equally as smoothly. You certainly deserve it! And it’s nice to hear that things are progressing with the buyer’s documents, etc.
“Avoided a potential $5000 hit to tent and fumigate the house and deck” - FANTASTIC!
We almost always avoid our disposer. The design is nonideal (not enough slant to the drain pipe from back of house across the basement). That’s fine with me. I use one of the wire mesh strainers and empty as needed… Once in a while I clean it in the dishwasher. Sooo much better than paying $100 and losing a half day of work to have the Mr Rooter come by. But my poor Dad - I made quite a fuss when he was gonna put two grapefruit halves down it.
2 D/W is a kosher thing if you also see 2 ovens and 2 stove tops. Maybe also 2 fridges. Otherwise, most new developments here put 2 D/W in - for convenience.
Our kitchen isn’t kosher. I’m not really sure how I ended up with two dishwashers. My H is a builder and when the kitchen plans came in they had 2 dishwashers. One in the island and 1 next to the sink. I don’t need two but if he didn’t mind buying two I wasn’t going to stop him. I love it since my most dreaded chore is emptying the dishwasher. I love not having to empty the clean one to put the dirty dishes in.
Cheers to not having to tent for termites.
My sister loves having her 2 dishwashers–she keeps clean dishes in one and dirty dishes in the other and rarely has to empty her dishwasher. It also comes in handy for her when one dishwasher breaks. We are fine with just one dishwasher and only run it about once/week when it’s just the two of us. Personally, I prefer having more cupboard space, as does H. H is the person in charge of all the dishwashing in our house–a chore he’s had the entire time we’ve been married. I cook, he washes. Yeah!
We have two dishwashers (actually dish drawers). We got them to settle an ongoing argument. H hates dirty dishes and wanted to run the dishwasher every night, whether it was full or not. I hate running half full dishwashers, I don’t like wasting energy. So, with two smaller dishwashers, we were both happy.
Today we are finally replacing the plain fixed window in dining room that had the crack. Replacement has been sitting in the closet for over a month. Noone ever noticed the cracked window through all the showings and Open House:)
Surface french drain is done. Took forever to wait for rain to stop but we got it closed up in the nick of time for next 2 days of rain.
Also running wire in crawl space to connect sprinkler timer controls and fixing all the sprinkler heads to cover the landscape properly.
The other day we realized that the weather strip on big patio door in master is deteriorating so I just spent hours driving around trying to find something that will work. My carpenter is going to have to Macgiver a garage door seal
I learned something new today (now that I am in the big leagues). I was sitting in the living room (goofing off… should have been in basement labeling paint cans) and a man just came into the yard and starting measuring everything. He said he was from Fidelity Title Company for the buyer’s title insurance. I had never seen them send someone out before and I couldn’t figure out why he was there. So I called them and it turns out that every transaction over $1.5 million they require a visit by their field guy. I guess so someone doesn’t try to get title insurance for a vacant lot or something? That is why I’ve never had this happen before
When I had a dumbwaiter, my biggest worry was that a kid would somehow be able to open the door when the compartment was not there and fall into the shaft. The doors had a locking mechanism that was supposed to prevent the door from being opened when the compartment wasn’t on that level but it wasn’t always reliable. We finally installed padlocks on the doors so they could only be opened with a key so kids couldn’t play with it.
I lived in that house for twenty years; the dumbwaiter broke down so often in the first six months that we finally just gave up on it and didn’t use it at all.
Yes, the hole is there so that someone can stick a finger in and unlatch the door. It’s supposed to be a last ditch if the dumbwaiter is stuck somewhere and the doors won’t open at all. We have not tested the dumbwaiter daily with loads but so far, except when we got some of the wires pulled during construction, it works OK. The doors will not open if any one of the doors are not latched properly. And, the door won’t open unless the box is at that floor.
The manufacturer does not provide installation, so there is no actual warranty on the dumbwaiter except for parts. However, the one time we could not figure out what was wrong they got 2 guys on the phone to talk through the issue with my guy and they knew what was wrong immediately. But, it takes someone with some electrical skills to fix it… probably not a homeowner. The part I’m worried about is that there really is not one person to call to fix it. I’ve disclosed that to the homeowners.
We are all ready for inspection. Took another load - THE FINAL LOAD - trash to the dump.
I will let you all know how the inspection went, although I’m not clear on whether I am going to be there or not. Usually I come at the end to hear the results directly from the inspector because it helps to see what he is talking about, rather than trying to decipher written words in a report.
I would think you wouldn’t want to be there. He’d make comments and you’d get defensive. Why not have him leave (or provide) the written report and you follow up with questions if necessary?
Regarding being there during inspection: all that really matters is anything the bidder chooses to ask you to fix before closing. I’d say it is better not to be there.
I don’t like to be there. But inevitably there are questions about this or that or how do we operate X? I end up getting a lot of phone calls through a game of telephone. Usually the buyer’s agent accompanies during the inspection. Then she’ll call my agent and then my agent will call me and by the time my agent calls me I cannot understand what they are asking about. Plus we are in a bad situation because my agent will be traveling tomorrow and she is probably going to have to give out my direct phone nbr, which I don’t like. Don’t want phone calls from the agent after we close. Prefer to have everything go through my agent (that is what she is getting paid for)
For some crazy reason my agent usually asks me to come at the very end of the inspection… in case there are questions. That always ends up with me volunteering to fix everything they mention
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