I’m so happy for you! It must have been awful!
One of our lovely contractor’s lovely workmen is sposed to come over tomorrow.
The disposal croaked more than 2 yrs ago. For reasons known only to my BF, he didn’t have it fixed, and just kept cleaning his French press into the kitchen sink instead. It’s so badly plogged, the bathroom sink upstairs has been draining very very slowly.
Um. Like all the coffee grinds? Or just the ones left after trashing/composting the majority? 
That sounds like a disaster! Had to have a talk with my spouse about putting veg scraps in the disposal. If it can be trashed/composted, it should be. Disposal isn’t really a disposal. More a chopper for the unavoidable food fragments from dishwashing.
We do a big batch of cold brew about once a week. I insist those grinds go out onto the yard (under the oak trees) and under the rose bushes. They seem to break down pretty quickly under the sun. Or there are a lot of squirrels addicted to caffeine.
He gets most of the grounds into the trash, but not enough; maybe I can convince him to also wipe out the press from now on.
I admit to being a little remiss myself, but I’ve never once seen him clean the sink strainer.
Worms love coffee grounds…
Hmmm. We do tend to allow the residual grinds flow down. But always with a lot of water, usually hot and soapy.
I hope our sink doesn’t clog! That sounds like a huge hassle.
I did not know that. The more worms the merrier. Our clay soil can use all the earthworms it can get
You might think, but I’ve heard pretty much the opposite. I started putting used coffee and loose tea at the base of tomato plant cuz I’ve heard squirrels hate it (either the smell or the way it feels to step on that, maybe both). Seems to work, since my unharrassed crop became much larger.
Hmmm. Alright, next spring the peppers are getting this treatment. Maybe the bunnies will leave them alone!
I replaced our disposal a few years ago, and the replacement one wound up slowly crapping out too. It also clogs more often than it should so we keep a sink plunger on standby. I decided I’m going to remove it entirely one of these days and just have a normal sink on both sides. The trick will be getting the pipe lengths right I guess… or hire a plumber.
I think garbage disposals are more trouble than they’re worth. They’re ok for the occasional chunky food thing that makes it down there, being able to blend it up is handy. But i don’t run mine a lot, so i’m often having to deal with it getting stuck with gunk and not wanting to run (easily fixed if you get it going with an allen key but annoying), constantly having to worry if there’s any utensils in there before someone runs it, it getting stinky, etc.
The list of annoyances is longer than its usefulness. I would rather throw a mesh over the sink drain and have no disposal tbh.
precisely what i did when we built our new place here. no regrets (though, i really dislike emptying those mesh thingies).
have had nothing but trouble from every dispos-all i ever had.
Same. Same. They get real gross real fast, but i would prefer a low tech solution over a garbage disposal.
Yeah, we went with the mesh thingies too.
Mom & I’d never had trouble with our disposals except when V young me did something stupid, and when they’ve been dying or had died (after decades of use).
Trying to function in the kitchen w/o one has always been much more troublesome for my BF and me.
While I share your worry, I’ve yet to see uncontrolled growth as a side effect of caffeine consumption?
Well, the guy was here for FIVE HOURS fixing our stuff. The new disposal’s installation wasn’t a problem, but he had to leave to go buy/get stuff 3 or 4 different times. Our next door neighbor called to ask whether we were having a party XD
There was a massive block in a basement pipe - it runs down from the sink and makes a 90° turn at the basement stairs, and that’s where the plog was. He had to saw the pipe in twain to get at the plog, and a mudslide happened once he got it apart. @_@ It obvs wasn’t just us who’d caused that problem, but the missing disposal didn’t help.
He suggested we dump drano down our sinks 3-4X/year to keep our pipes clear. Sounds like a potential Solstice/Equinox ritual to me.
He also had to snake the bathroom sink.
Haven’t yet put the stuff back under the kitchen sink, the sink neeeds cleaning, and there are a zillion dishes awaiting my attention, but I’ll start on all that tomorrow.
We have functional sinks and drainage!!!
Now we’re broke until the 2nd.
Congrats, sounds like it was a mighty disruptive mess!
It was awful - and so was getting it fixed! I apologized to the workman - “I’m so sorry! Every time you come over, it’s such a big pain in the ass!” and I meant it. He just laughed.
He also helped my BF D carry in the free bathroom sink/vanity from off the porch - they put it in the smol roomlet what should become a place to take off coats and boots right by the front door. He smiled at it, petted it, and said he looked fwd to installing it for us. He really likes it, and so does our friend Ms V. The wood and marble are so nice.
Cleaned up the sink last night. Swiffer’d the kitchen floor a few times, esp near the basement door & sink, and even Swiffer’d the squishy kitchen mat by the sink 3x - it got dripped on a lot. The floofy rug in the kitchen and the two runners in the hall (all synthetic) also got a heavy duty alcohol spritzing. Got a few dishes done. Plenty more awaits - and I wonder if the big plunger will fit under the sink…
Have you considered dubbing that “the mud room”?
