"Stan Brown" wrote in message
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Stan Brown wrote in
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The previous owner lived here seven years, and in an email he said he
never pumped it until right before settlement.

02 Nov 2007 03:07:18 GMT from Dan Warren
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Generally pumping out is required at the sale of a house. A big question
is do you have a garbage disposal? If so, more pumping, if not, you most
probably can go longer.

No, no garbage disposal. I'd like one, but my plumber discouraged me.
I need to find a different plumber anyway, and I'm going to get a
second opinion. Frankly, if I have to pump the tank every year
instead of every two years, it would be worth it to me. I'm only one
person, and I don't generate even one whole bag of garbage a week, so
right now the kitchen can gets pretty funky in the summer.

My house has a disposal in a little side bowl of the sink, which I never use.
(Old house and piping - why chance it) I have given thought to re-piping its
outlet to an outside compost container - something like one of those green cones
with the underground baskets. I figure the water would drain into the ground,
and the basket could be emptied into my real compost pile a few times a year.

Bob