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20 year old unused dishwasher?
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Hope your new floors are waterproof....
Thanks for the flowers. There is a plan to replace the DW, but just need the old one to fill the space for getting tops done. If it cleans up good, it’s a very basic model, meaning very dependable model, which I see no particular reason to replace. Never mind it hasn’t been used (or even powered up) for at least 17 years. The missus agreed, every kid came with a pair of dishwashers that worked perfectly to clean the plates they ate on. I’ve got so much stuff stored now for the future brew kitchen, I kinda like the idea flushing the old one out a bit and using the boiling hot effluent to melt a bit of buildup in the drain pipe while I select it’s replacement. We have very hard water, so usually just hand wash and dry the dishes to avoid inevitable water spots from a dishwasher. A hot water heater only lasts about 2 years before the bottom element blows due to calcium buildup in the tank. Glasses are NOT pretty when run through the DW. All the underlings in my home have hated me for disabling the DW some 20 years ago. I always figured they needed something to get them off social media for a few minutes. They disagreed, but I pay the bills and have complete control of the password on the router. Amazing how much power one little password has.
They are, exactly that. No engineered wood crap. Solid vinyl, “life proof”. I dropped a 2 pound nail bar on some I already installed and didn’t leave a mark. I’m not easily impressed, but this flooring has me pleased. So much so, I’ll be pulling out carpet I installed in 2008 to replace with the LVT.
I grew up in a home without a dishwashing machine, and being the youngest of 4 children - well guess the skill in which I am proficient. My widowed dad still lives in that house, and yes he is the dishwasher. Here in our Eugene home, there is a perfectly functional dishwashing machine, and it gets regular use about once a week. As has been my custom, I hand wash all glass and pots and pans.
I find them wasteful and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one get dishes CLEAN. I won’t say they aren’t sanitized because that enormous immersion heater is in there for a reason. Like you, I grew up without a lot of modcons. We got a window unit for the kitchen when I was a sophomore or maybe junior in high school. My folks finally got a phone about 3 years after I went to college, and ’city water’a couple years after that. We got 3 channels on TV on a good night (no clouds or rain), and I was the antenna rotor/kindling rustler/fire wood toter/grass cutter/chicken feeder/dog feeder etc, etc, etc. I did have the luxury of two older sisters and too many outside chores to have time for washing dishes. I do them more than my 15 year old granddaughter that lives with us, now. Easier than fighting with her about it, though I know it’s an injustice to her to not reinforce life skills.
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I've never owned a dish washer.
Like Herm describes: me and my brother were the designated dishwashers.
I think one of the reasons I became quite a decent cook is that the cook didn't need to do the dishes
Like Herm describes: me and my brother were the designated dishwashers.
I think one of the reasons I became quite a decent cook is that the cook didn't need to do the dishes
One just has to feel sorry that she'll lose this opportunity to learn how, say, to scrub a floor properly. Surely she'll survive, but many valuable skills are learned like that. I mean, they don't teach how to do that stuff at school.
Precisely my point. It WAS taught when I went to school.
Forgot to mention the DW will be fully tested sitting out on the deck before I trust it on new flooring in a kitchen where I just spent 3 weeks patching drywall. My mama didn’t raise no dummy. Just gotta make sure it drains in the gravel and doesn’t parboil any of the missus’ plants or what little grass is left.
It has a lot of overspray from years of exterminators with worse aim than a potty training 3 year old boy. Hopefully the stainless will clean up and the painted bits aren’t too bad. Door gasket seems to still be soft. It ran a few seconds a couple weeks ago when I was verifying nothing else was on the circuit with it, so I know the motor is good. No water in it, but that’s an easy thing to test as well. Need to make sure the solenoid valve isn’t leaking/bypassing.
Learned something about dishwasher plumbing today during op checks on the old one. Anoles love dripping connectors (collets on old copper line are corroded a bit). Two came up to have a drink where my temporary supply was connected. Must be dry. But that’s not really the plumbing lesson. Apparently, they don’t have a valve for the discharge and depend on an elevated connection at the sink drain to fill up. Heard the water running, then noticed it pouring out the drain line and could hear the pump cavitating. So I put the end of the drain line above the fill level of the washer, and voila! It filled and stopped cavitating. The only leaks are from old plumbing connectors which I can easily remedy. Just gotta get a compression Tee added to the hot water line on the sink and a hole cut in the cabinet for fill and drain lines.
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the issue I've had with some dishwashers was actually the pump, also a vacuum issue, had to create a ptrap with the drain line and make sure the sink isnt stopped so it could vent
Pink Stuff is good. Myer’s All Day works well too. Then go back over it with some stainless steel wipes. Looks mucho bueno.
Double sink solves part of that problem. Pump works perfectly. Perhaps a little too well. Also learned that on of the permissives for the clock motor to run is that the water temperature is at least 140F. And that more modern detergent doesn’t work well in a washer with a strong pump and hot water. It foamed up very badly and puked foam out the front of the washer. Figured it was going to happen when it went silent on the main wash cycle (when the pod dropped). No seal across the bottom of the reservoir in front so once it got foamy, it puked. I think it’ll be ok with low suds detergent.
Countertop folks coming tomorrow for measurements. Got the butcher block section cut and sanded today, and the missus put the oil on it this evening. Fixed my feaux pas with the wiring on the west wall (found the ONLY place to hit the wire with a screw). So, all in all it’s just another patch in the wall. Can’t put the two cabinets back permanently until the joint compound is finished (sand, another coat, sand again).
Meanwhile, can’t get much done tomorrow because I have a CT scan at 10:30 and a nuclear stress test at 13:15. Just hope I don’t have too much left to do for the countertop folks tomorrow. Might have been a good idea for the missus to ask if I would be ready tomorrow morning before she scheduled them for measurements. This is what happens when two project managers don’t collaborate.
Just be careful you just might blow a poopal Valve with all that work going on!
Good luck with that test. I hope it turns out to be a complete waste of money and time.
Upside is, you'll glow for a couple days, save on lighting...
You and me both, but this ain’t my first rodeo. Already know I have some blockage in “the widow maker” from the nuke stress test I had about 6 years ago. Didn’t kill me then, so I guess they’re gonna give it another try.
CT tomorrow is for abdominal aortic aneurysm they detected a month or so back with doppler ultrasound. They know it’s there, but not if I need surgery for it (yet). Common in men over 60 that have EVER smoked, predominantly white males. I quit on 10/10/2009, a little too late after 35 years of lighting up. As for aortic stenosis, I’m at 3.8 on a scale of 0 to 5. Not far off the need for a valve implant. Ain’t cholesterol a bitch? Otherwise, healthy as a horse. I keep a positive attitude, because if I don’t, I’m not a nice person to live with. The missus deserves a lot better than that.
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Good luck with the tests.
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