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[rmd]

my dishwasher, which was a piece of crap when i moved in here at the end of 2001, just gave a big CHERUNK and stopped pumping water out. i siphoned the standing water out, then disassembled the bottom filters and such to see if maybe there was just something obstructing it, but nope.

time to shop for a new dishwasher.

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[hanseth.livejournal.com]

But now you get to buy NEW HOME APPLIANCES!! Can I come shopping with you? Please? I think my latest fetish may have moved from office supplies to home appliances.

(Seriously. Used to be, I couldn't pass a Staples without catching my breath. These days, it's the ranges and dishwashers department at Sears that get me all excited.)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

too late!

having browsed around sears' dishwasher selections before, it appears that there's a group of dishwashers of near-identical price and pretty much identical feature set. at any given time, one or more of them is on sale. i bought that one. should be ready for in-store pick-up some time mid-week next week.

i figure i'll swap it out over the weekend and have pinged a couple of folks who've borrowed my truck to call in my markers. (the electrical part is trivial. the plumbing part of it is a mystery. plus the "i live on the second floor" part, which is not a mystery but does make it a bit much for one woman to move it into the house.)

since this is the first new built-in appliance i've bought here, there was the question of color -- i was free to create a whole new color scheme here. i opted for stainless steel with black.

[cz_unit]

It probably has the grinder under the impeller pump. Take the impeller off, then the housing. My guess is the shaft that connects the motor to pump has the grinder on it, grinder jammed, stripped the thing. Our Maytag has this feature; it sucks.

Chris

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

I was going to recommend Asko. I've been using Asko dishwashers for years now... They're expensive, but they're very quiet, and they're energy efficient. I've never needed to get an Asko repaired; the only time I've ever had a problem with one of their dishwashers was when a giant rat died inside the area with the circuitry after eating some of the wiring. We were wondering why the cats kept staring at the dishwasher. (I can't recommend their washers and dryers, though; I've had a lot of problems with those).

[keren-s.livejournal.com]

I'd LOVE a new dishwasher. We moved in almost 10 years ago and the dishwasher that came with the kitchen was a noisy old very low tech clunker back then. Unfortunately, it is a very long lived noisy old clunker, and it continues to do the job. Break, damn you, break!!!

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna recommend Asko and Miele. I love my Asko clothes washer.

[ceo]

This is the most useful information I found on the subject when I installed my dishwasher.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I've washed my dishes by hand since I was 18. It's really not as hard or as time-consuming as people think. At this point I can't imagine wasting hundreds of dollars on a dishwasher, except if my household was quite a bit larger than it is now.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a Bosch dishwasher at both the houses I've lived at in the past 6 years or so, and I absolutely love the thing... Quiet and powerful; I don't both to rinse any but the most eggregious crud off dishes and pots before I toss them in, and it always gets them spotlessly clean.