Dishwasher electrical help!

[Dinner]

That costs money while this one was free.

[rah]

If it's less than 10 years old and made by a respectable company, there's a high probability you can go on-line and find the user manual which will cover any installation issues.

[Asher]

Is your time worth nothing? Why do people **** around with self-home improvement when their old stuff worked just fine? What a colossal waste of time.

[rah]

because it was an improvement. A machine that probably cleans better due to increased location and quantity of nozzles. Also newer machines will generally be more efficient in terms of electrical use. Besides, i like replacing my kichen applicances prior to their failing, so I can look for sales and timing of the installation.

[snoopy369]

Is your time worth nothing? Why do people **** around with self-home improvement when their old stuff worked just fine? What a colossal waste of time.

Why do people play newer video games when the older ones worked just fine?

[Asher]

Why do people play newer video games when the older ones worked just fine?

Because they have already played the old video games...

[Asher]

because it was an improvement. A machine that probably cleans better due to increased location and quantity of nozzles. Also newer machines will generally be more efficient in terms of electrical use. Besides, i like replacing my kichen applicances prior to their failing, so I can look for sales and timing of the installation.

The benefits do not outweigh the effort or end result here...

[Dinner]

I should point out that about a month after installing this dishwasher we ended up buying a whole new one because my lady friend didn't like how this one had a white finish while our fridge has a stainless steel finish. Then in April we got a new electric stove & hood so now all the appliances in the kitchen match. I honestly didn't care if the finish on the dishwasher matched the fridge or stove but women apparently do care about that sort of stuff; that said the sealed top stove is much easier to clean then the old open burner stove from the 80's we used to have.

[MOBIUS]

So the moral of the story is that you wasted a lot of time dicking around with an old dishwasher when you could have just cut to the chase and bought a new one, like we said all along.

[BeBMan]

Wow, someone mentions a dishwasher and suddenly people bring up all kinds of threads.

[MOBIUS]

Yeah, this one's a zombie/necro dishwasher thread...

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Do your dishes by hand. Lazy carbon-imprinting bastard.

I'ld be very surprised if the effficiency of a human being (especially one as awesomely spectacular as Oerdin) came anywhere close to the caloric efficiency of an electric dish washer.

[Dinner]

So the moral of the story is that you wasted a lot of time dicking around with an old dishwasher when you could have just cut to the chase and bought a new one, like we said all along.

I still would have bought the plastic flexible house and I learned about electrical wiring so it wasn't a complete waste of time but... Yeah... Mostly.

[Dinner]

I'ld be very surprised if the effficiency of a human being (especially one as awesomely spectacular as Oerdin) came anywhere close to the caloric efficiency of an electric dish washer.

I can confirm that I am lazy and that I do try to rinse/load the dishes slowly hoping that if I wash them slowly enough or badly enough she will decide to just do them herself without my help.