Our old dishwasher had two cycles . . . ON or OFF. Yes, that was it! None of the other cycles worked. LOL! It was so bad that the dishes were pretty much CLEAN when they were loaded in the washer! Greg had this "thing" about rinsing them before putting them in the dishwasher. The soap dispenser no longer worked, so we just poured the dishwasher detergent in there. The rinse aid thingy didn't work, either, so there was no chance of having "spot free" glasses. None, nada, not happening, period. Did I mention how LOUD it was? And by LOUD, I mean, if I was sitting here at my laptop in the dining room, watching TV, I couldn't hear the TV over the sound of the dishwasher! It was LOUD! I'm pretty sure the people before us never actually had it attached to the cabinets! The more time that went by, the louder it got! Seeing as the "delay start" function didn't work any longer, the only way to run it without hearing it was hitting the start button when we went to bed . . . which, considering everything else, made you wonder if it was going to spring a leak and we'd wake up with water all over the kitchen floor! NOT a very comforting thought at bedtime! Here's the "old" dishwasher . . .
So, I saved up some money and sold some stuff and managed to get an AWESOME deal on a new dishwasher! I'm SO happy! We thought about having Aaron install it for us, but after doing some research on-line, we decided to let a professional handle it. After all, everything in this house appears to be jerry-rigged (as you will probably recall from my last post about the ceiling fan!). We got a smoking-hot deal on the dishwasher, so I was actually able to afford to pay someone to install it for us, and it was much less expensive than what the store wanted for the install.
We also decided that we'd pick it up ourselves, and save the delivery fees. Because my truck has the cap on it, we were pretty sure it wouldn't fit in there. We lucked out, in that our neighbor needed Abby to get her son's truck from Wausau and bring it home, so Abby met me at the store and we had it loaded into the truck she was driving.
Here she is bringing it home for me!
Of course, the ONE DAY it rains is the day we have to haul something! Not a big deal, though, because we had them add some shrink wrap to it so it would stay nice and dry. We were a little concerned about getting it out of the truck, but it turns out that this dishwasher is incredibly light! Abby was able to take it out of the truck all by herself!
We were able to get the dishwasher installed the very next day, so I was extremely happy! It works out well that Greg is home during the day and can take care of this kind of stuff, so I don't have to take a day off work or worry about when we're going to get it done. It ended up taking about three hours to install, but I only had to pay for two hours labor, which was great! The guy who installed it said that it was really well built and the entire motor (or whatever you want to call it) was totally enclosed to help make it super quiet!
I know it's hard to see a difference, as they're both black, but trust me, there is a HUGE difference! The first time we ran it, it was soooooooooooo quiet that I forgot it was on, and went to open it to put something in, and water sprayed out all over! LOL I've now learned that you can just pull the door open a little bit, wait five seconds for the water to shut off, and THEN you can add more dirty dishes to it. :-) We're so used to rinsing stuff off before putting it in, that I've actually be putting stuff in REALLY dirty, just to see how it does! And let me tell you, it does an AMAZING job of cleaning all our dishes!
Yes, I am VERY happy with my new dishwasher!
Blessings to all!
Julie
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