CONGRATS!! I love it. I have had my Miele La Perla II about 6 months I think. While it is totally amazing, I have to have the new Futura Diamond. I called my Miele appliance store (I've used them for about 15 years)...hopefully they can get me a Futura Diamond in a week or so!! LOVE those LEDs. So funny your Miele installer told you to use 1/2 a tab. Miele told me to use a whole tab, as they were designed to be used whole, regardless of the load size. I actually like the Finish Quantum Powerball tabs MUCH, MUCH more than the Miele tabs. A fraction of the cost, so easy to find and my dishes and the interior of my La Perla has never looked better. I do use salt (either Somat or Miele Care Collection) and I also use Rinse Aid (Miele or Somat). Since the Finish Quantum tabs also have Rinse Aid, I set my rinse aid to setting 1, instead of 3.

The metal latch that sticks out on the top center of the door opening can be adjusted. The further out you move it, the easier it is for the door to connect to it, but can hear more water sound. As you move it further back, the door requires a small push to connect to the latch, but has a tighter seal and less noise. If you move it too far back, the door will not connect to the latch at all. My guess is that the latch on them are not properly adjusted. I've noticed that on some display models the tension on the doors are too much, as when you open the door and push it down, it will pull back up a few inches on its own. Again, this can be adjusted.

^^^^^^ ditto don't rinse your dishes going into any euro dishwasher. If you have wet dishes , you are not using rinse aid - or enough. Plastics, especially thin ones or things with lots of ridges like sippy cups and tupperware that will hold puddles of water in the ridges of the rims and nipples WILL NOT dry in a euro model or even in a domestic one for that matter ! That puddles of water require more energy to evaporate than either can produce on in dry cycle. This is experienced by many people using euro dishwashers for the first time , especially mieles because all they hear is : "it's the most fantastic thing on the planet and it even folds socks and does windows" blather. There is a learning curve with these that some people find annoying, and, if not followed gives poor results.

Hi 80810snut, I didn't see any benefit to the commercial machine given our usage: we wanted drying because we unload the dryer into our cabinets. The pro-speed cycle plus drying time = express cycle time on the residential machine. So, for our dishwasher there was no difference in timing on a program that included drying. Yes, 2K vs. 5K was also a big consideration. Even if I was saving 20 min. per day, I wouldn't pay the extra 3K given how we do dishes usually: after dinner and don't unload until after an hour of TV, so an extra 10-20 minutes didn't seem to make any difference and the cost is astronomical. In a commercial setting with continuous use the extra $$ makes sense, but we're usually doing 1 load a day, maybe 2 max except for special occasions. For special occasions (lots of cooking) I can do an express short load in 23 minutes... that's 4 minutes longer than the equivalent load on the 8083. I decided I could deal with an extra 4 minutes *shrug*. IOW 3K>4 minutes. Also, repairs: I figured if anything went wrong I would be able to more easily find residential repairpeople who knew the residential units. Hope the above helps.