Advice needed on dishwasher placement
fishymom
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Annie Deighnaugh
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Need your help with sink and dishwasher placement.
Comments (9)Right handed people have a more functional DW/sink association if the DW is on the left. That's because the dish is held in the NON-dominant hand whille the dominant hand does the scraping, etc. Then a turn to the left allows the dish to be slotted in the DW rack. (Simple slotting is easily done with either hand.). But if there is need for adjustment of other dishes to get space, again that's usually done with the dominant hand while the incoming item is held in the other. Having a DW on the right for a right handed person forces them to either keep constantly changing the item from hand to hand, or use the non-dominant hand to handle the scraping and rearrangement of dishes in the DW. So for right-handed people your solution of DW on left is actually better. HTH L>...See MoreNeed dishwasher advice - Miele, Bosch or Kitchenaid??
Comments (13)jrb451, over time calcium can build up on your pump and make it noisier. The detergents made over the last five years do not do a good job in keeping calcium and lime deposits away. I would recommend that you do a citric acid clean out of your dishwasher. (you may have to do this twice if you've never done it before). This will clean out the inner working and quiet most dishwashers. You can buy Dishwasher magic or most dishwasher cleaners at your local supermarket....See MoreNeed Help with Dishwasher Placement
Comments (8)To your right as you face the sink. It should not open into the space between the sink and the stove as you will be going back and forth from that area all the time. Also, it will be easier for you to open the refrigerator and put things on top of the current dishwasher location prep the food and scrape the remains directly into the trash below it. You put stuff into the dishwasher as you are prepping. And you will never have to step backwards into somebody at the stove in order to get around an open dishwasher drawer. I I don't buy the assembly line argument. People are going to put their dirty dishes down on top of the counter then you're going to knock the big stuff off then you're going to put them into the dishwasher, stacking it the way you like to have it stacked, nobody else is going to volunteer to do that. The dishwasher in either location leaves a landing space for dirty dishes but for the other reasons above it's better on your right as you face the sink....See MoreI really need some advice as to how to plumb in my dishwasher.
Comments (4)This might be better addressed by someone in the Plumbing forum at this website. You will likely have to provide much more information, such as a layout of the kitchen and of the fresh water and DWV piping under your kitchen. It is unclear whether hoses to a sink area are practical or allowed by the dishwasher (there is probably some limit) or you need to run plumbing to the dishwasher. And I would add that besides the usual approach to attaching the dishwasher drain hose to a garbage disposal, another scheme which can be quite quiet is to use a standpipe with trap (like for clothes washing machines) that the dishwasher hose connects to at the top. A slight tilt to the trap or carefully aimed hose orientation can ensure that the water runs down the pipe wall and doesn't splash into the trap water. (There is a requirement on standpipe height above the trap weir.) kas...See Moreck_squared
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