Dishwasher -- fully integrated versus integrated -?
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Dishwasher -- fully integrated versus integrated -?
Comments (4)I've seen both in the showroom, and its up to personal choice. On my Miele Diamante, I went with Stainless and with the controls showing on the front. I liked having them more there for easy access and can see the LED while its running. But if I was going to use a wood panel, then I'd go with the fully integrated with the controls hidden on the top. That gives the front a better "finished" look, as its all one wooden door without any controls showing....See MorePictures NEEDED of Miele Fully Integrated Dishwashers
Comments (2)Hope that helps. We also put in a matching toekick which is attached with velcro. It sticks out about 1/4" further that the rest of the toekicks but in this location we really didn't want the std black one that came with the machine...See MoreIs a fully Integrated KA KUDE70 possible?
Comments (23)gwentm, I'm about to install our KitchenAid KUDE70FVPA (panel-ready) dishwasher, and our cabinet maker is creating the custom door panel as I type... When making my appliance purchase decision I was out here quite a bit, reading about this issue, and I was real specific with my GC and cabinet maker about this question. Our lower cabinets are the standard 24" depth, but given that the wall behind them isn't perfectly flat along the long length of this wall, the dw opening happens to be about 24 3/16" deep from the rear wall to the front of the cabinet structure. Although the KUDE70 specs state that the total depth of the DW is 24 7/8", I measured our panel-ready model (ordered well-in-advance) and determined that when pushed flat against a wall, the front of the DW door that the custom panel attaches to is actually 24 1/4 inches out from the wall. Our cabinet style choice was to have overlaid drawer and cabinet fronts (with added raised molding, fwiw). The 3/4"-thick door/drawer fronts, with the little vinyl pads, protrude about 25" from the wall. So, I expect our 3/4" custom panel, added to the 24 1/4" panel-ready DW, to fit perfectly :-). Note that had we opted for *flush* cabinets and drawers, we would have needed to find another inch of depth to match up with the custom DW panel... Also, our granite counters have a 5/8" overhang past the door/drawer fronts, so the DW will be "totally integrated" under the counter. Pictures below... Good luck to you, -- brian...See MoreMiele fully integrated dishwasher question - handles
Comments (10)I think I want a stainless Miele dishwasher with hidden controls, but I don't like any of their handle options. In my quest to decide on visible vs. hidden control dishwasher (see my earlier post), I discovered the option mentioned in this post: Order a Miele fully-integrated unfinished dishwasher along with the optional "blank" (no holes, no handle) stainless front panel, no-holes (Miele part number 21995337D). However, I've looked at the cartoon installation instructions referred to above, and I can't quite figure out how this works with a stainless panel. The instructions seem to show how it works with a wood panel, but I'm unclear on how my own handle would attach to a stainless panel. I realize you can drill through the stainless (well, I can't, but my installer can), but I'm not sure what a handle would "grab onto" in a stainless panel, because I'm not sure what the stainless panel looks like out of the box. If you order part number 21995337D, do you get 3/4-inch thick stainless steel? The install instructions say the panel has to be 3/4 inches thick, but if it were pure metal that would weigh 100 pounds! Or is it a thin sheet of stainless over some type of wood? My problem is that I can't figure out if I need some special type of handle with special dimensions, or if this stainless, no-holes, no-handle panel from Miele is engineered in some way to grab onto any handle that can be screwed in from behind. Has anyone ever seen this panel, and can you explain how it works to install a custom handle onto it?...See Morerhome410
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