New dishwasher!!

Friday, January 11

We have been searching for a new dishwasher since summertime but we kept putting it off and not really wanting to make a decision on it and actually get one.  Then our old dishwasher finally died on us around Thanksgiving time and then it was a matter of timing and when we could actually get the dishwasher to our house and have the time to install it.  They we decided to send DH to visit his parents for a week right after Christmas and I didn't want to have to deal with one coming in while he was gone and not being able to get it installed so we waited some more.  I actually had finally decided on which model I wanted and when I went to the store to order it I was told that that model has been discontinued!  So it was back to the drawing board again and then I decided to wait until DH came back to actually put the order in.  We decided on a lower model than we initially wanted but it ended up saving us quite a bit of money and there were only a couple of non-essential features that we wanted that the one we bought doesn't have - such as a countdown on the front panel and some fold down tines on the bottom rack.

We opted to pick the dishwasher up ourselves instead of having it delivered and we decided to try installing it ourselves.  We were told that it would be in in a few days and they would call us.  Well a few days passed and no phone call.  So we waited another day or two and then called in and were told that it had arrived just that day so we picked it up in our van that evening.  Then it was a matter of trying to get the thing installed (we had already removed the old dishwasher the previous weekend when we made the purchase).  After working on installing the new dishwasher for some time we discovered that the new water hose that came with the dishwasher was not going to be quite long enough to reach where it needed to.  So we were going to wait until Saturday and see if we could buy something longer at a home improvement store.  Then DH decided to just give it a try and he managed to get it hooked up and we turned the power back on and it worked!

For the most part I am very pleased with the dishwasher.  It is SUPER quiet which was the feature that we were most concerned about.  It also seems to fit a LOT more than our old dishwasher.  The door sits quite a bit closer to the ground when it is open and that gives a lot more room inside to fit taller and oversized items that either wouldn't fit in our old dishwasher or took up way too much room (although it also makes you have to bend down more to load the bottom rack).  It is also quite a bit of a different look when the door is open with the stainless steel tub inside.  It gives it a much darker look.