Further Adventures in Dishwasherdom

[malkingrey]

Well, the Sears dishwasher guys came and went.  They were very nice and prompt and helpful - arriving at about 10:10AM, which as arrival times go was about as convenient as I could have hoped for - but alas, their diagnosis was a dead wash pump, for which they would have to order a part, and for which the total repair cost (once the diagnostic

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[sartorias]

Totally makes sense on the dishwasher front.

[malkingrey]

As I always tell people, the dishwasher is my primary bulwark against complete household chaos. (Most of the time, I exist in partial household chaos, but I can live with that.)

Once we have a dishwasher again, I plan to spend a whole day loading and unloading it, and in the intervals just sitting in the kitchen and listening to it work.

[horace_hamster]

Yep, a dishwasher is a marriage-saver.

Dunno if you have them there, but a Fisher and Paykel dishdrawer is the most awesome thing ever. You can get one drawer or two -- one is probably sufficient for a small household, unless you do heaps of cooking -- and they are super convenient (no bending over and crawling round on the floor to get at the contents!) and super reliable (if it doesn't last for at least a decade, there's something wrong).

You do have to install it (i.e not freestanding) but they don't take up much space (about the same amount as 2 silverware drawers).

Did I mention they're awesome?

[malkingrey]

They're available on Amazon, at least, though they're definitely in the "pricey" rather than "budget" category. If we ever end up renovating our entire kitchen -- which would require a stroke of beneficent lightning on the lines of Hollywood deciding to turn the stuffed and mounted hide of one of our novels into a major motion picture -- we'd probably go with something like that. Of course, a kitchen project would be at the end of the line after the roof and the soffits and the coat of paint and the downstairs bathroom, so . . . probably never.

(One of the things one learns too late: If the folks from whom you're buying the house never in the course of their renovations got around to completely redoing its weird and archaic bathroom setup, you're never going to get around to it, either.)