Posted on 12/01/2014 7:07:43 PM PST by newb2012
Dear FRiends, I need to replace my dishwasher. Would you recommend hiring a handy man do the job or getting it installed by the home store that I'd buy it from? Thank you all very much in advance for your valuable advice. Newb
Out here, Contra Costa Co used to require a close to $300 permit to replace a ~$500 hot water heater.
Permits are particularly irksome to me because they are required for quite a bit of what I do, and often times it’s not the permit itself that’s a big deal, it’s the 48 hours advance notice for some idiot to come out and verify that licensed drillers and registered geologists know how to fill a hole (often in the mere 5-10 foot range) with cement.
I’ve had municipalities FREAK OUT on me for spray paint marking USA (Underground Service Alert) delineations (”working before acquiring the permit!!!!”), calling my boss and starting a cascade of cat herding s*** until I can get to a copy of code and point out to the tax revenue absorbing moron issuing them that their own code states it (permit) won’t be issued until a USA number is available for the location...
If so, do it, if not, get familiar with them. Will save you lots of beer money in your lifetime.
Automation is taking American jobs.
Don’t install a dishwasher; hire one.
I’ve installed something like 8 dishwashers in this same house, in the past 18 years. Just put in a Maytag that was an early Christmas present to the family. ALL have had the power supplied by an appliance cord that plugs in to a standard wall socket. The adjoining socket is switched so I can have a garbage disposer plugged in as well. Much easier that way.
IF all the connections are there, your appliance dealer will be able to install it, if not, you’re going to need a plumber AND electrician.
And you can get books from the library to show you how to DIY.
My $1.398. ($0.02 worth, adjusted for inflation)
OS
It’s OK, he looted it from the appliance store in Ferguson.....
I was having new cabinets put in at the same time, and asked that the new dishwasher get the same paneling as the cabinets. It looked great!
Some dishwashers insist upon you buying them Playtex Living Gloves.
Please don't take it as a slam, but my daughter has also installed her own dishwasher and even a garbage disposal with only a few trips to the internet to answer questions - perfect items to gain a little experience that can be added to for future projects that may not require full-blown contractors.
Blonde, brunette or redhead?
Mistake number one! You shouldn't buy a dishwasher, marry one instead. The only installation required is to plug her in and turn her on...........
I know were not talking disposals here but it is the first thing I thought of when reading this post. You should ask Puddy.
Kramer, [in the shower, reading an instruction manual]: “Installing your
Clarkman garbage disposal. Dismantle latch hasp beneath main drainage lot.
Oh, come on, Clarkman.”
Puddy, [staring into space, picks up the phone]: “Puddy.”
Kramer: “Is, uh, David Puddy there?”
Puddy: “This is Puddy.”
Kramer: “Well, this is Kramer.”
Puddy: “I know.”
Kramer: “Um, listen, you’re a mechanic. Could you help me install a garbage
disposal?”
Puddy: “Well, it’s a big job. You’ve got to dismantle the latch hasp from the
auxiliary drainage line.”
Kramer: “No. It says ‘main line’.”
Puddy: “It’s a misprint. What do you got, a Clarkman?”
Kramer: “Yeah.”
Puddy, seeing Elaine come in: “Hey, man, I’ll call you back. I’ll talk you
through it.”
Kramer: “Oh, OK. Well, thanks, buddy.”
Thanks a lot FRiends, for the advice and laughs too:) I almost decided confidently about what to do. Have a good day!
I am not a plumber but has always did it myself. All you need is practically to connect a couple tubes, power cable and put a cover on it to make it fit into a kitchen. Some 40 minutes work max especially if you are replacing and all the connectors already in place.
You only have to pay attention to the hose evacuating dirty water. It has to be positioned in a certain way which is usually pictured on a washer in order to prolong a pump life.
Yup. Muhammed J. Walsh from County Cork.
Yeah. I am surprised at the dearth of do it yourselfers on a conservative website advocating self reliance. :-)
Bet it does!
You guys can’t know how Home Depot has trashed America with selling their cheap junk and anyone can do it mentality.
When you do service work for a living it is depressing how much we look like Mexico in the lack of skill and quality of repairs done, and materials used in millions and millions of American homes today compared to the way it was before the Home Depot era.
I can't disagree entirely with your post but saying because I install my own dishwasher is leading to the thrashing of America is a stretch.
I do believe you when you say you see a real decline in the quality or workmanship.
Of course I didn’t say that about you individually or any individual so don’t pretend that I did, but the Home Depot era is vast and all encompassing and changed America from homeowners being told they can do it, to every unemployed guy with a pickup becoming a tradesman, it also introduced truly junkie building materials and fixtures to America, absolute junk, from toilets to faucets and I hear the same about materials used in other trades.
Home Depot introduced nationally not only the badly installed faucet, but the disposable faucet, this is the replacement for professionally installed faucets that used to last 35 and 50 years.
You mean the $9.95 faucets will not last 30 years?
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