Monday, January 21, 2008 | by nathan

Projects: New Dishwasher

Last week my friend Brittany came over for dinner. I tried - and failed - to make Irish potato pancakes, also known as Boxty. Still, we had a nice meal and a nice conversation, and the next day Brian and I went to load the dishwasher, and it made a sound like it had prolapse, like all its internal organs were trying to fall out of its vagina.

But - crap! We had an entire kitchen full of very, very dirty dishes! It looked like this:

We’d been wanting to get a new dishwasher since we moved in, and it was on my list of things to do around the house in 2008. See how it’s all off-white and ugly, and how it doesn’t match our awesome fridge? We figured we could pay to fix the old one, or we could just pull the trigger and get a new one. So my wonderful other half shopped around at almost every dishwasher store in Oklahoma City and finally found a great deal on a new dishwasher. We were ready to pull the trigger; we were moving on up.

Then, Brian had a brilliant idea: "Let’s take pictures of each step in the process and do a blog post about how to install a dishwasher!"

"YES!" I exclaimed. "That’s wonderful! This is knowledge that could help people!"

So we moved the new dishwasher into the house, I got out the camera, and we got started. All went as planned. We got some wonderful photos to show you what we were doing. Photos that looked like this:

Which would’ve showed you where your disposal and dishwasher become good buddies. We hit a snag, however, when we pulled out the old unit to discover it had leaked and warped the floor underneath, and that we were going to have to CUT A MASSIVE HOLE IN OUR KITCHEN FLOOR in order to put in the new dishwasher:

So we did that. Turns out that the water line had leaked and warped the floor, which had bubbled up and got in the way of the old dishwasher’s motor and kinked the water line, which was why the old one never worked all that well.

Anyway, nothing went as planned, and if I’d posted the step-by-step of what we did here, and then you followed it in installing your own dishwasher, well - we just don’t have the money to pay for all those lawsuits. Suffice it to say, we have a beautiful new stainless-steel dishwasher that will save on our energy bills and that looks fabulous in our kitchen - AND WHICH ACTUALLY CLEANS DISHES, unlike its predecessor. Here, check it out: