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[revchris]

Last night I (hopefully) fixed the dishwasher. It's never worked completely right, but the last time we had a service guy look at it, he figured out that the water level problem is because of the way the drain was installed.

When previous owners installed the dishwasher, they dropped the drain hose through the floor and into a p-trap on the drain stack in the basement below the kitchen sink. The drain valve on the dishwasher leaks just a little (apparently not an uncommon thing), and the drain configuration allowed it to drain out about 3/4 of the way through the wash cycle.

The fix was simple: add more drain hose and create a loop that goes up to about the height that a sink-mounted vacuum breaker would be at. In reality, it was pain to install, as it requires pulling out the fridge to get at the back of the dishwasher because the original drain hose was too short to allow the dishwasher to be pulled away from the wall very far. I ran a small load of dishes yesterday, and it seems to work properly now, but I'm watching for water leaks for another load or two, just in case.

Then teeka, snakewyfe and I went and saw the 9pm showing of Dark Knight, so I'm a little short on sleep today, but I"ll get over that.

Tonight is house cleaning and, if Teeka finds the parts, adding a pair of grab bars to the shower, as her parents will be visiting for a few days because the annual family reunion is this weekend.

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Re: Heheh

[ringsnake.livejournal.com]

Oh, and each of the wires in the box marked 220V attached to a different breaker switch. One said "Bedroom" and the other was unlabeled. The whole house apart from the kitchen and bathroom is on two circuits.

Re: Heheh

[revchris.livejournal.com]

That's also not uncommon on DIY projects.

At some point in the future, if you want, we can work on separating parts of your house into more circuits.

Re: Heheh

[ringsnake.livejournal.com]

I think I'm on top of that one. It's easy enough for me to do on my own once I found a good guide on DIY home wiring. The things I'll probably need help with are much less fun. Like putting in new basement windows, though I'll probably hire a contractor to do at least one of them, because we need to get a plus size window put in for the basement to be to code for a living space.

The other four I think I'm going to need a kind soul with a hammer drill to clear out the opening for the new window and some help on the other side to get the whole thing nice and level as it's getting shimmed.

Re: Heheh

[revchris.livejournal.com]

It's going to be less work in the long run to clear out the openings with a concrete demolition saw, rather than a hammer drill.

I can provide a hammer drill, but you'll probably have to rent the saw.