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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.