Putting A Dishwasher Where There Was None Before
Bamboo House came with a major omission - no dishwasher! Horrors!
There are a few things in a marriage that are non-negotiable. Not having a dishwasher is one of ours. Mrs. Maker places very few non-negotiable demands on me, and washing dishes is one of them.
So, when we relocated to Bamboo House, I had to figure out a way to put in a dishwasher where there was none before. In fact, the kitchen of Bamboo House was really deficient for anyone but a confirmed bachelor surviving on a diet of all-day-breakfast, sandwiches, coffee, canned food, pizza and Kraft Dinner...and now you know the extent of my diet before I met Mrs. Maker!
The only logical place to put a dishwasher was where a half-fridge alcove had been constructed into the galley-style kitchen of Bamboo House. Not ideal, but really the only place where such an appliance could even conceivably be positioned.
Three small problems: (1) A non-standard niche; (2) No water supply; and (3) No drain!
Once we managed to find an unusually narrow dishwasher that fit the niche reasonably well (with 1cm to spare on both sides) I still needed to launch a fairly serious retrofit project to put in the utilities necessary to make the dishwasher more than a glorified dish storage cupboard.
This series of videos documents the entire process I followed, including a set of false leads that forced me to backtrack, pause, ponder, regroup and re-attack the original problem(s) I thought I had solved (but actually failed to solve) along different lines.
Here's the entire series, with no steps skipped.
It took a few tries to get everything just right, so you may want to watch all of the videos in the series before attempting to duplicate my results.
Part 1
Part 2 In this segment of the dishwasher retrofit story, I get into the actual plumbing of this 45-year-old house. Working with older, brittle plumbing turned out to be non-trivial, and there was a nasty surprise in store for me..
Part 3 In this segment, I recover the plumbing from having shattered, leaving next to nothing behind to work with and jeopardizing the entire project. Happily, after a lot of HACKERY, I was able to put the project in a position where it had a chance of successful completion - but not a sure thing by any stretch...
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Follow Up
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