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To want a dish washer?

88 replies

dilemma456 · 22/04/2010 22:34

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Meglet · 22/04/2010 22:53

IIRC they use less water than washing up, as long as you pretty much fill the machine each time.

It washes it all super hot, kills the germs and comes out sparkling.

I have a slim line one and it goes on once a day. I would give up my tv and car before my dishwasher.

EricPicklesFatNeck · 22/04/2010 22:53

oh good! get a fecking dishwasher dilemma's dh!

stealthsquiggle · 22/04/2010 23:01

Ours was declared dead last weekend. Replacement arrives tomorrow. I have been washing up for a week and I know I use way more hot water (and water in general) than the dishwasher would for the same amount of washing up. Your DH is talking absolute tosh, OP.

KickArseQueen · 22/04/2010 23:05

My dp said I was unreasonable to want walk about phones and a dishwasher as they were unnecessary, I bought both and plumbed in the d/washer myself.

He has since agreed that they are necessities Its the only 2 points he's done a complete reversal on in our entire relationship, (although I purposley never put the phones back on the hooks just to wind him up)

Can you seriously not plumb it in yourself? its very easy.

displayuntilbestbefore · 22/04/2010 23:09

I don't think it's "easy" to plumb in yourself unless you have a good grasp of plumbing.
We were lucky, when we moved in there had already been a dishwasher so we just had to stick the pipes on the taps

truthisinthewine · 22/04/2010 23:10

My mum brought me a dishwasher for Christmas, when I told (now ex) DP about it he said I was lazy for wanting one and no reason why I couldn't do it myself (from a man who never washed up)

I LOVE mine, it makes the kitchen so much tidier with no dirty stuff everywhere and cleans everything perfectly and def uses less water than I used to when washing up.

Flibbertyjibbet · 22/04/2010 23:15

I have been 12 months with my first dishwasher. It's a slimline one put in our very small kitchen and to get it the freezer had to go.
No regrets at all - we only filled the freezer up with things that we forgot about and ended up chucking.

There are 4 of us, we cook fresh everyday and the slimline usually goes on once a day.

We used to wash up at least twice a day so it def saves water.

As we are on a combi boiler it saves running the tap till the water gets hot.

But the best bit for me is that you get without those piles of stuff around the sink all the time - the pile of stuff waiting to be washed, the pile of stuff waiting to be put away, usually both piles at the same time...

And now dp can't do his very annoying thing of filling the sink with dirty dishes that you have to lift out and drain before you can start washing up.

You finish with a cup, bowl, meal's worth of crocks, and you just put them in the dishwasher. Then when its full (usually after tea for us) you switch it on.

I would never go back to having a freezer if it meant losing my dishwasher.

Get one, or buy your dh some marigolds as he will be needing them.

Flibbertyjibbet · 22/04/2010 23:16

Oh and when your dp is being environmenally friendly, making home made jam from fruit he's grown himself, he can sterilise the jars just by putting them through a dishwasher cycle.

KickArseQueen · 22/04/2010 23:20

Fair enough DUBB I guess to me it is easy though, I often think people assume they can't do something when they haven't actually considered whats involved.

I am not a plumber yet I pull my washing machine apart ( and my friends) when they go wrong and have a look and normally fix them fairly easily.

I've fitted dishwashers for several of my friends and it was my priority job to get my d/wsher and washing machine up and running the day we moved in.

I taught my friend how to wire a plug a few years ago, she was 38. She was surprised that it was so easy. I guess everything is relative

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 22/04/2010 23:24

KA - different thing to put the hose(s) in etc that to actually need to create the pipework off the sink and drain correctly though. If you are able to do the latter then I take my hat of to you

Goingspare · 22/04/2010 23:24

My husband always sterilises his jam jars in the dishwasher, Flibberty. It's like being married to the WI.

tinkletinklelittlestar · 22/04/2010 23:25

JFDI.

Unless husband likes paper plates and plastic cutlery?

Is he really 'objecting' - maybe he wouldn't be able to plumb the dishwasher in? A new machine is more efficient.

Wish we could afford one - we have a rule 'cooks don't wash up'!

stealthsquiggle · 22/04/2010 23:26

If the water feed is there already then you can definitely plumb it in yourself. If there has never ever been a dishwasher or the feed for one then you do need a plumber IMHO.

displayuntilbestbefore · 22/04/2010 23:27

KA - wiring a plug isn't quite the same as taking the pipework from the sink to an outlet for the dishwasher to be plumbed into! But I know what you mean (and know who to call if we ever move to a house without plumbing for a dishwasher!)

KickArseQueen · 22/04/2010 23:30

Gosh! no-ones taken their hat off to me on here before Indeed I can do that!

The only downside to my friends knowing I can fix stuff is that I end up offending their husbands who don't know how to fix the damn thing but feel unmanned by the woman who does. Shame! , my dp is just glad he doesn't have to do it.

BeenBeta · 22/04/2010 23:40

flibberty/Goingspare - been tempted to make jam this year as our breadmaker has a jam making cycle. It is so easy to do.

Sterilising the jars in a dishwasher is a fanatastic tip. Thank you.

Flibbertyjibbet · 22/04/2010 23:43

I have a breadmaker but never felt tempted to make jam in it. I like to get my grandma's old jam pan out and make a big mess on the cooker

displayuntilbestbefore · 22/04/2010 23:45

BeenBeta - ooh, does that mean you could maybe make a batch of jam doughnuts in it

BeenBeta · 22/04/2010 23:47

It has a special cycle for jam making on my Panasonic - which gives me a certain overconfidence.

displayuntilbestbefore · 22/04/2010 23:50

No point underplaying the ability to make fruit conserves. It is a worthy use of your time IMVHO.

Dollytwat · 22/04/2010 23:56

I actually wouldn't consider feeding anyone if I didn't have mine. Even the children can stack it.

I also saw a recipe for mars bar vodka in a magazine somewhere, you chop up mars bars and put the pieces in a bottle of vodka in the dishwasher, run the hottest cycle and keep shaking it. Then strain and you have lovely vodka.

THAT should persuade him if nothing does

stealthsquiggle · 23/04/2010 09:30

Dollytwat I know what you mean - I have been seriously considering supper options this week on the basis of how much washing up they generate .

However, I now have shiny new dishwasher standing in the middle of the kitchen. Unfortunately it is going to have to stay there until DH gets home because it is sitting on a wooden palette and is too heavy for me to lift on my own (well, I could, if I had to, but it doesn't seem worth risking it and me for the sake of a few hours)

whatname · 23/04/2010 09:42

DO NOT GIVE IN ON THIS ONE!!!
GO AND ORDER IT NOW!!

Jenbot · 23/04/2010 09:54

Oh how I wish my kitchen was big enough for a dishwasher. I'm going to go have a cry now.

Dollytwat · 23/04/2010 09:59

Jenbot your kitchen IS big enough, you may just have to lose something though. Mine's a slimline one so you just have to take out one set of cupboards.

You just need a cooker, fridge and dishwasher in my opinion. Without the dishwasher there will be NO cooking