[Shop-talk] Dishwasher - leaky pump

[scott.hall at comcast.net]

if you buy new, you should be able to get dang near anything for that budget.  we got a nice stainless-interior kenmore elite for ~$500 a few years back.  it's nowhere near as quiet as they claimed (they claimed it was literally whisper quiet, as in it sounded like someone whispering and you wouldn't be able to hear it at all from across the room.  not even close.), but it is reasonably quiet.

we're buying the dish drawers when we get a new one because the ability to run just one drawer at a time is genius.

I've tried to have several dishwashers fixed, fwiw, and each time the cost of the repair exceeded the price of a new dishwasher.

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From: "Jack Brooks" <jibjib at att.net>
> I just noticed the cupping of the wood floor near the dishwasher <expletive>
> and traced it down to a leaky dishwasher pump.  
>  
> Thirteen year old dishwasher with a leaky pump.  This is the first issue we
> have had in the six years since owning the house.
>  
> Two question arise:
>  
> 1. Pull and possibly repair or replace the pump or buy new.
>  
> 2. If I buy new, and the budget is $500-900, what suggestions can you make,
> especially for quieter machines?  It does not have to be whisper quite, as
> we run it right before heading up to bed.  Hearing it run while we are in
> the kitchen would be fine.