Dishwasher

Hi there!

Let me preface this post by reiterating how much I hate washing dishes by hand. Honestly if there was any form of torture that would get me to spill all of my top secret intel about the Russian government it would be forcing me to keep my hands in dirty dish water until they prune up. 

Jeffery finally got the dishwasher up and running while I watched. I did end up downstairs to organize my sewing room, which turned into two sewing projects. 

The first sewing project was this:

A few months ago I bought Arthas a stuffed monkey that had a squeaker in it; well he tore it up to get the squeaker out because it was making him mad and then he was very sad his toy was ruined. So I saved the toy, all of the sewing room was packed up so I couldn't fix it then, to fix later. I got most of the sewing stuff unpacked and organized so I pulled out Mr. Monk and stuffed him full of cheap pillow stuffing and sewed up his butt where the squeaker had been removed, and his head which was his first attempt at removing it. Arthas sat and waited patiently through the whole surgery, with a very excited face. Mr. Monk doesn't leave him, where ever he goes, Mr. Monk goes too.

The second sewing project was two curtain panels for where the projector is in the basement.
No picture, it's pretty boring. Plain brown. I altered them from curtains I already had.



And just so Julie doesn't feel left out, I decided to include a picture of what she has done all day.


And now for the dishwasher.




First to build a space for it, by removing what remained of my counter space. (There is a little space in the corner but it's kind of blocked by the stove and chair and the dishes were piling up there because I refused to wash dishes by hand and Jeffery doesn't like doing it either.)




The saws-all is seriously the most amazing tool. I'd never really seen one at work before, they're really handy.



There's a pipe in the back there that would have been in the way of the dishwasher so he had to leave a weird section of cabinet behind and cut slightly into the other. I think we're going to turn it into a little cupboard to store dish washing detergent and rinse aid, instead of wasting space.



I didn't get any photos of him wiring or plumbing because I was downstairs sewing. Basically what he did was drill a hole into the floor which went right down into my sewing room in the basement. The ceiling down there is just a drop ceiling so he took the panels out and fished it through the ceiling into the next room and into the circuit breaker box. It's of course plumbed straight into the sink and the drain goes right into the garbage disposal.

I have to laugh because the house had a garbage disposal and a double oven but no dishwasher.




On and doing it's job.



Pretty led lights to tell you what options you have selected and what step of the cycle it's on. It also plays a tune when you push the buttons, it makes me seriously happy. It's the little things.

Next on the agenda for this 4 day weekend is to frame the cabinets in that he chopped for the dishwasher and where the microwave once stood so that I can sand and paint!

Thanks for stopping by! -Em