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dishwasher advice?
« on: January 30, 2007, 11:00:17 AM »
We are toying with getting a dishwasher but only have room for either the tabletop kind or the kind that you hook up to the kitchen sink (and roll away when not in use - my grandparents had this for years and it worked a charm).

Firstly, are the full-size kind you hook up to the sink even available in the UK?

Secondly, how are the tabletop ones hooked up?

We've seen this tabletop one:
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=178373&tab=specification

but it doesn't say how you hook it up.

Any ideas?

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Re: dishwasher advice?
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2007, 11:46:22 AM »
when we bought this house, it came with a table-top dishwasher, and we love it!
i dont know what you mean, though, when you ask how it's hooked up....  ours is plumbed in to the normal kitchen sink & washing machine pipework.


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Re: dishwasher advice?
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2007, 02:01:29 PM »
That's what I mean. We don't own, so would we need to drill a hole thru the counter top in order to hook this up? Because there are some dishwashers you can get, at least in the US, that you just hook up to the kitchen tap when you need it.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. ~ John Lennon


Re: dishwasher advice?
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2007, 02:28:27 PM »
Oh yeah... ours has got the pipes running through a hole in the worktop, down underneath the sink, where it's attached to the plumbing.

Sorry... ive never seen one that attaches any other way...  :-\\\\


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Re: dishwasher advice?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2007, 03:55:11 PM »
I hope you can get one.  I was lost without it when we were renting.  When we bought a home in Sept, a disherwasher was one of my first buys.  My brit husband has slowly come to terms with it.  Now if I could just convince him to get a tumble dryer!


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Re: dishwasher advice?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2007, 04:06:16 PM »
Washing machines & dishwashers with push-fit hoses for the kitchen taps used to be fairly common when these machines were typically wheeled out and connected up when needed.   

Most of the units on the British market today have a standard 3/4-inch BSP (British Standard Pipe) connector on the back, the same as the one which is normally used to connect the hose to a fixed washer water outlet. 

If you can find a hose which goes from a push-fit tap end to a standard 3/4 BSP connector, then you could just replace the supplied hose with that and hook it up when needed.  It used to be fairly easey to find these in plumbing and hardware stores, but I haven't seen one for some time.  You could probably still find them if you ask around though, or you could just take a standard hose and fit your own tap end on it.

Apart from the fact that permanently plumbed-in machines have become by far the norm in more recent times, another thing which has probably contributed to the demise of this arranagement is the design of the typical modern kitchen-sink mixer faucet.  There's simply no way to reliably attach a push-fit end to many of them.

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You might find it easier to just fit a dedicated water outlet for the machine and use the standard 3/4 BSP hose as supplied, even if you disconnect when not actually in use. 

Fitting an outlet where you already have the pipework accessible isn't that difficult.  You can even buy self-cutting taps which almost anybody can install:  Just clamp round the copper pipe and then tighten the valve down.   Go to www.screwfix.com and enter 13768 in the search box for an example.
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Re: dishwasher advice?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2007, 10:53:02 PM »
Thanks, I'll have a look!
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