Last night, as we were eating dinner, Derick and I were talking about what we wanted to do for the rest of the evening. I told him that I really wanted to go look at dishwashers at some point. After a small discussion, we took my car to the Appliance Smart in Champlin to look around at new dishwashers. We had one of the best salespeople that I think I have ever had! He was nice, very informative, able to easily compare two models that we were looking at and gave us a lot of time to “play” with the models. Then when we had it narrowed down to two models, he showed and told us how to install one ourselves – and that it was fairly simple. So, as we usually are at Appliance Smart, we found “the one,” bought it, went home and got Derick’s truck, and came back to pick it up.
After debating in the store for awhile to go with a “dream” dishwasher (stainless model for about $120 more than what we paid) or go for the slightly down-grade (white) one – we chose to go with the white one based on a few uncertain variables coming up in our lives. With Derick’s job, there could be the possibility that we could be moving sooner than we had thought originally. Also, the benefits and the color, for about $120 more, wasn’t exactly worth it to either of us.
It was pretty exciting to take it home that night. We had decided that we would try to install it that night. We first had to find which power breaker switch was linked to the dishwasher, shut it off after testing a number of the switches in our breaker box. We had to shut off the water to the dishwasher. Once we did that, we pulled out the old dishwasher from under the counter. I was dreading looking behind the old dishwasher – as I was not sure what kinds of dusty bug monsters there might be to greet us. One spider crawled out right as we started to pull it out – good sign right there…but when we unhooked everything, there wasn’t too much room for anything to BE back there! So that was good! *whew * we slid the new dishwasher into place, were hooking up everything, and everything seemed to be going really well. Oh – side note – regardless if you turn off the water you will end up with a puddle on your floor because the hoses hold water…
Well, when Derick went to hook up the last part of the dishwasher – the water hose – to the water supply, we reached our mandatory stopping point. The old hose we had was a lot bigger than the current one, so we have to get an adapter piece before we can hook it up and use it. Ugh. So close! Oh well, I can use it hopefully tonight, as my kitchen is slowly becoming a dirty dish mecca…
That is my current excitement, which I have been labeling as “nerdy news,” but as my friend, Ben put it, “It’s not too geeky…it’s home ownery.” Haha. I guess that’s true.
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