Installing a new Dishwasher - a learning experience
I'm not much of a hardware guy at the best of times and installing a new
dishwasher was always going to be an interesting experience.
Always assume that everything currently installed in your house is a special
case. Our old dishwasher was attached to the water supply with a copper
pipe. This copper pipe had non-standard fittings at both
ends. I spent over an hour trying to bend the old copper pipe to be where
the new dishwasher wanted it to be. Then I realized it couldn't be made to fit
the new dishwasher. So I took the old copper pipe to Preston Hardware, looking at the pipe they
told me that my shut off valve had non standard thread size (oddly enough I
think someone installed an outdoor tap as shutoff). So I had to cutoff the
old thread from the existing shut off, install a new compression adapter (there
was just enough pipe to do this) and install the new hose.
All told it took over 3 hours to install the new dishwasher!! but it doesn't
appear to have leaked, so it was worth the effort (and the infinite supply of
plumber's tape I used).