Install dishwasher/permit???

Mike_Dumond · Sep 7, 2001

ejb, check with the town, it may be that you need a permit for a first time install, but not for replacement. Could be the installers are taking advantage of this and charging for every installation. As has been said, it is a very easy install. Just read the directions. It's easier than hooking some attachments to the 3ph.

Also, every town is different, so what you have to put up with, may be different than what i put up with.

Keep the greasy side down.
Mike

mikim · Sep 7, 2001

Over the years I've installed / replaced 4 - 5 dishwashers and they were all basically the same. easy - they were all held in place by screws that screw up into the counter top. They might be hard to see - look at the very front - and up under the lip of the counter. After that the water and elect connections are visible and straight forward. I agree on turning off the power - and the water. Expect to make a mess with left over water in the lines - both supply and drain - and have plenty of rags and a bucket readily available. The only advise I'd have is to be carefull about over tightening the supply line. Some of the supply connections I've seen are easily broken. Use teflon tape on the threads and tighten to snu-ug. (torque value = 1/2 grunt)/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
mike

MarkV · Sep 7, 2001

ejb,

I had one other thought that might help if you find the water supply line does not match up with the new unit. You can use the flex metal supply lines, sold at hardware stores, to add to your existing line. The fittings should be a match.

MarkV

ejb · Sep 7, 2001

OK, the vote is in. I am going to install it myself. Didn't think it would be a big deal, and I am pretty handy, just not something I have done before.

The $20 is indeed a permit, not a disposal fee. I suspect part of the $99 may cover the disposal costs...they wanted the $20 check made out to the town I live in, so it really is a permit.

I haven't taken a permit out for anything, including major renovations to my previous house. One of the benefits of living in the middle of a large chunk of land...now if I could just convince my wife to move out of the peoples republic of massachusetts....

bpence · Sep 7, 2001

Oooohhhhhhh. You live in Taxachussets. That explains a whole lot.

Dishwasher installation. About as hard as hooking up your bush hog the very first time, never having done it before. Well, maybe not quite that hard.

Bob Pence

beenthere · Sep 7, 2001

Me thinks the framers of the Constitution tried their best to protect us from big Government, but in 200 years we have ridden it into the ground, and I don't see any relief from more and more big Government. This morning, I had to visit the local township for a permit (turned out to be four of them) to build a covered, enclosed 3 season porch. At every turn, the cash register clicked and the total came to $289. Now, the inspector will get his pay based on how many and how much the permits come to. His bosses look at his work, and he in turn looks at mine. The more they can add - AC, wood burner, electric, plumbing, etc., etc. inspections. They will hover over this little addition practically every day, and want to show how much expertise they have, by saying what is wrong and what needs to be changed. Enough said.

Harv · Sep 7, 2001

<font color=blue>a freaking permit to replace a dishwasher</font color=blue>

Unless things have changed recently here in my county in the S.F. East Bay Area, we are technically required to obtain a permit to replace a light switch. Nobody bothers, of course, but it's on the books. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

beenthere · Sep 7, 2001

And I expect the fee is to pay the inspector to come to check that the light switch is put in according to code. And while he is there, he (or she) will check to see if the rest of the house electricals are up to code, and only sign off if they is. I have heard of $3-4000 electric re-wiring jobs, as a result of one electrical update (like a switch).