Today was a good day to install a new dishwasher. Good thing too, because our new one showed up this morning. I would say this has been a long time coming and almost didn’t happen. Luckily, while we were in the kitchen place in December, we made the decision to get one. I think it was the right choice. The strangest thing is now I feel like I’m living in my mother’s house. The kitchen feels so “legitimate.” I mean, we are so used to washing dishes by hand…I guess I just feel spoiled, that’s all. Even the sound of the dishwasher feels like when I was growing up. You know the feeling…having a conversation while wiping down the counter tops at night, listening to the hum of the dishwasher. It’s weird.
Ok, so here are some photos of the installation. I would first like to say thank you to Rob and Paul who both offered to come over and help install this beast. It needed to be wired and plumbed, but when I found out how easy everything easy to do myself, I just couldn’t help it. Onto the pictures…
This is the Frigidaire dishwasher we got. It is a no frills model. We got it for $230, which was the cheapest one in the store. I asked the sales guy what the difference was between this one and the others and he told me basically features and sound dampening. I told him we would take this one. I don’t need the thing to scratch my back, I need it to clean the dishes.
This is the hot water feed that comes from under the sink right next door. This fitting came with the dishwasher installation kit I bought from Home Depot.
This is the rest of the kit (braided hose) after it is all together. Sorry for the blurriness.
This clear hose is the drain hose that goes up and over the dishwasher and then attached to my drain hose I bought last week. I clamped the two together with a fitting.
This is the wiring I ran from the breaker box, under the house and up through the floor in back of the dishwasher. The wires just attach to the two wires that come with the dishwasher. The ground gets screwed right to the dishwasher. The wiring is attached to a 20AMP circuit breaker in the box. It’s very simple.
Here is a nice view of underneath the dishwasher, if anyone cares.
This is the fitting I got the other day. I talk about it in this post.
This is the almost finished product. All I have to do now is to put the base plate back on and peel the protective film off the black door. We already ran two loads in this bad boy and are very pleased. For a dishwasher with virtually no sound insulation, it’s fairly quiet. It doesn’t use much water at all and does a great job cleaning the dishes and silverware.
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Hi 🙂
I found your blog on google when trying to get help on installing my frigidaire dishwasher. I know it was two years ago that you installed the dishwasher, but I wonder if you remember how you secured the dishwasher to the countertop? I am a novice installer doing it myself, and the instructions are not clear to me on this step. There are those two long metal pieces protruding from the top of the dishwasher (as seen in your first picture) and I can’t figure out how you screw those things in underside of the countertop when the dishwasher is already pushed in. If you recall, please let me know!
Val
If memory serves, you need to open the dishwasher door to have access to those. Once the door is open, you will have the room to screw them to the underside of the counter top.
hello,
I just bought one of these (exact model) – a bit surprised your post was so long ago since I bought mine new. I did get the 5 year ext warranty (we have a black cloud and have used them on all three of our previous new appliances and its paid for itself time and time again). This however is our first new dishwasher so we’re excited.
I’d just like to know how you like it and how its worked for you? Our main reasons for this model was the Price, it was black and as far as features, we are an easy family, we just wanted one that was a quiter runing unit, had heat or air dry funtions (I was suprised how many didnt offer both), delay switch as our family needs this for teenage boy shower time so we load early and run after everyone is in bed, and mostly, gets the dishes clean. We replaced a Frigidaire Gold Quite Clean and loved it, we bought our home 6 years ago and it worked perfect until a few days ago when it the main pump got LOAD and stopped working, we don’t know how old it was, just that it was here so we can’t complain about it.
Please give me your honest opinion.
Daniel