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Red Green

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On Apr 17, 9:41*am, "Jeff" wrote:
Is the hot water feed to the dishwasher copper all the way? For me
the dishwasher has a rubber hose that clamps onto the water pipe
under the sin
k.
It would be quite easy to disconnect the hose and tell for certain if
wate
r
was flowing through the copper pipe or not.

"KD" wrote in message

... On Apr 15, 9:51 am, KD wrote:

On Apr 14, 11:06 pm, Red Green wrote:

KD wrote

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Oh, sorry, didn't read that right.

Handyman guy was just here, took a quick look and has deemed it
coincidental that thedishwasherfailed at the same time of the
faucet

replacement. I'm not sure what to think of that, seems VERY
coincidental Anyhow, thedishwasheris still under warranty and I
have

fortunately found the receipt. Whirlpool technician is coming
on Thursday.

KD
and has deemed it coincidental that thedishwasherfailed at the
same time of the faucet replacement.

LOL! Is it ever any other way?!

thedishwasheris still under warranty and I have
fortunately found the receipt. Whirlpool technician is coming
on Thursday.

Oh this outta be good. Both will be pointing the finger at each
other.

KD, be sure to follow up on this after the Whirlpool tech comes
by.

*sigh* Yes, pointing their fingers at each other is what I'm afraid
of, because if no one will take responsibility, only one party will
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OK, Whirlpool guy just left. He says it's a water supply problem! My
response to that is *duh* - I know that there's no water. But he
tried replacing a valve in the dishwasher but that did not fix the
problem, tech says there's nothing wrong with the dishwasher.

It's unbelievable how a tech can have such poor diagnostic skills..

Maybe he was a handyman before he advanced his career.

With a reported problem like this, after checking the obvious, like
supply valve under the sink open, float in dishwasher not stuck, I'd
disconnect the water supply line at the dishwasher and see if water
will flow into a pan. If it didn't, I'd show it to the customer
demonstrating that it's not the dishwasher that's the problem. Why
the moron would waste time changing the dishwasher water valve is
beyond me.

My husband is the one that's home looking after this. Next step is to
call the handyman back, see what (if anything) he can do about the
apparent plumbing issue!

Some other details:

When handyman was putting in the new faucet, he could not get the hot
water valve to turn off the water all the way. I did not want to take
the time and money to repair that at this time, so I told him to just
turn off the water main to do the work, which we did.

Since having this problem, handyman says that the work he did
couldn’t be the problem, as the dishwasher hot water tap is below the
water turnoff for the sink, which in theory means that the dishwasher
gets water supply first. The sink still does produce hot water.

Handyman also says in feeling the copper pipe on the other side of
the dishwasher supply valve, it’s hot, so water is still going into
it. I don’t think it’s THAT hot, maybe the valve could be toast?

I was SO wanting to get my dishwasher on the go again today! *whine*

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