"mcp6453" wrote in message
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Our 22 year old dishwasher is finally worn out, so we're going to replace
it.
When I removed it, I found several things that I didn't like. The copper
tubing
for the water inlet is kinked. That makes me nervous. The power is coming
through a hole in the floor that is big enough for a mouse to get through.
That's an easy fix.

The dishwasher was installed incorrectly. The idiots who installed it put
wood
shims under each roller and under the front feet. According to the manual,
the
wheels should have been set on 4 or 5 for the cabinet height. They were
set on
2. The front feet had plenty of room to unscrew.

When I made my daily trip to Lowes, the salesman suggested that I get one
of the
steel clad dishwasher hoses to replace the copper tubing all together. (My
first
thoughts were to replace the copper with Pex, but it's not worth the
trouble,
since I don't have the experience or the tools to use it.) Any thoughts to
the
contrary?

My wife wants a plain and simple under-the-counter stainless dish washer.
Is one
brand particularly better than another? We're not interested in ones like
they
put in million dollar houses.

I just replaced my dishwasher and went through your situation. My research
showed that there were no clear winners as the "best" dishwasher, at least
as far as the end users were concerned. It seemed an equal number of people
liked as hated most machines.
Most new machines are built totally different from the older ones. They call
it "tall tub", which would indicate more room inside, however our
measurements show a shallower tub from front to back, and clearly less room
inside. On older machines there was room under the machine to work the
plumbing and electrical. The newer machines have essentially a tunnel that
the wiring and plumbing pass through, necessitating the electrical cable to
be in one specific spot, in line with the junction box, and pretty much
requiring the water line to be flexible hose.
We replaced a ten year old Maytag $350 plain vanilla machine that worked
poor to fair with a $1250 Bosch that works fair