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Plumbing a dishwasher from hot water not cold....
advisable? Temporary measure whilst a pal's house is made over -
think months/a year... Sink cold supply is corrugated copper flexible pipe, nothing else, hot supply has a length of straight 15mm copper then corrugated, the straight would take a tee... Or replumb cold tap with new tap connector and do proper? TIA -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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Plumbing a dishwasher from hot water not cold....
jim wrote:
advisable? Temporary measure whilst a pal's house is made over - think months/a year... Sink cold supply is corrugated copper flexible pipe, nothing else, hot supply has a length of straight 15mm copper then corrugated, the straight would take a tee... Or replumb cold tap with new tap connector and do proper? TIA I always supply dishwasher from the hot supply. It works for me. |
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Plumbing a dishwasher from hot water not cold....
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 10:33:21 +0100 (GMT+01:00), jim k wrote:
advisable? Temporary measure whilst a pal's house is made over - think months/a year... If you fill with hot water the cleaning performance on proteins such as egg yolks diminishes. However, most dishwashers don't use much water and unless the hot tap has been used just before the dishwasher is put on not much very hot water gets into it so not a lot of difference between cold fill and "hot" fill. |
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