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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 4:38 pm
by Strat
dishwasher wont drain. does not appear to be any clog in the palces that i can check.

Do i have to call a professional?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 4:43 pm
by ---
Strat wrote:dishwasher wont drain. does not appear to be any clog in the palces that i can check.

Do i have to call a professional?
water backing up anywhere else? might be a main line issue

unless you have a mechanized 200ft augur you'll have to call someone

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 4:53 pm
by Strat
--- wrote:
Strat wrote:dishwasher wont drain. does not appear to be any clog in the palces that i can check.

Do i have to call a professional?
water backing up anywhere else? might be a main line issue

unless you have a mechanized 200ft augur you'll have to call someone
No water backup issues elsewhere.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 5:30 pm
by bodysnatcher
time to move

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 5:31 pm
by bodysnatcher
i'd call a appliance repairman unless something is obvious

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 5:34 pm
by bodysnatcher
just this morning i was thinking... when we bought our house 6 years ago, the inspector told us we needed to change the hot water heater ASAP. after moving in, i checked the serial number, and it was about 12 years old, which sure, i guess is probably getting up there. put it off bc i didn't have the extra $1000 to get a new one. and 6 years later, it's still going strong. wtf?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 5:37 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 5:39 pm
by bodysnatcher
all those paper plates

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 5:59 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 6:00 pm
by doug rr
tragabigzanda wrote:start, i googled "dishwasher won't drain" and got a ton of "fix your dishwasher in under five minutes" How-To vids. Are these not sufficient for your needs?
i did this too last year when i had the same problem. nothing worked so i paid a guy a couple hundred and now it works

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 6:00 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 6:17 pm
by Strat
tragabigzanda wrote:start, i googled "dishwasher won't drain" and got a ton of "fix your dishwasher in under five minutes" How-To vids. Are these not sufficient for your needs?
I watched a few as well. Most of those videos are workign with removing all parts and making sure there is no clog. ive done most of that and haven't seen anything.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 6:21 pm
by bodysnatcher
does your washer drain into a garbage disposal?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 6:37 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
bodysnatcher wrote:does your washer drain into a garbage disposal?
yeah this can be a main cause, if you have a GD (lol) your dishwasher probably drains into/through it. Start there.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 7:02 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 7:06 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
or, just wing it

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 7:07 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 7:31 pm
by Monkey_Driven
I am deathly afraid of putting my hand into the garbage disposal.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 7:41 pm
by bodysnatcher
Monkey_Driven wrote:I am deathly afraid of putting my hand into the garbage disposal.
yeah, any time something falls down there, i use my grill tongs, even when i unplug it

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 7:46 pm
by Monkey_Driven
bodysnatcher wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:I am deathly afraid of putting my hand into the garbage disposal.
yeah, any time something falls down there, i use my grill tongs, even when i unplug it
Uh yeah. Or I make my wife do it.