Guess what my LEAST favorite appliance is...

[TheGrey]

I got an opportunity to test my four-letter-word vocabulary. Apparently, our %&$#%#@ dishwasher has been leaking furtively for two days. What I thought was melted snow that was tracked in was water seeping under the tiles from this useless appliance.

And yes, those are peel-n-stick tiles on the floor. because the previous homeowners were rocket surgeons.

[Great-Kazoo]

Fans, dehumidifiers and patience waiting for the floor to dry. If there's a basement get the fans going underneath that area. Oh Yeah Merry Christmas.
We didn't know ours leaked till i was under the house while the dw was going. I hear a lot of water running, then notice Niagara Falls coming from the kitchen upstairs. That was 6 months after the kitchen was redone, floors & cabinets.

[MED]

I got an opportunity to test my four-letter-word vocabulary. Apparently, our %&$#%#@ dishwasher has been leaking furtively for two days. What I thought was melted snow that was tracked in was water seeping under the tiles from this useless appliance.

And yes, those are peel-n-stick tiles on the floor. because the previous homeowners were rocket surgeons.

I feel for ya; I just changed out the dishwasher in my rental. It was all backed full of food they decided not to rinse off the dishes. Water and gunk everywhere...what a nasty ****ing mess! ...three weeks later I got a call on the water heater...another PITA!

[TheGrey]

Fans, dehumidifiers and patience waiting for the floor to dry. If there's a basement get the fans going underneath that area. Oh Yeah Merry Christmas.
We didn't know ours leaked till i was under the house while the dw was going. I hear a lot of water running, then notice Niagara Falls coming from the kitchen upstairs. That was 6 months after the kitchen was redone, floors & cabinets.

Good point- I've got a fan in the kitchen, but I'll get one in the basement as well.

Seriously- I'm about to drag this damn dishwasher outside and take our sledgehammer to it. Maybe I'll replace it with a 30" cabinet instead- storage space in the kitchen is at a premium anyhow. GE piece of SH*T.

I'm so angry that I sound like The Old Man from A Christmas Story.

[TheGrey]

I feel for ya; I just changed out the dishwasher in my rental. It was all backed full of food they decided not to rinse off the dishes. Water and gunk everywhere...what a nasty ****ing mess! ...three weeks later I got a call on the water heater...another PITA!

What a pain! My folks used to be landlords. The crap their renters put them through was a good lesson to me never to go that route.

[buffalobo]

Least favorite is always the broken one.

[MED]

What a pain! My folks used to be landlords. The crap their renters put them through was a good lesson to me never to go that route.

I am unfortunately stuck with this house; paid on in 12 years now and i am still upside down because of the market crash. Instead of dumping it like everybody else, I tried to be responsible and keep it.

Hope your dishwasher project goes well with minimal water damage.

[Irving]

I called it before I even clicked on the thread. Sorry for your luck. You may be able to recover from the manufacturer if the leak was due to a defect (THE CHANCES ARE SLIM THOUGH). At least your insurance company would try to pursue the manufacturer depending on the cause of loss. How many rooms were affected by water? Watch that carpet. Mold can develop in as little as three days. Do you know what caused the leak?

[brutal]

DW is also my least favorite. They're such utter shitboxes.

Particularly when it's time to replace it. We haven't yet redone the kitchen and the brain surgeons that owned the house prior put in hardwood floors without pulling the cabinets. Most likely because they first put ceramic tile on the countertops (yuck) and married them to the countertop and wall. So we lost 1/2" of space and I have to use a sledgehammer to get the effing thing to fit and had to trim the bullnose edge on the counter to get it to close.

[flogger]

^ this, more times than I want to remember!!

What was leaking? Drain, supply or seals? As mentioned before, fans and air movement to dry it out, might even throw down some litter to help suck that water up

Just installed a 'new' model in a clients home that has a large flat pan beneath it with OPTIONAL leak warning wiring, like those water frogs. Good idea!