I’m in the process of pulling out my dishwasher while replacing the countertop. I went to disconnect the power to the dishwasher and the only thing that was connected was the hot. The neutral on the dishwasher was just connected to the conduit. Is it customary and/or acceptable to have just a hot connected to a dishwasher or have I just been lucky that the house hasn’t burnt down or nobody’s been electrocuted?
Please help,
Joe
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You are lucky. You need the black, white and ground wires connected to the unit.
Sounds like redneck lectric to me. You are lucky.
hey, even us rednecks know better than that.
Edited 11/27/2005 9:51 am by brownbagg
just curious. how old is the wiring? wondering if the "installer" either cut the neutral too short or just hooked into existing knob/tube with some conduit - whatever happened, sounds like you were lucky and now is the time to wire it right
found a connection inside a bathroom wall that was knob/tube wires tied to romex with old style copper wire nuts, covered with electrical tape, the hole in the wall filled with paper towels and then mudded over. so you're not along in "wacky wiring"
25 year old house. We moved in five years ago and got a new dishwasher installed as a part of the home warranty. I don't know if the most recent installer copied the original installer or just did this on his own.
Thanks for the input.
I'm curious is there only one wire?
If the whole thing is conduit------emt------ then I have seen that being the ground on more than one occasion.
If it is conduit all the way to the panel it would be easy enough to pull a neutral & a ground & a new hot using the old hot as a pull string.