have you ever did something one way and only that way for years and years, while other people said to do it another way. It went in one ears and out the other, without stopping in the middle.
Here the story.
I alway thougth my dishwasher was acting up. not draining the water. a solinoid problem or something. It been like this for years. I was just waiting for it to die. even though its only 1 year old.
The other day I notice the water in the dishwasher smelled like potato peels, which I just ran down the garbage disposal ten minutes earlier. I eat potato about ever two months. My dishwasher drains into the garabge disposal like I been taught for years.
I remember an agurment here last year about this. well I do I fix this?
2+3=7
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Install a vacuum breaker in the drain line,they are required in many places for exactly that reason, a slow drain can causee water to flow back into the dishwasher
Eat more potatoes
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I was always told that potato peels in a disposal was a big no no.
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A vacuum breaker is the best way; an unenforced code requirement in my area.
High looping the drain from DW to the disposer (get it as high under the counter as you can) is the next.
what is a vaccum breaker2+3=7
Brown Bag,
If you do install a vacuum break, also known as an air gap, keep in mind that it can also get clogged, causing similar symthoms. Ask me how I know :)
Bill Koustenis
Advanced Automotive Machine
Waldorf Md
Edited 11/24/2005 8:09 pm ET by MrBill
"I alway thougth my dishwasher was acting up. not draining the water. a solinoid problem or something. It been like this for years. I was just waiting for it to die. even though its only 1 year old."
Keep the DW, if it can continue to give years of service while only being 1 year old think how much you will save over a lifetime of not buying appliances.
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
I'd run the disposal for a couple of minutes while the dishwasher is running - as well as check out the vacuum break
I alway thougth my dishwasher was acting up. not draining the water.
Tell her that when she gets done, she's supposed to pull the stopper :)
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Get rid of the garbage disposal. I hate them things.
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Vacum breaker - air gap - johnson tee
all pretty much the same
Hey how has it been doing this for years & the dw is only 1 yr old???????????????????
potato peels in the disposer isn't ideal but not against the law either remember to run lots of water so you don't get a starch blockage in the drain pipe.
& I noticed Bob said that air gaps aren't enforced where he is----- up untill about 8 months ago I would have said hogwash but I learned that alot of jurisdictions don't enforce that part of the code.
Anyways if you want more info on an airgap & instalation let me know
Just to repeat everyone else :-)
Air gap or high loop. High loop means running the hose from the DW up to the underside of the counter if possible (or at least higher than the point where it enters the disposal).
And make sure to run your disposal whenever you put something in it. What's happening is that water is backing up to the point where the DW hose enters the disposal and taking the path of least resistance.
Get rid of the disposal, put the tater peels in a compost pile.
Better yet, build a worm box."The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out"...I was asked to build a worm box about 14 years ago. Just a big box with no bottom. I foo-foo'ed the whole thing up with craftsman styling, etc. And then I added a plaque on which I carved that sentence.They loved it.=0)
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