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18 inch dishwasher
Miele dishwasher
Portable dishwashers

18 inch dishwasher

Dec 2004

Does anyone have any recommendations on brands of 18-inch or 19-inch dishwashers? We're hoping to install a dishwasher into our kitchen and don't have room for the standard 24-inch size. Also, if you used a contractor to help you with this and had good luck, please let me know! Thanks for any advice! Sarah

I have only found 2 companies that make these - Miele (sp?) and Kenmore. Kenmore makes one model - around $400 or so (maybe less). Miele makes a few that start at $1200. Have not purchased one yet. Heard the kenmore is a little loud from someone who has it. I have also heard the Miele holds as much as a 24 inch Kenmore type. looking too

Miele dishwasher

Nov 2004

My husband and I are considering an expensive Miele dishwasher. We hear they are extremely reliable. Is this true? Joanna

We have a Miele dishwasher and other Miele products and they are top of the line appliances. We bought a sale model at a high end appliance store in San Jose for about 50% off list and are very happy with it. The cutlery top rack is the best, once you use it you'll never go back to the silverware basket where everything is dumped in willy nilly. It's pretty quiet, on ocassion with regular household noise going on, I've opened it to load something in it and didn't know it was already on. We've had it for about 3 years and use it almost daily and it's worked great. You can email me if you have any other questions.

Portable dishwashers

March 2005

I'm looking for advice on where to buy a portable dishwasher. I've checked with Sears Outlet in San Leandro, but they don't have any. Any suggestions on another inexpensive place thatwould have a decent selection? Thanks! Bridget

We bought ours about 4 years ago from Galvin Appliance, in Albany, on San Pablo ave. It helped that they were right around the corner from where we live, but also that they deliver the new one, and haul away the old one. I can't remember if we paid much of a delivery charge (and that may have changed anyway, since we did this a while ago!). The thing about portables is that they are *never* cheap. They cost quite a bit more than built-ins, and I seem to recall we spent around $500 for our machine. I cannot live without a dishwasher, especially with my small apartment kitchen, so it was worth it for me. The other thing would be to try to find one on this list... Anyway, we had a great shopping/buying/delivery experience with Galvin Appliance, and would use them again. Good Luck Donna

1999

We went to Sears Outlet a couple of weeks ago and found a portable for $199.00 which turned out to be $170. off the "retail" price. They get more appliances in daily from lots of different Sears stores so I would recommend going out there once a week or seeing if they can alert you if one comes in. Word of warning - they give you 30 days to try the thing out but they didn't give us the sink adaptor and when I called to order it, they screwed up my order so I still haven't been able to try the thing out and I'm halfway through my trial period. Also, I had to pay to have our water filter redone to accomodate and had to get another plug placed in the right place in the kitchen so I spent almost the $170.00 on that. Still better than paying full price. Barbara

1998

To the mom who's sick of dishes...
Right before the birth of our 2nd child, I decided I couldn't hack the lack of the dishwasher anymore. But we had a similar problem--the space we had was too small for standard dishwashers, and no room for a portable. We ended up purchasing a dishwasher from Galvin Appliance on San Pablo Ave. in Albany that was smaller than the standard American-size models. It's a KitchenAid IC Series dishwasher; as I recall, it's made for the European market rather than here. They had exactly one in stock at that time (over 2 years ago), a floor model, so you'd have to see what they have now. Also, I've seen ads in magazines for something called a Dish Drawer, that is actually a large drawer that you stick dishes into to wash them (!) that might be worth looking into. An appliance store might know more about this.

The model we bought was more expensive because it's very quiet (very important) and an unusual size--altogether, with installation ($350, because of the work that had to be done in our kitchen to fit it in), the total was around $1100. They provided an installation person (who was a little odd, but did a pretty good job!). But it's been well worth it! Roxane

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