We thought it would be easy to do - we really did. Yet, who could have known that the plumbing under the sink would decide to fall apart at that very moment or that our water shutoff valve wouldn't shutoff when we needed it to.
Stacy and I, out of pure frustration with our old dishwasher (it came with the place) failing to clean, decided to go out and pick up a new one for the family. The process of finding and buying one was the easy part - it was the installation that made things rather interesting.
It was getting late on Saturday when we finally got home with the new dishwasher, but we thought it would not be all that hard (or time consuming) to pull out the old one and "pop" the new one in. The first sign of trouble was when the pipes under the sink started to separate. While this created some unexpected challenges, we thought we could still work things out. Yet, when the water shutoff valve under the sink failed to perform its sole function we knew that we were in for it.
In the end, we went to bed with our kitchen in disarray (parts everywhere), the water turned off to our entire unit, and the power turned off in 2 parts of our house. In fact, our house stayed this way until we could get maintenance to fix it (rescue us) on Monday morning. While in the end everything worked out and our dishes are now nice and clean, it sure was a stressful day and half.
The joy of trying to fix things yourself. :-)
