Went for a visit this past weekend to a nephews house…md-type doctor…nice house overall but a few oops during construction…builder went bankrupt a month after they moved in so warranty work is a bit hard to schedule.
Here’s a pic of the dishwasher…never have seen one installed high like this…there’s a drawer below and the counter (granite) is 6-8 inches higher than the adjacent. Kind of makes sense because you don’t have to bend over to unload the washer. Anyway, they seem to have cut the top rail a bit sloppy (hard to see in the pic)…and they have two cherry disks on the face of the cabinet with shreetrock screws run though them. Looks like they took the mounting tabs from the DW, bent them up onto the face of the rail, then fastened them with the discks and screws. At least the black screws sort of blend in with the black granite…
Do it right, or do it twice.
Edited 10/16/2003 8:16:53 PM ET by ELCID72
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Gee, I wonder why the builder went bankrupt...probably spending too much on cherry discs and piffin screws... ;-)
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Tim
Has the corner of that granite "melted" or is that just an optical confusion.
Interesting, huh? I had to look at another shot, but it appears that what you are seing is an oily fingerprint that looks darker than the rest of the un-polished stone. From jst the right angle is aligns with the edge and does look droopy.Do it right, or do it twice.
MAybe he could glue a few acorn tops over dem nasty lookin' thangs...or sumpin'.
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I have seen the bent up tabs thing before. Usually the installer didn't know any better. I don't do much in the way of dishwasher installation but I sometimes have trouble shoot dish washer circuits or get to boxes behind the beasts. A few times I have had to pull out washers installed this way and I try to put them back a little better than I what I originally found.
The tabs get screwed, drywall is fine but I go with rust resistant deck screws because that is what I typically have on hand, up into the bottom surface of the counter or apron. This also pulls the washer a bit closer and avoids having the white lining, I think I see it showing to the left of the door in the picture, show.
At least once a HO has commented that it looked better when I left. The installation looked finished and the door, when closed, fit almost flush with the cabinet face. This might not have been a good thing. I hear that she got much pickier looking at her house and started noticing small issues with fit and finish. I'm expecting a nastygram any day now from the builder.
I can see why this guy went bankrupt. It looks like crap.
What you can't see are the other problems in the house...I didn't think I should go around taking too many pictures...told him I had never seen a dishwasher mounted higher than the base cabinets (that's true) so that's the excuse for thaking that pic.
Overall it's pretty well built, but there are couple of doors that won't latch, one or two cabinet doors that need to be replaced. Back porch appears to be a structural concrete slab with a concrete topping that has been colored and stamped in a tile pattern...sort of. Looks like they drew the joint lines by hand with a trowel, which actually looks not bad, but there is one area, about 2 ft sq, where they screwed up the pattern and two sections overlap. They tried to re-trowel the topping smooth, but didn't do a good job, then tried to re-color with more dye, and now there's a prominent dark spot in the middlke of the floor that draws attention.
Do it right, or do it twice.