{Our 2nd New Miele Dishwasher Arrived}

Yep, January 18 of 2016 was the happy day that finally our replacement New Miele Dishwasher Arrived!

Same procedure as on December 28...
Pieter in our Toyota RAV4 functioned as the pilot car, guiding this 18-wheeler into our subdivision.

This truck did have at least a lift.

Here it comes!

We had already taken the non-working one out of its opening...

There is the non-functioning Miele Dishwasher, waiting to be crated into the box from the 2nd one.

Here is the 2nd New Miele Dishwasher; inside our kitchen!
Now the exciting time for getting it out, placing and connecting it and seeing if THIS will work!

Pieter working on the water connections.

Since Pieter did not fit into this drawer opening for guiding the drain hose, I had to get inside.

It is almost inside...
The tile baseboard needs still to be put back etc.

It got leveled and IT WORKS!
Cheering after so many months with problems.
And finally I can start doing some much needed thorough cleaning!

{Old Miele Dishwasher on Bike Rack}

Okay, on December 29, the day after our New Miele Dishwasher got delivered, husband Pieter did go ahead and strap our Old Miele Dishwasher on our Toyota RAV4's Bike Rack...
We both did haul it out of the front door, it sat in the hall way and over this brick path to the car.

We were lucky that it worked out this way since otherwise we would have no means of transportation for dropping it off at the Recycle Center.
Yes, we have to drop off ALL our garbage ourselves.
We live just outside of the City Limits so there is no City Garbage Collection...
You can hire a private company that does that weekly but we live on a very strict budget and we don't like to have ALL garbage put together.
We recycle as much as we can by separating things!

Looking rather trashy...
But this is how we transport all our things, week after week.

Yeah, this was the culprit of our old October 19, 1998 Miele Dishwasher giving up...
I bet that in the USA and maybe also in Canada, a lot of people do have to drop things off at a recycle center.

{Our New Miele Dishwasher Arrived}

Well, as in every household, appliances do quit working and we need to replace them.

Such was the case with our Miele USA  dishwasher that we installed on October 19, 1998 so it had held up for quite a while.

We did manage to keep it going, a cycle took hours longer to complete and finally it no longer did drain.

So on December 28, 2015 the delivery truck rolled in and we helped unload our new Miele Dishwasher.

Yes, husband Pieter was a pilot car in our little Toyota RAV4, to guide this 18-wheeler into our subdivision. 

But we were happy, after Christmas and now we finally would get our new Miele Dishwasher!

Here it is, out of the crated box and in front of the defect one.

You can see a tea towel hanging over the chair, finally we would get relief from hand washing everything.

All excited!

ENERGY GUIDE looking really good!

It is an Energy Star appliance.

BUT... this one did not work!

Poor husband Pieter took it out and in about three times and we video taped the water flow, because the Miele people in Boca Raton, Florida thought there is not enough pressure or water volume.
Once they received the video, they were convinced.

They promised to ship another one...

That was not a happy ending of 2015!

Will be continued; stay tuned.