Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: the Dishwasher envelope please!

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

> Two caveats -- (1) It requires special dish detergent, so when the clean-up
> crew realizes at 7:30 p.m. that it's out, somebody can't just run to the
> store to pick some up (that sort of stores closes at 5:30 if you're lucky).
> It's easy to run out without realizing it, because it self-feeds through a
> hose feeds from the bottle of detergent -- and a bottle lasts quite a few
> months, so people forget to check it.  On the other hand, apparently the
> clean-up crews have been using normal dishwasher detergent while our
> maintenance finds someone to fix the pump that feeds the detergent -- just
> tossing in a little each cycle.
> 
> (2) We have hard water, coming out of limestone aquifers.  Because of the
> high temperature, a fair amount of water evaporates, leaving a film behind,
> which has to be cleaned off.  It's not difficult -- when you shut it off for
> the evening, unscrew the rotor arms, run a scrub brush over them to keep the
> holes open and over the inside surfaces of the dishwasher, and empty the
> filter baskets -- but a lot of clean-up crews neglect it.  One of our
> residents uses lime-away on it every month or so, but it can be a major
> struggle -- and hard on the fingers -- getting the knobs to break loose when
> they have several weeks' lime build-up sealing them in place.

Oh, yeah. THIS sounds convenient. I'm ready to switch!!

Sorry, Kay.

Liz

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