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Finding a dishwasher with smaller than standard height?

18 years ago

Can anyone point me to a place where one can purchase (hopefully for a reasonable price) a built-in dishwasher that is shorter than the average? We need to install one in a space where there is only about 31"-32" available height.

(This is because in our house we have a kitchen with an beautiful old porcelain farm-type sink -- wide, with a grooved draining areas on either side of the sink. These "wings" are only about 31-32" off the ground, and any dishwasher would have to be installed under one of them. Raising the sink up by installing longer pipes and so forth won't work because the back of the sink is about 12" high and directly abuts the base of the cabinets on the wall where the sink is--to raise the sink, one would have to install new cabinets too.)

Comments (12)

  • 18 years ago

    If you can't find any, you may be stuck with a single dishdrawer, which isn't a bad thing in MY book, but you'd only be able to fit one in. I think it'd be worth the compromise to keep such a nice sink.

  • 18 years ago

    Have you thought about using dish washer drawers instead? They can be used singly, but I believe even two of them stacked are shorter than a regular built-in dishwasher.

  • 18 years ago

    "??Reasonable??" pricing starts at about $650 for a single drawer if I read the internet shopping sites right. A two-drawer at around $800, to start.

  • 18 years ago

    I think that your going to find that all standard style dishwashers are 34 + inches tall. Miele and Bosch are right at 34 inches, most others are taller.

    The only choice this will leave you is a single Dish Drawer

  • 18 years ago

    surfkat is mostly correct. Current generation of Miele will install at a minimum of 33 1/4".

    The prior generation G600/800 could install at a min. of 32 1/4 on the G600 series. You could lower it about another 3/8 if you removed the level legs and set it on the floor.
    It's possible you might find a place that still has a G600 display or discontinued stock but it's getting slim because these were rare to begin with. Probably wouldn't meet your reasonable price either , but it is an option.

    You're really stuck with a single DD, or now DW.

  • 18 years ago

    Well, I did find these GE models that are 32.5 inches tall:

    http://products.geappliances.com/ApplProducts/Dispatcher?REQUEST=RESULTSPAGE&CATEGORY=CA0086&SITEID=GEA

    But, they are only 18" wide. Thoughts?

  • 18 years ago

    Do you have a hole to fit or are you retrofitting and willing to carve into the existing cabinetry? Is there anyplace besides right next to the sink it could possibly go? I wouldn't want it much further, but if it could go just past the drainboards, it might be close enough to be functional. (Of course, older kitchens don't always HAVE all that extra space to pick and choose, but maybe yours is unusual. )

  • 18 years ago

    Well here's kinda the view of the sink,

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/59249902@N00/?saved=1

    I can't figure out how to make these things live links, but I will.

    Thanks for your comments, any ideas are appreciated.

  • 18 years ago

    Oo I like that. (And I had that same faucet in my old '30s house. And they STILL make them!). What was I looking at? O yeah. I think to maintain that look, an 18" would be better than a drawer. I don't suppose one of those doors would be as big as 18" would they?

    Well, you certainly can't put in a full size DW in the remaining cabinets past your drainboard. That's for sure!

    If you need more ideas on fiddling with cabinetry to make the DW fit in and look right, the kitchen forum people may have some thoughts.

    (Maybe you could send me your sink and get yourself a normal one!)

  • 18 years ago

    That sink is the same kind of sink my great-grandmother had in her house in Denver, and I remember holding onto her skirts as a little kid and watching her do the dishes. So I am trying to keep the sink around. The sink is unwieldy, though -- and it likes to break dishes!

    I will try a cross-post in the kitchen forum.

  • 8 years ago
    have you been successful finding a 32 inch dishwasher. GE has two but their reviews on in the tank.