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Why was my dishwasher hardwired directly to a switch box?
Hardwired dishwashers need a disconnect switch.
It appears to me the installer did not understand "in an accessible area" and just stuck it in a junction box (if even) and stuffed it behind ...
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Cannot Find Dishwasher Leak
Gil's suggestion is a good one. I had a 6 year battle with ours, and that strategy helped me find the problem, eventually. Solving the problem was a different saga.
I'd look closely at the float ...
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Cannot Find Dishwasher Leak
A trick I use is to line the floor below the dishwasher, then run it. After it has stopped or if your paper is getting wet. Look above the wet spot, that should get you close to the leak.
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Under sink GFCI outlet wiring - hard-wired dishwasher and switched plug-in disposer_UPDATED
Basically it looks like someone replaced a standard duplex receptacle that had the hot-side tab removed so it could operate half-switched (for disposal) with a GFCI. And had no idea what they were ...
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Why was my dishwasher hardwired directly to a switch box?
A sequence of people who did not 100% know what they were doing. There is a reason why many places restrict electrical work to licensed electricians.
One likely possibility: Disposal.
A disposal is ...
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Dishwasher Filling with Water Despite Supply Being Turned Off
More than likely, it's the shutoff valve. They are known to corrode after a number of years and not shut completely. Try disconnecting the line from the refrig with the valve shut as tight as ...
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In 2023, does Texas require an air-gap between dishwasher and an in-sink food-waste 'disposerator'?
I don't know if Texas code has changed. These parts of codes generally don't change very often. If anything, I suspect that older code (possibly from a few decades older) had "only traditional ...
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