How to mount frigidaire dishwasher
How To Install A Frigidaire Dishwasher - Installation
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hey what's up guys my name is mike
samhory today i'm going to show you how
to install a frigidaire dishwasher
specifically model number ffid2426ts
however this installation applies to
many frigidaire dishwashers
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all right before i get started
if you haven't removed your old
dishwasher check out my video on how to
uninstall your existing dishwasher it's
very helpful in that regard first thing
i'm going to do is walk you through what
to expect um when you purchase a
frigidaire dishwasher specifically this
model
you're going to notice it's going to
come in typically a box like this and
then there's the dotted line that goes
across
the bottom
all the way around
an easy way
to get the
unit unboxed of course you're not going
to be
ripping open the top and trying to pull
the dishwasher out or laying it down
anything like that you're actually going
to want to lift the box over
the dishwasher and easy way to do it
just angle it this way get your box
covered and just
put you at the perfect angle to do a
nice smooth cut so
just
just like that
that's it just like that and then as i
said you simply just lift the box
right over the dishwasher
going to go ahead and
show you
what to expect
when you purchase a new dishwasher
what comes with it
along with what you'll need and
the two the tools that
will make this job
easy
so
one of the things i'll point out now is
that frigidaire dishwashers will
typically come with the drain hose
already attached so you're going to look
for it it's just like this it comes
connected from underneath from the pump
and then as you can see
just to give you a visual it's from
underneath and then it comes secured
right here
and then um
on to the other side
same thing just secured right here so
that's your drain hose and
as i mentioned it's already pre-attached
so there's your drain hose
i pop it off for the for this portion of
the install right now
and then
once you get
the unit opened up
you're gonna see
this stuff here you're gonna have your
product registration your owner's manual
a few um
parts for your
dish
sorry your silverware basket and then
there's also a couple mounting screws
that are located inside this bag
you get a sample
detergent
and jet dry
and that's that for what comes with the
unit
now
in addition
to
what the unit comes with what you're
also going to need is your supply line
so depending on what your plumbing looks
like if you're replacing an existing
dishwasher
um and you know your line may be
directly connected to the valve and you
can't disconnect it that's one thing you
may have to reuse that line otherwise i
recommend going with a stainless steel
like a steel braided hose and the
dishwasher size it's a 3 8 inch
connection for the hose so you're going
to need a supply line so we have our
drain we have our supply
then
along with the supply line to
attach that to the dishwasher you're
going to need this 90 degree elbow
which is a 3 8 inch pipe thread
male end and then a three-quarter inch
hose thread um female end and this end
actually will secure to the dishwasher
and this end your water your stainless
steel supply line gets secured to this
just like that and will run
uh under your sink to your
water valves so
we got that checked off so your your uh
fitting there
and then
the final thing that you don't need
without the final thing sorry one the
thing that you'll need for um the drain
hose
is a clamp so to for the
for the clamp on the dishwasher that
will attach depending on your
plumbing again your dishwasher may be
draining into
a connection under your sink for the
drain or it'll be um connected to
your garbage disposal so depending on
that size that's why i like this
particular clamp because you could
adjust it uh to fit to whether or not
you're going to need to
um depending on what you know what your
plumbing looks like so if it's a garbage
disposal the hose will directly attach
and then you could adjust this to to fit
that if it's not if you don't have a
garbage disposal and you just have a
drain connection then we'll adjust the
drain hose to connect to the drain
connection and then you could tighten it
down with the style clamp and then
finally the regarding the electrical
these dishwashers come prepared to be
hardwired
if you have a direct line so you may
have an electric line that is located um
behind in in the space of your
dishwasher so if yours is hardwired
that's very common um
most dishwashers
are prepared are set up for hardwire
some of the models now are starting to
come with a pre-attached power cord
however you can always add the power
cord if yours is hardwired i'm sorry you
can always add the power cord if you
have an outlet so you may have an outlet
under your sink that you know your
existing dishwasher may be plugged in
with a with a um with a power cord and
in that regard and that's in that
scenario you would need to install the
power cord as well
um and if um so this is my recommended
cord i like this style cord because
sometimes under your sink if you have an
outlet that outlet is used to not only
power
the dishwasher but then there's a second
outlet
in that box for the garbage disposal and
depending on the placement of where it
goes this style plug gives you that
flexibility of where it can go sometimes
there's another style power cord that
angles down and if it angles down it
won't you won't be able to keep your
garbage disposal installed so i
recommend this power cord
there's going to be a link in the
description on the ideal dishwasher kit
that will actually include um your power
cord your wire nuts your
supply line
the
um
the clamp for the drain hose and
the 90 degree elbow so take a look there
if you have if you if you need some of
these parts now um before we get started
i'm going to point out a couple things
that i'm going to be using to get this
dishwasher installed so you're going to
want to get yourself a drill just a
standard drill we're not doing anything
crazy as far as tightening or loosening
you may need that just for primarily for
securing the unit
then you'll need
either
an open
adjustable wrench or a 5 8 inch wrench
as well which is the size of the hose
for the for the supply line so an
adjustable wrench would be great
i like these type of vice grip um pliers
this is good as well this will help
loosen the feet
and a few other things but i'll show you
in later steps
then um you know a phillips screwdriver
possibly a flathead depending on your
scenario so these are just some tools
that i like to keep on hand and i got
some drill bits but other than that we
can go ahead and get started
all right so the first thing we're going
to go ahead and do is prepare this
dishwasher for installation and in order
to do so what you're going to want to do
is lay the unit on its back that's going
to be the easiest way for me to not only
demonstrate
all the connections that need to be made
but also for you as well to get that
done so just lay it on its back side
make sure the drain hose is not um
behind it it's free and clear
and from there what we'll go ahead and
do is
start with
the connections that are going to be
made
first thing you're going to do is remove
the kick plate because that's going to
be in your way so go ahead and remove
the
the kick plate
first and this particular plate is
secured with
a screw that not only has a phillips
head but can also be used you can also
use a nut driver like a quarter inch nut
driver if you have that even easier but
it does you can't remove it with a
phillips screw so i'll pop that off
that gets the
kick plate moved out of the way
i will point out to you while we're at
this point with the kick plate it comes
with
two parts this is the primary kick plate
this is an extension in you know
situations where if you have like tile
floors um or if you're you know if
you're if your cabinets for example
might have been installed above a floor
and you know it allows you to just fill
in the gap so this just pretty much is
just a
guide so that you can extend this kick
plate depending on your installation so
don't throw that away so it's
both used
now the next thing is it doesn't matter
with how you start this this portion of
it but
for this particular installation
we're actually going to be
i'm going to show you how to
install a power cord to
the dishwasher because we're going to um
for our instance for our site here we're
going to actually plug in the dishwasher
you're going to locate this box under
the dishwasher and this is going to be
where the unit gets
um either hardwired or you install the
power cord again this is a phillips
screw that will
remove it or a oh actually sorry it's
not a phillips screw it's a star bit or
a quarter inch nut driver so let me grab
the store bit
and get that taken off
i'll show you that bit
so you can see it but the the bit for
that
electric it's just a star bit um or like
i said you could also use a nut driver a
quarter inch nut driver to remove it but
i don't have that with me today
pop that off
a little more power
tight
all right
so that pops the electrical cover off
and then it gives you access to the
wires to be able to secure the unit
these are the wires here
that
um
you'll be using
you got a white wire and a black wire
and then you have this green
ground screw
so if you're hardwiring your dishwasher
what you're going to do is
run
your uranus you know as this unit
picture this unit standing up you're
going to have your electric
hard wire that's behind the dishwasher
you're going to run it right through
this hole here and then that gives you
the
access that you need so that you can
secure the lines
make sure that when you do run that
the you have like the clamp that will
allow you to secure this to the box so
those wires aren't loose and they won't
you know ground out in any way um but
as i said i'm going to go ahead and do
the power cord installation just to show
you because it's exactly the same as if
you're hardwiring the unit just with a
power cord instead of hard wires
so let me point show you that first
so with my power cord here
i have uh
this power cord this particular power
cord comes with a pre-installed clamp
that will hold the line
um in place so we just fish that right
through the back first and then this
just clips into place
just like that and then
from there
we have three wires that you're going to
have not only if you hardwire or the
power cord you have a white the black
and
the the green ground um first thing i
like to do just to get out of the way is
go ahead and secure my ground wire so
all you're going to do with your ground
wire is wrap it around the green screw
just like that you want to hold the
ground wire so it doesn't start spinning
as you tighten down that screw it'll
want to spin so try to hold that ground
wire so it doesn't start spinning on you
it makes a good connection so once you
do that you just tighten it down just
like this holding the green the the wire
itself
and then it'll catch make sure that's
nice and snug you don't want it to you
don't want any loose wires so tighten it
down all the way and once it gets to the
end as you can see it's wanting to spin
that's okay it's nice and tight it's not
going anywhere the green the ground is
now secured
then you're gonna go ahead and make your
connections for the white and the black
wire
typically what you want to do is have
the wires um you don't you want to have
them up
right to each other i usually don't like
to have like i don't like to have my my
exposed copper to be different lengths
so i like to go ahead and have it to
where they're even and then
and then i use hold the wires together
and i use the wire nut to actually twist
it together so i'm going to go ahead and
cut down
well for demonstrated pressure give me
one thing i'm gonna go ahead and cut
down my wire there and show you how
that's done
so
so i'm here
and i'm just gonna cut down the wire a
little bit
boom so just like that and then
we'll just use the wire nut like i said
so you don't want to try to twist them
together by hand just put them right
even with each other and then use the
wire nut and use that to tighten the
wires so it's very important that you
hold the wires so that you can actually
get a secure connection don't let like
hold the two wires firmly and then turn
and use the wire nut to tighten the the
the ends as you can see i did that and
now and then give a tug to each of the
the different lines just making sure
that they're
just secured to one of the lines so you
have a nice secure connection
and we're going to repeat the same step
with the
with the black wire so same thing i'm
going to go ahead and
trim that a little bit
and do the same thing
so we're here
they're right there right up against
each other
and same thing i'm going to hold the
wires both firmly and use the wire not
to
to
tighten it down
so
once it's really tight again same thing
double check yourself make sure that
both wires are
connecting now
the final thing
well just before that's done now you
could either put the cover back on now
or wait until you actually test for
power so
the only difference is that if you're
installing this and you're hardwiring it
obviously you're not going to be able to
make that connection at this angle
because your electric line is not going
to be long enough to reach to here so
typically what you have to do if you're
hardwiring the unit and your wire is not
long enough
you do the wiring in later steps once
you slide the unit in place then you
would be running the wire through and
having to do it when the dishwasher is
upright and still working in this same
space it's a little bit you know a
little bit more of a challenge but it's
doable and that's the way it's done so
right now for my purposes i'm going to
go ahead and put the cap
the the electric the cover the cover for
the box back on
and this way we get that done
so that's back on
there you go so that's tightened now the
next step at this angle we're going to
go ahead and prepare the water supply so
this is where that 90 degree elbow comes
into play you're going to take this line
um and it is going to be attached right
here to this hose
hose bib type connection
and the way you secure it is you're
going to want to at this point you're
going to want to be
paying attention to
a where the
keeping in mind actually factoring in
which side of the dishwasher your sink
is on and how your water line is ran
um if your dishwasher
you know just keep that in mind because
it's going to determine which angle you
want to have this elbow face in my
situation here that i'm demonstrating
i'm installing a stainless steel hose
and i'm going to have i can actually
connect this fitting just like this and
have it pointing to the back because
then i can i'll secure the line here and
it'll run to the back of the dishwasher
and underneath my sink however you can
also factor it in to go this way say
you're forced to use like a copper line
because that's what's existing and your
line is running you know like this um
but you know you just you know keep that
in mind so this this this as you can see
can be moved um but what's really
important at this step is once you go to
thread this
don't use any pliers yet this this you
want to be very careful because this can
this is plastic it's a hard plastic and
you could easily cross thread it if you
cross thread it you're going to have a
problem and it's not something that can
be fixed you got a major problem here
you'd have to replace this valve
so you just take your time here and
just go ahead and put it like i said by
hand no force if it's not threading
smoothly or easily stop back it back out
and try again so as you can see i'm real
nice and smooth nice and easy it goes
full by hand all the way
and then you can give it as much as you
can by hand as i said i'm going to point
mine to the back but i got it nice and
tight and then all you have to do is
give it a little quarter turn um at the
end to snug it but you don't want to
over tighten it so again it's a plastic
fitting so and there's there was as if
you noticed in this 90 degree elbow
there was a rubber washer so these um
create the seals that's necessary
without any
um additional uh tightening that's you
know without an unnecessary tightening
so i'm gonna go ahead and give it a just
a little snug
as you see i'm barely
i mean barely a eighth of a turn just it
didn't take much because i tightened i
took it all the way by hand and then
this is nice and tight so that's it i
don't need any more there
um but make sure it is secure i'm just
saying be extra careful by not cross
threading
um that valve the next step um is going
ahead and securing
or attaching the supply line to the
90 degree elbow and same thing i'm going
to point to show you what's inside as
you can see inside these hoses
there's also a washer so
um again all you do is you just come up
to this thread
attack do it by hand as much as you can
go just make sure you get a nice and
smooth see it's really easy to go and
then once you go as far as you can go by
hand then you could tighten this um this
line once again not necessary it doesn't
need to be over tightened but it does
have to be tightened because this is
pressure you know it's pressurized uh
it's not just like a flow of water like
the drain this is you know it's
pressurized so it does have to be tight
but don't over tighten it so we'll give
it this usually
once you do it by hand there's not much
more to go just maybe a couple turns at
the very very most
you'll see here once a
something that you really feel for more
than anything else don't over extend but
so i'm nice and tight
i just double check myself here
yep that's it so honestly probably was
what two turns if that so that's nice
and tight
so we have our
supply line
and the fitting connected
we have our electrical prepared so that
it can be plugged in with a power cord
um
again you may not be electrically ready
but i'll show you at what point you
would want to do your electrical if your
hard wire and then we also have the
drain hose as i showed you um it's
already attached that's where it's at
down here at the pump so the drain hose
is already it's coming from here and
it's already ready to go now the final
thing that i actually like to point out
before standing getting the unit back on
its feet is the legs um these it has
four legs on the bottom
and um those are of course are to
level the unit uh
once it's placed but once you're upright
it's very difficult to break loose these
legs because there's not that much room
to work as you can see once this unit's
standing you don't have a whole lot of
room to get in here and get your arms
back here to try to adjust these legs so
i recommend you break loose the feet
before you go too far so just break
loose the feet because it makes it a lot
easier to just once you break it loose
as you can see it makes it a lot easier
to spin so i go ahead and just do that
break loose the feet spin it out not too
much just enough because you got to
still slide the dishwasher in place but
it's very tight and it's like i said
almost nearly impossible to do it when
it's in place but i like to break it
loose and then you can um back it up see
like this one for example it's tight and
this one would this one would be very
difficult to get
um once it's upright so
do it here
and go enough to give you some room like
i said usually i back it out about a
quarter inch
sometimes it gives there it is all right
so
got that done and then the same thing on
this side
that was nice and easy
and this one here
perfect so we got our feet
loosened up a little
so that
we don't have a hard time later once
we're leveling the dishwasher
and that is pretty much all you need to
do
to prepare the dishwasher for
installation all right so the next step
is going to be to slide the dishwasher
in place and make the necessary
connections underneath your sink and
then of course we'll test the for test
for power as well as for leaks but
before i slide this unit in place i'm
going to point to you point out to you a
couple of things here um
one being that this particular
installation is a just a test site for
for demonstrating purposes so i have my
outlet right back here against the wall
that's not common but that's where i'm
going to be plugging my dishwasher in
however
typically your outlet should be located
under the sink um i actually have an
outlet here as well
but
i got my garbage disposal plugged in
there and i can potentially plug in the
dishwasher uh there as well but either
way i just want to make you aware that
it's not not not like
standard for your power outlet to be
there you know you see ours here it is
normal for it to be under the sink the
other thing i'm gonna point out is
you're going to have to
um what you can see here is i got a
filler that is in between
in the space where the dishwasher is
between the dishwasher and the cabinet
under the sink but i do have two holes
um
that are right there as you can see my
up the hole at the top there is gonna be
where i'm gonna run the drain hose and
then the hole down at the bottom is
gonna be where i'm gonna run my water
supply line so i'll go ahead and go
ahead and do that now just so you show
what that looks like
um this drain hose like i said we're
just gonna run it right through the top
so it just goes right through here
and
i'm going to leave that note on there
because i want to mention
that in the next step when i'm securing
the lines under the hose so let's leave
that on there and then
i'm going to go ahead and plug my
dishwasher in
and
run my water supply line
right through the bottom
so my next move is going to be to
slide the dishwasher over
and begin to
push it into the space
keep in mind this drain hose it's really
important that your drain hose doesn't
run
like a roller coaster in order for it to
efficiently
drain it's rotor for the dishwasher to
officially drain so as you can see i
have it it's it's can it's it's pushed
into
the the way
on the on the side of the dishwasher on
the top of the dishwasher try to keep
that there so it gives it a nice flow of
running towards the top and then as you
slide the dishwasher in place just just
keep it so that this drain hose stays
towards the top of the dishwasher so it
doesn't end up behind it and um pinching
it in any way so as you can see that
stayed there and then
before i go too far once i get about
this far what i like to do is come here
under the sink and fish my lines just to
make sure that i'm free and clear of any
obstructions
and
no kinks or anything so push pull the
drain hose as much as it will go not too
much just there and then the i'm sorry
that was the supply line pull the supply
line and then the drain hose same thing
so once that's here that's good i'm
clear then i'm gonna go ahead and
pretty much little by little do the same
thing back and forth i'm gonna slide the
dishwasher in place
and
and as i get as i push it in little by
little
what i'm gonna do is
go back under the sink and pull my lines
through this way i'm again not
potentially
pinching the lines
so
you can see what you do is you look
you look on both sides this right here i
didn't mention is an insulation blanket
it's um you want to you know you don't
it's you're not supposed to remove that
it stays for the dishwasher it's a sound
barrier just helps absorb some of the
noise the water splashing inside so make
sure that stays there um
insulation blanket now the other thing
that i want to mention on this
particular frigidaire dishwasher
it comes with your mounting brackets
pre-installed they're right here so you
can take a look at them you see
so you can see it i'm going to go ahead
and try to slide the blanket out of the
way so you can get a good visual of that
but see so this is your mounting bracket
and as you can see on this particular
mounting bracket
you have two placements where you could
potentially secure the unit depending on
your setup so you have both options um
some you know depending on where where
you find you know a solid spot to secure
it assuming you're drilling into
um
either like a formica or wood countertop
um that's gonna be that's gonna be fine
however
um if you in our case here
we have
a
granite countertop and i don't you know
i just i
steer away i don't shy away from
drilling into any granite countertops
just because it's not a one time secure
you know or it's a one-time secure but
you're constantly opening and closing a
dishwasher door so i just don't find
that method to be very
um
lasting so
what i typically recommend everyone does
if the dishwasher you purchase has the
option to do a side mount do that
however this frigidaire model in
particular doesn't give you the side
mount option you can potentially buy a
side mount kit and add it if you choose
to
and i actually do have um some other
videos on how to do a side mount
installation but for this for this
purposes of this video what i i did have
here um and i actually want to point it
out just so you can see it let me pull
it out for a quick second right here is
a
bracket that i've attached to the bottom
of the granite so that i could secure
the dishwasher from the top so this
particular bracket i actually will show
you there i have a video also posted on
how to secure this bracket as well as um
uh in the description below a link for
um purchasing that on amazon but that's
very useful if you have granite
countertops and you have a dishwasher
that doesn't have the option to side
mount so you could definitely do that
option which we're going to show you
that here in a minute that bracket will
also come with these two small screws so
the screws if you're going to secure to
that bracket the mounting screws that
come with the dishwasher will be
entirely too long these little screws
come with that bracket when you purchase
it the two screws that come with this
dishwasher as you can see are almost
triple the length
they're much taller they're much they're
much bigger so let's go ahead and
continue um i'm going to push that back
in
and
we're here
once we get to this point
i'm gonna go back and just make sure
my lines are
free and clear
and they are
i'm gonna give that the final push
and
we're about in place so
and as you can see my dishwasher
the placement of your dishwasher where
you want it to end up is you want the
control panel
which is this part here to end up even
with your countertop so the only thing
that should really stick out past your
countertop is just the handle that's for
a nice clean flush look so make it even
you don't want to push it any further
back than that even is about where you
want to be that's like the best
placement that um will be will allow for
the hinges on the doors to operate
freely of course aesthetically it looks
you know most appeasing this way
but
that's
that's there
and then now i'm going to go ahead and
move on to making the connections
under the sink so we've already plugged
the unit in for power
the next thing i'm going to do is i want
to point out to you before i connect the
drain hose this warning um was on the
drain hose it has a couple notices so
you want to just keep be mindful of it
one of it that i actually like to
mention
is that it if you're draining into a
garbage disposal if for example you
replaced it recently or um maybe had it
replaced it could be why you're
replacing the dishwasher not knowing but
be sure to confirm that the the plug
that comes with the garbage disposal so
every garbage disposal comes universal
to either be installed
um where a dishwasher is in place or if
you don't have a dishwasher you this is
actually plugged off so typically in
here when this is a brand new garbage
disposal right through the inside it's
plugged up so you want to just grab a
screwdriver do yourself a favor just run
it through make sure that your plug has
been removed um because that's the one
of the primary calls i ever get is
someone's replacing you know has an
issue with their dishwasher it's not
draining and it turns out that the
disposal was replaced but um the plug it
was the
the plug hadn't been removed so i'll go
ahead and get that drain hose installed
now
you're going to grab your clamp loosen
it enough as i mentioned with this
particular drain hose on the frigidaire
line the size of the drain hose is
meant for a garbage disposal so it fits
perfect so you don't have to on this
drain hose it has a couple different
size options so you can see this is a
one inch so that's the size of this
connection on the disposal then you also
can go down to a 3 4 inch and even
further than that to a 5 8 inch
and you're it's very important that if
you are securing to a pipe that is
to these sizes that you cut this out of
the way or you at least have enough room
to put the drain hose at that point and
you tighten it there you don't want to
run this through a drain and it makes
this connection and you secure it up
here that's just going to bend this
it's going to do this with the drain
hose and then you're likely to have a
leak you don't want it to just you don't
want it to do that you want a nice tight
connection on the drain hose so as i
said this one fits perfect i'm just
going to slide it here and tighten down
this clamp so once you tighten that down
you can fully tighten it and
this is usually these clamps are like a
flat head or you could use a nut driver
as well i'm using a flathead screwdriver
here
nice and tight and
give it a pull it's good now the next
thing i'm going to do
is
secure
my
water supply line my valve
i'll try to give you guys
eyes on it is right back here
you can see it right back there in the
rear yup right there that's my um my
valve i'm going to go ahead and secure
my stainless steel hose right to that
using um again you could use a 5 8 inch
wrench or an adjustable
wrench
and when i add this when i attach this
line what i do is i'll do the same thing
as i
thread it by hand as much as it'll go
and then give it the final tightening
turns before i turn the water on so i
tighten that by hand now it's time to
tighten it if you have cpvc plumbing
it's really important that before you
try to tighten
that valve or that line that
you hold the cpvc if you just try to
just go in there and start to tighten
the the line
you'll you'll likely bend and crack the
cpvc and you're just going to have a big
flood so i've again
speaking from experience you don't want
that to happen to you
hold the pipe by hand and then tighten
it as much as you can
but if you have copper you might have a
little bit more you know
flexibility there but either way it's
good practice just to
know what you're doing when you're
tightening these lines so tighten it
down
all right so that's nice and tight now
what i like to do before i go any
further is turn the water on
so once that's turned on
so my water's turned on
probably heard it there um
and
the reason so at this point when the
water's turned on the very next step you
want to go ahead and do is go ahead and
look underneath the dishwasher of course
first check your connection here that's
pressurized so right away you're going
to be able to tell if there's going to
be a leak
so check that connection feel around
your fittings just make sure that it's
there's no
no drips no leaks whatsoever and then go
ahead and move back to just lay get eyes
underneath the dishwasher right where
the
supply line connects which is right back
here i'm gonna put my finger back here
so right in here
and i'm feeling it it's all nice and dry
so there's no water um but just you know
get a make sure that before you go any
further that you verify that there's no
leaks at this point you could leave the
water on um just leave it on the rest of
the way this way if
a leak is gonna
um happen you're gonna be able to notice
it right away you don't wanna go any
further now the next thing that i
recommend we do you do before going any
further so our drain hose is connected
and
our supply line is also connect
connected so both of those are connected
supply lines hooked up and the drain
hose is also hooked up so we're good
there the dishwasher is plugged in my
next move is going to be to
just verify
what you're going to want to do is make
sure
that before you go to the trouble of you
know leveling the unit and securing it
make sure you're
in business
so
you can actually see my lights are
already on
so i got the power that's when i plugged
it in it shows you that it's been
powered on this still has a film on it
for like a protective film so you're
going to want to go ahead and remove
your protective film off the dishwasher
and before going any further do a quick
test on your dishwasher just put a
normal wash and hit the start button to
start this particular model whatever
model you have you're using just do a
quick wash or normal wash choose normal
push start close the door once you close
the door that will
allow the unit to engage and start
working initially when you first
um plug it in and
um can make the connections it's gonna
do a prep cycle so you'll hear it
humming it'll be humming and once it's
done humming then finally the valve will
open and release the water uh filling
the dishwasher with water then from
there once it fills to the proper level
then it'll start to the wash cycle and
at that point once it starts the wash
cycle that's when i say you know once
it's it's running wash cycles on pop the
door open doesn't hurt anything there's
just a little bit of water that'll be in
there once that's done
you can hit the cancel button by a start
which is also canceled hold it down for
three seconds that'll cancel
and once you do that you hold it down
for three seconds it'll engage the
cancel cycle you close the door and at
that point what will happen is it will
begin to drain any water that is that's
filled inside the dishwasher so
do that and what you're looking for at
that point is look under the dishwasher
to the drain hose that i showed you
underneath just make sure it's nice and
dry there the pump's not leaking the
drain hose is not leaking um
because it's not uncommon that i've
installed i've installed a brand new
dishwasher that will be leaking from the
pump either a bad seal or it's cracked
or something along those lines and you
don't notice it when you're looking at
it but the crack is there so test your
area before you go any further so we run
we're in the dishwasher then after it
drains underneath
you also come back over here to your
drain connection and you do the same
thing just look at your the connection
at your garbage disposal as well as um
you know in the area just verifying that
you have no leaks
then um now we can go ahead and
pretty much once that's done
and you've tested everything
you're
pretty much in the final stages of the
dishwasher so in your final steps of
installing your dishwasher all you're
going to be doing is leveling the unit
and then of course we're going to secure
it as well as install the kick plate so
when you're leveling the unit what
you're going to want to do is look for a
few different things you can get a
little level if you'd like
for this point just so that you have
um you know a perfect square unit what's
really important when you're leveling a
dishwasher is you're leveling it with
the ground you're going to find you know
i
walked into multiple scenarios where you
know the countertop could be warped and
it's you know drooping down in the
middle so it's hard you know if you're
trying to pinpoint you know a perfect
level by just looking at it it may not
be you know it may not look as though
but the reason why you want to make sure
it's level with the ground is because if
it's not level if the unit is you know
not level flat on like on the ground
then the door is not going to open and
close properly um it's going to create
where one side of the you know
essentially what's going to happen is
your door is going to be
um hitting
the
the actual tub of the dishwasher because
it's it'll be cockeyed a little bit so i
like to look at a couple different
things so as i'm leveling it with the
floor i factor in a few points of course
i still want it to look aesthetically
pleasing i want my gap here
and here to be
you know
perfect as well as my my spaces from
here
down here
and on the same on the other side so
from here and here so as you can see i'm
nowhere near perfect right now so i'm
going to make a few adjustments and at
this point in order to adjust this
dishwasher to make it whole what you're
going to be using is those four legs
that we loosened in the very beginning
from what i'm looking at i'm pretty
close but i need to raise this leg a
little bit
or drop obviously the other leg but i'm
going to go ahead and go with raising
this leg
slightly
and actually
i'm gonna drop the other one a little
bit as well
all right
and um
the other thing is as you level it
square with the ground the pitch for the
dishwasher you want to have it as
straight as possible and it can have a
not even really visible the drum itself
sits as it should but more of a you know
a tip to the back but as i said you
don't actually have to they're designed
to already be
you know in the position that they need
to to drain properly but it's just
important that you don't have it secured
and the unit is leaning forward you
don't want it leaning forward because it
will it can potentially leak from the
front because obviously there's water
splashing in there and you want to make
sure that it's not leaning to the front
so it is leaning to the back anything at
all but as i said it just the perfect
you know
level would be just having this frame
going just perfectly straight up and
down
as i said you can grab a level at this
point just to make sure um
may or may not have one here with me
but
so
from this point my gaps
are perfect
all the way around
my spaces are good now the final step
once you have it looking perfect and
level um the file just so it doesn't
move on you when you try to open the
door to secure it i usually just grab a
screwdriver and i hold back
the
the drum with a flat screwdriver so that
i could pop the door open because if it
clamps you know clamps closed it's
pretty tight it's a tight you know
closed um mechanism so just hold it to
the top back so it doesn't move and then
pop the door open still perfectly in
place and look for your two screws
either the mounting screws that come
with the dishwasher if you're securing
to
your countertops or the two screws that
are used with the
the granite um
bracket the bracket that's used for
granite countertops and all you're going
to do is
if you look here what's nice about this
bracket is it's got many holes
and we just look for what's the closest
as i can see see i got one right here
and i can just tighten it right to this
you have the option
to
that's nice and tight you have the
option to bend this back and forth and
remove it so it's not overhanging as you
see it is here so same thing on the
other side
we're gonna do the same exact thing
you can see
we got a hole right there perfect
and tighten that down
nice and tight same thing you can bend
this back and forth and remove it and as
you can see the dishwasher is nice and
secured
in the space
and it closes
just the way it should
the final thing here
once you have it leveled and secured is
installing the kick plate so
there's the back of the kick plate again
it's got some insulation
helps
reduce sound okay just because down
there is where your pump
and everything is located
but from here what we're going to do is
go ahead and just run
the kick plate i want to point to you
here on this kick plate
there's two holes
one here and one here
these two holes will actually
line up once you go to install the
keyplate there's two
um drop-down uh pins that are coming
down from the bottom of the drum i'm
sorry the tub and they'll go right into
this position this way you know your
dishwasher or your kick plate is locked
into place so typically as you go into
this in this motion and you go right to
the back it will line up with it just
because
you designed it pretty much perfectly to
go in that position so once you get to
that point
you go here
and
you can feel where that goes so you can
actually feel where it's going and
and it goes into the those pins that i'm
referring to
and once i get that lined up you can see
right there
there's the placement for my screw
the hole right there and the connection
i mean the the extension is right there
as well so i raised the kick plate and i
could secure the unit
right there so we'll go ahead and pop
that screw in
i'd like to just start it first and then
um put the other side on and then i
tighten it down so same thing on this
side
so again you could use a flathead
screwdriver here or
i'm sorry a phillips screwdriver or a
nut driver a quarter inch nut driver for
that screw so tighten that down
what's gonna happen if you don't
properly um
if you don't install the kick plate
properly
what is likely going to happen
is that it's gonna
come be stick come forward and event it
may do it right off the bat where when
you try to open the door the bottom of
the door will actually scrape
the kick plate and you'll hear it so
it's important that you install the kick
plate
uh you know in the in the in the grooves
and in the position that it's supposed
to be installed so that your door does
open and close freely without hitting
the the kick plate
um
and there you have it that's how to
install the frigerator dishwasher as you
can see i left the blue on i recommend
you do the same until the very end
because with stainless steel it'll get
fingerprints all over it but i typically
like to wait the very end to take all
the
packaging off
i really hope this video helps and
helps you through your installation and
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