Just in time for Christmas

The other night I ran my dishwasher, you know, like you do. Seemed fine. Until I opened it up after it was finished. Then water flooded part of my kitchen.

This kind of thing had happened once before, though not to this degree, so I thought I knew what to do—get into the drainage filters and clean out the muck. Which I did, and there was muck.

This time, though, there was also bits of broken plastic. And a couple of screws. Some part or parts of the thing had disintegrated, clearly. It's never worked all that well since I moved in here anyway, and this struck me as possibly a last straw of sorts.

Anyway, I sopped up my floor flood and emptied the dishwasher of dishes that had to be rewashed by hand and then put it out of my mind until I got a text from my neighbor downstairs asking if I might know why there was a slow but steady drip from her ceiling.

Oops.

I'd sopped up all the water on my kitchen floor, but maybe there was still a small pond underneath the dishwasher? Why hadn't I thought of that?

So tonight I removed the damn thing, and sure enough, about half an inch of standing water under it, plus the thing had somehow accumulated another inch or so of water inside it despite my not having run it in the meantime. Shit. (And removing the dishwasher involved disconnecting the waterline and drainage hose, of course, so more flooding, though comparatively minor. I believe I have two dry towels left, having used the rest to sop up the pond and the new flood.)

Good news is, there should be no more drip-drip into my neighbor's place. Bad news is, I have to get rid of this piece of junk and eventually replace it with a new one, which apparently will cost anywhere from $400-$1200, and that's if I install it myself. Assuming I can get it up into my kitchen. Maybe Lowe's will deliver it all the way upstairs even if they aren't installing? Hm. Anyone have experience with that sort of thing?