Last Tuesday, a friend of Michelle’s took our old washer and dryer. On Friday night, we took the rest of our appliances out of the kitchen and moved them downstairs to the condo’s recycling / loading room, so that they could be easily taken away on Saturday morning. The dishwasher was the most painful experience. The sales woman who told us that it shouldn’t be a problem for us to uninstall / reinstall that piece clearly had a different idea of the word “problem” than most people.

On Saturday morning everything was delivered. The new dishwasher required a different piece of plumbing (a flex tube rather than a copper pipe for the incoming water) so we went to Home Depot to get that. Also to pick up some longer dryer vent tubing.

After some more fighting with (again) the dishwasher, installing the new one this time, everything was connected and working. At least the new dishwasher is extremely quiet (at least half as noticeable as a microwave – when it’s noticeable at all) and easy to use, so I’m sure it will make up for its troublesome start. We just need to somehow permanently attach it to our cabinetry so that it doesn’t move back and forth at all when the door is open / closed.

We’ve got the oven balanced, and the fridge finally readjusted from the insane angle that the guy who’d delivered everything had set it to. (He’d claimed it needed to be that way so that the doors would close. They closed all right, but they slammed as they did. Things are now much better looking, the fridge no longer “lurks”, and the doors now close gently on their own.)

The washer / dryer assembly, despite the professional balancing of the installers, still vibrates a bit more than we think it should – although certainly not enough to be really noticeable or cause any concern. We’re going to have to purchase a level (we don’t have one) and see if we can do some tweaking there.

The last thing, household-wise, is to install some new grills on our BBQ that we’d ordered earlier and just picked up from the post office yesterday.