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Posted by LRESA500 on July 14, 2005, 5:06 am
How the hell do they get in ? Through the drainpipe?
Gary Lester
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Posted by Lar on July 14, 2005, 9:09 am
LRESA500@aol.com says...
:) How the hell do they get in ? Through the drainpipe?
:) Gary Lester
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Around the rubber stripping ...you may have seen steam when you run it.
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Posted by Art on July 14, 2005, 1:36 pm
I doubt it since they would show up in your sink too.
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> How the hell do they get in ? Through the drainpipe?
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Posted by Doug Kanter on July 14, 2005, 2:22 pm
Possibly (and probably) unrelated, but are the dishes coming out clean?
Someone in this newsgroup mentioned something interesting a couple of months
ago. Think about this: If you turn on the hot water at the kitchen sink,
after not using it for a couple of hours, how long before you get hot water?
In some houses (like mine), it can take as long as 60 seconds because of the
distance to the water heater, especially if water pressure varies (as it
does in my neighborhood). If your dishwasher's plumbed to the same pipes,
and you start it up when hot water isn't in the pipes, it may end up washing
dishes with cold or lukewarm water because modern machines only grab 2-3
gallons of water. Make note of how it takes to get hot water from the tap,
and compare to the sound when the dishwasher first fills up. Solution: Run
the faucet till there's hot water, then start the dishwasher.
This may seem irrelevant because you'd think that even cold water would
eliminate food smells. It probably does, but it's amazing how ants can
follow a scent.
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Posted by John McGaw on July 14, 2005, 7:41 pm
Doug Kanter wrote:
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> Possibly (and probably) unrelated, but are the dishes coming out clean?
> Someone in this newsgroup mentioned something interesting a couple of months
> ago. Think about this: If you turn on the hot water at the kitchen sink,
> after not using it for a couple of hours, how long before you get hot water?
> In some houses (like mine), it can take as long as 60 seconds because of the
> distance to the water heater, especially if water pressure varies (as it
> does in my neighborhood). If your dishwasher's plumbed to the same pipes,
> and you start it up when hot water isn't in the pipes, it may end up washing
> dishes with cold or lukewarm water because modern machines only grab 2-3
> gallons of water. Make note of how it takes to get hot water from the tap,
> and compare to the sound when the dishwasher first fills up. Solution: Run
> the faucet till there's hot water, then start the dishwasher.
>
> This may seem irrelevant because you'd think that even cold water would
> eliminate food smells. It probably does, but it's amazing how ants can
> follow a scent.
>
>
So far as I've seen, all modern DWs have an option to heat the water for
themselves if it isn't up to the required temperature. It works very
effectively in my Maytag and since the water lines to my kitchen sink
are extremely long and are uninsulated and I use the delay timer to
start the DW in the early AM so the water has had plenty of time to cool
off.
Every Spring I have some ants show up in my kitchen despite my best
efforts to keep them out. They are usually the super-tiny pissants not
much bigger than a flake of pepper and they seem to be able to maneuver
through the smallest openings. In fact, the DW is about the only place I
haven't seen them yet.
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John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com
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