<p>Depending on your model, it might only cost $100 or less:</p>
<p>[Dishwasher</a> Racks | AppliancePartsPros.com](<a href=“http://www.appliancepartspros.com/Appliance-Parts/?keyword=dishwasher+racks]Dishwasher”>http://www.appliancepartspros.com/Appliance-Parts/?keyword=dishwasher+racks)</p>
<p>Check eBay too, sometimes you can find the parts there.</p>
<p>Its better to get a new one. I got one from Costco for around $500 and has been using it for around 8 years. You need a little skill to install it though, it took me few hours to figure it out, after running down to the plumbing supplies for several times.</p>
<p>DW racks for models 5 years old or older are rarely replaceable with the exact part. And when they are: Expensive! I’m talking 1/3 of the cost to replace the DW. </p>
<p>Been there. That is why we insisted on nylon covered racks on our current 1 yr. old DW. Fingers crossed. </p>
<p>PS: If your want to get long service from your DW DO NOT use the heated element dry cycle. It kills the coating on the racks. Open the door and let your dishes air dry after final rinse instead.</p>
<p>Someone did open our dishwasher and look inside to see if the inside walls were stainless steel or plastic.</p>
<p>Bit the bullet and ordered the new rack last night. $154 plus shipping. We really need it. Heck, we might be in the house six or nine months from now anyway.</p>
<p>Thanks for that tip, toblin.</p>
<p>VH, good luck on the selling the house. At least, the DW will be presentable.</p>
<p>Met the new owner of a three unit monstrosity about a block down from our house – great location, but the previous owner had done ramshackle additions and repairs, and painted sections with whatever paint was on the “oops” rack at the paint store – or least it appeared that way. (He also cobbled together his own wiring. Shudder.) </p>
<p>New guy is really nice – but wants to redo it as a 3 unit Colonial townhouse. In the Rockies. He told me his architect keeps trying to convince him he shouldn’t go that direction…but I don’t think he’s quite ready to listen. It will go well with the adobe someone (mis)placed across the street. Victorian works. Contemporary works. National Park works. Foursquare or bungalow works. Colonial? Well, it will be better that what is now, and probably won’t feature a grow operation inside like it did before. He plans to live in one of the units, which should be a big help.</p>
<p>arabrab, at least he’s chosen a theme. </p>
<p>Dishwasher rack arrived today. Highlight of my week. It fits, and it works, so life is good.</p>
<p>We now have 2 back-up offers. One is more than full-price! (too bad we can’t take that one…lol)</p>
<p>Things are heating up in SoCal.</p>
<p>Very nice, mom2collegekids.</p>
<p>wow, that is great… mom2. Which county is that? I heard Orange County is really hot right now.</p>
<p>Mom2, that’s great! And Very Happy, I guess you are living up to your screen name if a non-rusty new dishwasher rack is enough to make your week. Or was it a bad week, if so, sorry!
With less than two weeks to closing, I am still obsessing over local real estate. Check out the price on this local charmer:
[Margaret</a> Yost:](<a href=“http://margaretyost.com/default.asp?Pg=ShowMLS&Nbr=81214151&Printable=&SS=13/1/Available#TopLbl]Margaret”>http://margaretyost.com/default.asp?Pg=ShowMLS&Nbr=81214151&Printable=&SS=13/1/Available#TopLbl)</p>
<p>I can identify with Very Happy. My highlight last week was finding out you can buy NEW metal pans to go under the stove burners! My old ones looked horrible, so it’s great having nice shiny ones now.</p>
<p>Hey, I’ll take my happy minutes where I can. I’ve been around enough to know they can vanish in a flash!!</p>
<p>The really sad part is going into the kitchen, opening the dishwasher, and smiling. You’d think I had just given birth to the thing.</p>
<p>Help from any experts out there? </p>
<p>I have a front porch that is large and screened in. You walk through it into the front door(s - there are 2). It is a square space roughly 15x15 with two doors into the house (1890’s sort of Victorian midwest house). Two walls are white vinyl siding. Two walls are screen with wood frame, currently white.</p>
<p>I need to choose a color for the porch floor. It was previously a dark green and white checkerboard but I am going solid. I’d thought all dark green because it is the color of the shutters and doors but two friends have said they think it’s too dark and one says it will show dirt, being too dark.</p>
<p>Cream, tan and grey have been suggested to me. The house itself is pale yellow (vinyl) but the floor isn’t really visible from outside nor is the yellow from inside the porch. I need to do something that won’t show too much dirt (from walking and from dirt/rain that blows in) but is neutral and will make buyers feel it’s clean and fresh and they don’t have to do anything to it.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any suggestions?? Painter is coming tomorrow. I’m in a little panic :)</p>
<p>If it were my porch floor, I would do light grey… That is JMO.</p>
<p>That was the suggestion of one friend! Never would have thought of it myself but i’m not good at this stuff at all…</p>
<p>I’d go with whatever was “in” r ight now (stupid, I know, but there it is). I don’t think grey is currently a popular color but I know cream/beige is, at least that is the color our stager picked for our new paint. Maybe you could ask the painter what colors he has recently used the most?</p>
<p>Your stager picked beige for an outdoor-ish floor?</p>
<p>Kids room walls are def going cream. Seems like cream would show a lot of dirt but maybe not?</p>
<p>I think grey is timeless for a porch floor. Cream/beige–every speck, leaf, anything will show…</p>