I concur. Not sure what to expect when we get our new dish washer. I want to put the plug in chord on and not sure what kinda problems I'm going to encounter when the unit we are getting is a wire direct.
Good walk through. Most dishwashers don't use the plug and are instead hard wired into the house. Still pretty much everything applies. I bought a new dishwasher from Home Depot and paid them to install it ($139 for the install, $20 for hauling away the old unit and around $700 for the unit and taxes). The installers had no idea what they were doing and ruined the shut off valves causing a water mess. They ruined it and told me I would need a plumber. They left without installing the new unit and left a wet mess. I cleaned up the mess they left. Got a $10 Shark shut off valve. Turned off the water, removed the leaky shut off valve (the Home Depot guys caused this as they tried to remove a connection that wasn't there as it was a one piece shutoff valve), and replaced the shutoff valve. To remove a one piece push/pull shutoff valve just turn counter clockwise and it will take about 15-20 revolutions to get it off. Once the shut off valve was off I attached new hoses and rewired it. Then I adjusted the height and replaced the unit, turned everything on and it works great. Home Depot customer service said they would refund me the install fee as their people never installed it. Kids learned how to replace a dishwasher and do some repair, emergency plumbing. Maybe I should contact Home Depot corporate and offer my training services to their installers for $300/hr. to show them how to do their job correctly? Thanks for the video - it's videos like this that enable homeowners to fix their appliances and more and save a bunch of money in the process. I called Roto Rooter to see what they would charge to fix the plumbing issue the Home Depot installers caused and then install the dishwasher. They told me never use Home Depot cut rate installers. Roto Rooter's price? $500, possibly more. I did it myself in about an hour and everything is tested and good. Saved a bunch of money and kids know how to do it now too.
Well done. As Tech Know How states most diswashers are hardwired to the house BUT your instructions are exactly what is needed to do the job right; just make sure the power is off!. I am presently in the process of installing my own as I refused to pay Lowe's $190 for delivery and installation.
Oh my God thank you I am an older woman and took on the task in stalling my dish washer (never again) I did GE self satisfaction and wanted to do the last step, the complete videos whizzed through the wiring BUT your video, thank God.
Thank you . Since my husband passed away I been doing fixing things . By the way hubby didn't use the right cord I believe it's to a vacuum cleaner the wires where getting too hot and crumbling . You got to make sure it's the right voltage .
Great video.... to bad my husband refuses to watch any videos. So I'm sitting in my bedroom and after watching your video I can do this. My son and my husband laying on floor for an hour and the wires still aren't connected.
U solved my problem so simply! To the point and no elaborate production! U r my new go to guy for my future electrical questions. And I looove ur accent!😘
If you have a flat power cord and it doesn't have color coded wires, you should see a ribbed side on one of the wires and a smooth side on the other. The ribbed wire is neutral and goes to the white wire. The smooth wire is hot and goes to the black wire. The middle is ground and goes to the green wire or ground screw.
@@lemonsugar26 You have color coded wires so it should be pretty self-explanatory. But black is live and goes to black. White is neutral and goes to white. Bare copper is ground and goes to grounding wire or screw. Although, bare copper for ground usually isn't used for power cords. So it sounds like you have a hardwired setup where your dishwasher is directly wired into the circuit. In this case, you should shut off the power before doing anything else.
Thanks for the video. This was great. One of my wires, the green one came screwed onto the box, I will connect the white and black like you showed us, but what do I do with the green?
It’s giving me hope to be able to install my dishwasher 🤣. I almost have up, I am going try it again if not 😢. I’ll come back and let you know if I was able to do it!
Are the dishwasher wires just *silver colored* copper? Had an electrician buddy tell me to only connect copper to copper, so got real nervous seeing the silver on the dishwasher wires.... but it looks like you're connecting them as well... and no issues? Apologies if this has been asked before. Thank you for sharing ! Really appreciate all you UA-cam Professors out there!
This is easy. Can you PLEASE post a video on the proper way to actually do the rest of this -- i.e. how install the ELECTRICAL OUTLET to replace and old hardwired dishwasher like this with a new one after installing the plug like this, to bring the installation up to modern code (e.g. adjacent cabinet, height from floor, how to maneuver around an existing base cabinet to install the old work box + faceplate and make it flush or recessed with the sink base cabinet to the immediate right, etc.). I can't find this anywhere online!! If you're replacing an old D/W with a new corded one, obviously you need to change it from a hardwired style and install a new electrical box as well. This is only HALF the solution. Where is the rest of the installation and why does no one have this anywhere on UA-cam!???
If you add a plug to it, Does it require its own Breaker? Mine is wired straight to old wires pretty white with a red strip pretty sure its just 110 not don't remember the old colors.
Thank you so much, all the other videos skip over this very quickly and don't show the power cord, it looks like they hardwire directly into the house line. Can you do either or? I would rather always have a plug, is thar possible on every dishwasher
Love your videos, very informative as I plan to install my first dishwasher. I am facing you challenges and you guidance will be greatly appreciated. I do not have plugs for dishwasher and I have been told I need to pull the wire from main circuit which is in basement. Now the basement is finished and seems like a huge task and expensive. What's the best way I can do this?
Yes but how many videos did you have to watch to find out where the other end of the plug went. Absolutely horrifying video that only shows half job. Stop promoting people who are doing half of the job
Please provide names for all the parts you're using and links for where to buy them in the description. It's nearly impossible to find all the tiny little random parts that you need for a simple job like this. Even Home Depot will sell you a universal dishwasher installation kit that is missing things like wire nuts
Hi. I only have the black and white wires with a copper wire. Would that ground still work if I’m swapping out a new dish washer or do I have to re-do the grounding to the black/white and green cord that’s on the new dish washer?
Eric Ousley Jr if the new dishwasher has all 3 match them up. If the new dishwasher has only white and black then ground the green on the lil grounding screw inside the power box and match up the white and black
thanks, 2 questions- are the dw wires aluminum? On my pc they look like you are connecting aluminum to copper...Also what is the size for the knockout hole that you put the bushing thing a ma jig thru? Is it 1/2 inch clamp?
Good video. But you should have mentioned that the wiring from the unit should be 16 gauge and that the circuit to which it is connected should be a dedicated one. Meaning that the dishwasher shouldn’t share its circuit breaker with anything else. Also, I don’t know why it is suggested that the wiring be hardwired into an electric box but, I’ve seen it where a standard plug into a standard outlet is the case. If an outlet is used, it should be a GFCI as it is very close to a water source. Those are the “correct” ways of doing it BUT, I’m in the middle of a kitchen renovation and doing a dishwasher now and I don’t see any reason to not use a plug into a GFCI receptacle and perhaps use the other (unused) receptacle for something else, such as garbage disposal as they’d rarely be on at the same time. That’s what I’M going to do anyway. It’ll be fine. 🥴
So after you wire up the cord, I’m assuming there is a dedicated outlet nearby to plug it into. Does this outlet need to be gfci protected? I’m curious we just bought a dishwasher but haven’t installed it yet
I am an inexperienced house wife and my previous dishwasher kept turning off So I bought a mew one. 5 minutes after the installers left, turned it on, it ran for a minute and kablam it’s shutting off again just like the one I just replaced!🤔 so it’s not my dishwasher I’m assuming since the new one got installed, shut down after a minute, made all my kitchen lights blink as well as my back spotlight. I’ll assume they’re wired on the same wiring. After I kept trying to run the dishwasher it stopped all together and my lights all started working normal again in my kitchen as well as my spotlight outback. So my guess is It’s the connection ( I’m not a professional) But it seems I need to change the dishwasher connection. So I am going to install a plug instead of using the hardwired cord it has now. I hope my dishwasher starts working after 2 years of not having one. I also hope I don’t make my lights go crazy again either and trip the breaker as it did before or burn my house down. If anyone knows what might be causing my problem. Please let me know your opinion before I attempt something I have no idea how to do. Thank you for this great,simple to follow video!!! It makes me feel confident enough to change the hardwiring out myself and I hope it corrects my problem. We shall see Great video!
My new cord has three wires, green for ground and the other two are no color at all with gray outer insulation. How do I know which wire goes to black and which to white ???
There should be a ribbed side on one of the wires. The other wire should be smooth. The ribbed wire is neutral, which goes to the white wire. The smooth wire is hot, which goes to the black wire. That leaves the last wire which is ground and goes to the green screw or wire.
A cord like that usually has a ribbed wire. The ribbed wire goes to the neutral (white) wire. The non ribbed side goes to the hot (black) wire. The middle goes to the ground (green) wire.
@@sarahdickinson9523 Some cords do have colored wires. They're usually enclosed inside a sheath as opposed to the type of cord with the neutral wire ribbed that has the wires visible.
Quick, simple, and not a TON of talking before showing the work!!! Keep that model!!
I concur. Not sure what to expect when we get our new dish washer. I want to put the plug in chord on and not sure what kinda problems I'm going to encounter when the unit we are getting is a wire direct.
Excellent! Fast and simple. Not too much extra talking. Some people love to show off all their knowledge by blabbing on and on.
This was perfect.
Good walk through. Most dishwashers don't use the plug and are instead hard wired into the house. Still pretty much everything applies. I bought a new dishwasher from Home Depot and paid them to install it ($139 for the install, $20 for hauling away the old unit and around $700 for the unit and taxes). The installers had no idea what they were doing and ruined the shut off valves causing a water mess. They ruined it and told me I would need a plumber. They left without installing the new unit and left a wet mess. I cleaned up the mess they left. Got a $10 Shark shut off valve. Turned off the water, removed the leaky shut off valve (the Home Depot guys caused this as they tried to remove a connection that wasn't there as it was a one piece shutoff valve), and replaced the shutoff valve. To remove a one piece push/pull shutoff valve just turn counter clockwise and it will take about 15-20 revolutions to get it off. Once the shut off valve was off I attached new hoses and rewired it. Then I adjusted the height and replaced the unit, turned everything on and it works great. Home Depot customer service said they would refund me the install fee as their people never installed it. Kids learned how to replace a dishwasher and do some repair, emergency plumbing. Maybe I should contact Home Depot corporate and offer my training services to their installers for $300/hr. to show them how to do their job correctly? Thanks for the video - it's videos like this that enable homeowners to fix their appliances and more and save a bunch of money in the process. I called Roto Rooter to see what they would charge to fix the plumbing issue the Home Depot installers caused and then install the dishwasher. They told me never use Home Depot cut rate installers. Roto Rooter's price? $500, possibly more. I did it myself in about an hour and everything is tested and good. Saved a bunch of money and kids know how to do it now too.
they make u pay to haul it away?!?!?
lil hint thow ur old appliences on creigslist free stull and strangers will gladly take it for the scrap
Well done. As Tech Know How states most diswashers are hardwired to the house BUT your instructions are exactly what is needed to do the job right; just make sure the power is off!. I am presently in the process of installing my own as I refused to pay Lowe's $190 for delivery and installation.
Really!? Most are wired to the house!? I've never seen that haha I've lived in 5 different states and all of the dishwashers are plugged
@@kmaezz Yeah i know but in this case I installed my own with help from a friend.
Thank you Even I can do this (65 yr old women) Best video. Simple and straight forward
Oh my God thank you I am an older woman and took on the task in stalling my dish washer (never again) I did GE self satisfaction and wanted to do the last step, the complete videos whizzed through the wiring BUT your video, thank God.
Thank you . Since my husband passed away I been doing fixing things . By the way hubby didn't use the right cord I believe it's to a vacuum cleaner the wires where getting too hot and crumbling . You got to make sure it's the right voltage .
Great video. Simple and easily explained. Thank you.
Fast and simple! Helped me out friend! Thanks!
Great video.... to bad my husband refuses to watch any videos. So I'm sitting in my bedroom and after watching your video I can do this. My son and my husband laying on floor for an hour and the wires still aren't connected.
didn’t have to put your husband out like that.
Quality time doesn't need the solutions immediately. Be grateful and show respect to the man. My goodness 😢
But the real question is, did you do it? Or just tell all of us that you you could do a better job than your husband, and not even do it?👀
Breezy hit the nail on the head
What awg wire is that?
U solved my problem so simply! To the point and no elaborate production! U r my new go to guy for my future electrical questions. And I looove ur accent!😘
Thank you for this video! Helped tremendously on wiring my dishwasher! Thank you!!!
I want to say thank you the only way I can, with a like and a comment 😊
The power cord locator and installation was very helpful.
If you have a flat power cord and it doesn't have color coded wires, you should see a ribbed side on one of the wires and a smooth side on the other. The ribbed wire is neutral and goes to the white wire. The smooth wire is hot and goes to the black wire. The middle is ground and goes to the green wire or ground screw.
Thanks! That's exactly what i have
You're a beautiful beautiful man, yk that?
What about white, black and copper?
@@lemonsugar26 You have color coded wires so it should be pretty self-explanatory. But black is live and goes to black. White is neutral and goes to white. Bare copper is ground and goes to grounding wire or screw.
Although, bare copper for ground usually isn't used for power cords. So it sounds like you have a hardwired setup where your dishwasher is directly wired into the circuit. In this case, you should shut off the power before doing anything else.
Great video! Walks you through step by step the process, very easy to follow!
Thanks 🙏 just wanted in time, got my new dishwasher and tryna connect.
Great video thanks! Much more detailed than most !
Thanks for the very clear instructions.
Thanks very much.👍
You are the best.👌
Thank you this was very helpful video
Great job thank you saving me 75 bucks
This was so helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video. This was great. One of my wires, the green one came screwed onto the box, I will connect the white and black like you showed us, but what do I do with the green?
Awesome, thanks 🙂🙂
Thank you your video was very helpful I just wired up my general electric dishwasher and It works like a champ not bad for my first time 👍 thank you
Thanks!!! This is exactly what I needed.
It’s giving me hope to be able to install my dishwasher 🤣. I almost have up, I am going try it again if not 😢. I’ll come back and let you know if I was able to do it!
Are the dishwasher wires just *silver colored* copper? Had an electrician buddy tell me to only connect copper to copper, so got real nervous seeing the silver on the dishwasher wires.... but it looks like you're connecting them as well... and no issues? Apologies if this has been asked before. Thank you for sharing ! Really appreciate all you UA-cam Professors out there!
Thank you!
Thank you, that was very helpful.
Good job
Thank you. 😊
This is easy. Can you PLEASE post a video on the proper way to actually do the rest of this -- i.e. how install the ELECTRICAL OUTLET to replace and old hardwired dishwasher like this with a new one after installing the plug like this, to bring the installation up to modern code (e.g. adjacent cabinet, height from floor, how to maneuver around an existing base cabinet to install the old work box + faceplate and make it flush or recessed with the sink base cabinet to the immediate right, etc.). I can't find this anywhere online!!
If you're replacing an old D/W with a new corded one, obviously you need to change it from a hardwired style and install a new electrical box as well. This is only HALF the solution. Where is the rest of the installation and why does no one have this anywhere on UA-cam!???
Thanks from guatemala,
If you add a plug to it, Does it require its own Breaker? Mine is wired straight to old wires pretty white with a red strip pretty sure its just 110 not don't remember the old colors.
Thank you so much, all the other videos skip over this very quickly and don't show the power cord, it looks like they hardwire directly into the house line.
Can you do either or? I would rather always have a plug, is thar possible on every dishwasher
EXCELLENT!
What if the exposed wires aren’t the same size will it affect anything?
What size is the connector for the box? And my instructions say metallic Home Depot sells non metallic is that ok!?! Thanks!
Good
Thanks for the help..
Thanks
Thanks!
Love your videos, very informative as I plan to install my first dishwasher. I am facing you challenges and you guidance will be greatly appreciated. I do not have plugs for dishwasher and I have been told I need to pull the wire from main circuit which is in basement. Now the basement is finished and seems like a huge task and expensive. What's the best way I can do this?
you should have an outlet under the sink for disposal. you should be able to plug it in that outlet
@@dicanelectric unfortunately there is no outlet
@@harshalk776 if you don't have an outlet you will need to hardwire into a box
Yes but how many videos did you have to watch to find out where the other end of the plug went. Absolutely horrifying video that only shows half job.
Stop promoting people who are doing half of the job
Is it ok to cut an extension cord and use it for the dishwasher instead of the cord that it came with? Mine is is too short
Please provide names for all the parts you're using and links for where to buy them in the description. It's nearly impossible to find all the tiny little random parts that you need for a simple job like this. Even Home Depot will sell you a universal dishwasher installation kit that is missing things like wire nuts
If I dont cut the plastic more to get more cable as you show, and the plastic gets mixed in the wire nut, would that cause a short/electrical fire ?
Hi. I only have the black and white wires with a copper wire. Would that ground still work if I’m swapping out a new dish washer or do I have to re-do the grounding to the black/white and green cord that’s on the new dish washer?
Eric Ousley Jr if the new dishwasher has all 3 match them up. If the new dishwasher has only white and black then ground the green on the lil grounding screw inside the power box and match up the white and black
The uninsulated copper wire should be an earthing wire.
thanks, 2 questions- are the dw wires aluminum? On my pc they look like you are connecting aluminum to copper...Also what is the size for the knockout hole that you put the bushing thing a ma jig thru? Is it 1/2 inch clamp?
Good video. But you should have mentioned that the wiring from the unit should be 16 gauge and that the circuit to which it is connected should be a dedicated one. Meaning that the dishwasher shouldn’t share its circuit breaker with anything else.
Also, I don’t know why it is suggested that the wiring be hardwired into an electric box but, I’ve seen it where a standard plug into a standard outlet is the case.
If an outlet is used, it should be a GFCI as it is very close to a water source.
Those are the “correct” ways of doing it BUT, I’m in the middle of a kitchen renovation and doing a dishwasher now and I don’t see any reason to not use a plug into a GFCI receptacle and perhaps use the other (unused) receptacle for something else, such as garbage disposal as they’d rarely be on at the same time. That’s what I’M going to do anyway.
It’ll be fine. 🥴
Are you in Canada or the US?
did you have to get a power cable or did yours come with one?
Why is my green ground under a screw raw attched to the frame?
Are we turning off the power?
So after you wire up the cord, I’m assuming there is a dedicated outlet nearby to plug it into. Does this outlet need to be gfci protected? I’m curious we just bought a dishwasher but haven’t installed it yet
No it doesn't need to be GFCI.
Yes it needs to be Gfci protected. 210.8 (D) Nec 2017
I am an inexperienced house wife and my previous dishwasher kept turning off
So I bought a mew one. 5 minutes after the installers left, turned it on, it ran for a minute and kablam it’s shutting off again just like the one I just replaced!🤔 so it’s not my dishwasher I’m assuming since the new one got installed, shut down after a minute, made all my kitchen lights blink as well as my back spotlight. I’ll assume they’re wired on the same wiring. After I kept trying to run the dishwasher it stopped all together and my lights all started working normal again in my kitchen as well as my spotlight outback.
So my guess is
It’s the connection ( I’m not a professional)
But it seems I need to change the dishwasher connection. So I am going to install a plug instead of using the hardwired cord it has now. I hope my dishwasher starts working after 2 years of not having one. I also hope I don’t make my lights go crazy again either and trip the breaker as it did before or burn my house down. If anyone knows what might be causing my problem. Please let me know your opinion before I attempt something I have no idea how to do. Thank you for this great,simple to follow video!!! It makes me feel confident enough to change the hardwiring out myself and I hope it corrects my problem. We shall see
Great video!
Amazing ty
Wat about when i open the e box no green wire or ground there... where i can found the green or ground dire...the only 1 i see l s
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What if the dishwasher doesn’t have a green cord?
My new cord has three wires, green for ground and the other two are no color at all with gray outer insulation. How do I know which wire goes to black and which to white ???
There should be a ribbed side on one of the wires. The other wire should be smooth. The ribbed wire is neutral, which goes to the white wire. The smooth wire is hot, which goes to the black wire. That leaves the last wire which is ground and goes to the green screw or wire.
What was the Gauge of the wire used?
What if dishwasher only has two wires ?
My dishwasher don't have the green wire
What size is the cable connector?
Est about le i open the box and no green grind site there
I did everything the same way, dishwasher doesn't turn on :(
Turn off the freaking background music
Why mask your instruction video with annoying music. It was really distracting. Thanks for making the video.
Where is the receptacle ?
You've only shown half of the job. What about plugging it in.
Mine has 1 color and the other 2 are black :(
what if your power cable has all 3 wires no color, just silver wire
Get a proper plug that shows the colors.
A cord like that usually has a ribbed wire. The ribbed wire goes to the neutral (white) wire. The non ribbed side goes to the hot (black) wire. The middle goes to the ground (green) wire.
@@tier3rd375 I see the ribbed wire. The other is smooth. Thanks for that info. Why not just make them black and white.??
@@sarahdickinson9523 Some cords do have colored wires. They're usually enclosed inside a sheath as opposed to the type of cord with the neutral wire ribbed that has the wires visible.
Hard to focus with that music.
Music was very unnecessary.
I cant even do this with the video i just threw it out
❤❤❤🙏👍🇨🇦
Those were barley tightened
My house burnt down, thanks.
Thank you!
This was exactly what we needed! Thank you!
You're welcome
Thanks