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Haier HDT18PA Space Saver Compact Dishwasher
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List Price: $199.99
Special Price: $216.69
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Haier
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Kitchen
Brand: Haier
EAN: 0688057190419
Feature: Compact, countertop dishwasher in enameled-steel cabinet
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Haier
Manufacturer: Haier
Model: HDT18PA
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Haier
Studio: Haier
Warranty: 1
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Features
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Compact, countertop dishwasher in enameled-steel cabinet
Holds four full placesettings plus flatware
Three wash cycles, optional drying--with beep signal
Connects to sink faucet (connector included), drains into sink
17-1/4 inches wide, 21 inches high, 19-3/4 inches deep
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Editorial Reviews:
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Fits 4 Place Settings / Electronic Touch Pad Controls / 2 Level Wash System / 3 Automatic Wash Cycles / Overfill Safety Control / Automatic Fault Alarm Detergent Dispenser Dimensions - Height 21 1/4 x Width 17 3/8 x Depth 19 1/2 inches
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Mezza-metz....
Comment: Not bad, not bad. At least I don't have to wash dishes by hand anymore. After having to be shown how to attach the input hose to a faucet so the water source doesn't spray all over the place, thanks to a incomplete manual that doesn't mention how to do this, the thing performed beautifully, taking an enormous amount of pressure and not leaking at all! However, the washing results are typical electronic dishwasher mediocre: The silverware has to be rinsed off, so do the glasses and anything that was particularly dirty when you put it in there. The detergent reservoir is a little indent in the door, not a well that dispenses the detergent as needed...and you don't get two jet sprayers in the machine...just one!
While it DOES get the majority of the dishes clean enough to eat off of, and takes filthy eating-ware and makes it usable again, this unit was a MAJOR disappointment, considering that it costs 2/3 of what a full bore basic unit would have cost! The sorry thing is, the market's kinda short on units like this, even though the need is definitely out there, and ALL the units are in this price range or higher and don't vary that much in design or what they offer, manufacturer to manufacturer.
Guess at this point, it's up to me to find a better detergent....
Customer Rating:
Summary: CAN'T live without it!
Comment: I love, love, LOVE this dishwasher! It works extremely well. I purchased this Jan 9, 2009 and use it at LEAST once a day everyday, and it is still going strong. I rinse all my dishes well, cram as much as I can in it and run it. If I have an unusually large amount of dishes, I'll just run it twice in a row to get them all done. It's just my toddler and me so we usually only have about one load of dishes a day.
I would take this over a regular dishwasher any day! My mother and my father and stepmom have dishwashers; the regular, permanent fixed into your cabinet kind. They are MAYBE just over twice as big as this wonderful little guy, and they take over TWO HOURS for each load! This haier dishwasher takes 34 minutes. That means you could wash almost 4 loads in this in the same amount of time as a regular dishwasher. That's A LOT more dishes in comparison! And they come out just as clean!
Anyone that gave it a bad review is crazy. It is simply a miracle.
(For example of space, I wash 3 or 4 of my daughter's plastic insulated straw cups, 2 glasses, 2 coffee mugs, about 6 saucers and 3 plates, 2 of my daughter's small plastic bowls, 4 regular "cereal" bowls, 5 spoons, 5 knives, 5 forks, and maybe some butter knives and plastic baby silverware, and if I have any dirty serving utensils or spatulas, that kind of stuff, I can fit 2 or 3 with everything else listed here! Seriously! This thing rocks!)
Customer Rating:
Summary: I love it!
Comment: Just used my dishwasher for the first time today, and so far I absolutely love it! I gave it a real workout, too; my dirty dishes had been sitting in the sink for a LONG time. Some had been rinsed or soaked first, so I washed them on the regular cycle. The rest had food dried on them (I know, YUCK!) so they got the heavy-duty cycle. Both loads came out sparkling, even though our water pressure is only so-so. This is the first portable dishwasher I've ever tried, so I don't know how it compares to similar models, but I wish I'd bought this one a long time ago.
The only problem I had was figuring out how to hook up the water inlet hose to the faucet of the kitchen sink. There was nothing in the instructions about how to do it, and it seemed as though the enclosed adapter didn't fit my older-style faucet. Went to a plumbing supply store thinking I'd have to buy an adapter for the adapter, but the nice gentleman at the counter just took the one that came with the dishwasher, popped the gasket off the top, and said "I think it'll fit now." (Would have been really embarassing except that the clerk at the hardware store I went to first couldn't figure it out either.) Anyway, it did indeed hook up quite easily once that top gasket was removed.
It should be noted that there is only one spray arm (at the bottom), not two as I believe was stated in the product description.
As an aside, I didn't have a place on the counter where the dishwasher would fit, so I put casters on a "breakfast bar" table instead. Even though the casters are really small (due to the size of the table legs), the table holds and rolls the fully-loaded, running dishwasher with no trouble at all. Because the drain (water outlet) hose has to span the distance from table to sink, I took a large twist-tie and fastened the outlet hose it to the inlet hose as a precaution. It did the trick and kept the outgoing water headed down the drain.
The only question that remains is how this appliance will hold up over time, which seems to be variable. If I only get a year out of mine, I'll still consider it well worth the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: GREAT LITTLE MACHINE!
Comment: I recently had to replace this machine... after nearly FIIIIIVE YEEEARS of SERVICE!!! Given that I paid less than $300.00 for the thing to start with, it paid for itself after the first year (I REALLY hate doing dishes).
Now, this is NOT a GE Potscrubber (as I've had to tell my housekeeper). It does help to soak your dishes in hot soapy water and load them -- correctly -- into the machine.
Treat it well, use it right, and it'll serve you well.
One pro... it's tall enough to do deep stock pots (the replacement dishwasher is not).
On the subject of the "new" dishwasher (which mostly takes two hours to do a cycle), this one will do a cycle fairly quickly. Recommend keeping the tap on "hot".
Customer Rating:
Summary: Setup was fine, operation is fine, but too small.
Comment: To preface this review, I got this unit used and it is being used in a two person apartment.
The product came with a decent manual, not the best, but certainly not the nightmare some people described. To give an idea of how much info it contains, it has 24 pages for each of the three languages - English, French, Spanish. The description on how to hook it up isn't entirely clear, as the illustration for the sink isn't like any sink I've seen in the US. Nonetheless, with some common sense it shouldn't be that difficult to figure out. You only have three things to worry about - 1) the rubber hose which brings water into the unit, 2) the drain hose which dumps water out of the unit, and 3) the power cord. I had to go to Lowe's to get a sink adapter, since what came with the unit didn't fit the threads on the faucet. I think maybe most people have problems at first because they don't realize the nozzle part can unscrew from the faucet.
Operation is pretty easy - turn on the water supply, plug it in, press the power button, press whatever wash cycle you want. I think the vented dry button on my unit is broken since pressing it doesn't seem to change anything. Setup and take down is simple, it maybe takes a minute or two to screw/unscrew everything. At first I was having problems securing the drain hose, once it dumped water all over the kitchen floor and I spent a good half an hour wiping it up. I came up with a solution where I secured the drain hose to the rubber hose with rubber bands, thus insuring that the drain hose drained into the sink and not the floor.
This thing does a good job of cleaning the dishes, so long as everything is properly loaded, but there's the problem - loading it. The problem I have with the unit is not just its size, but the design of its interior. Some of the spokes are so close together it's plain impractical. You can fit plates in there, so long as they're not very big (I have a lot of plates that don't fit in there), but the design isn't very friendly to bowls bigger than a small cereal bowl.
For two adults who basically use dishes/tupperware for all three meals, it's becoming clear that this dishwasher is inadequate for our needs. It's simply too small. I think this dishwasher would be a better fit for a single person who maybe eats out more often and doesn't do much cooking.
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