Will A Dishwasher Fit In My Kitchen?

If you are about to renovate your kitchen, now might be the time to change your older appliances or get ones that you have never had before, maybe something like a dishwasher. Perhaps you are already wondering: should I get a dishwasher?

If you are asking yourself whether it will integrate into your kitchen layout, you can rest assured that it almost definitely will. I can say that because kitchens were standardized decades ago although many people still do not realize it.

Regular sized kitchen units and standard sized kitchen appliances are 600 millimetres wide and 600 millimetres deep or long, that is 600 x 600 mm looking down on it. 600 mm is roughly two feet

Then there are double units for particular purposes like the sink unit which is 1200 x 600 mm and half units of 300 x 600 mm and even two-thirds size units of 400 x 600 mm. Standard appliances are 600 x 600 mm and slimline appliances are 400 x 600 mm. Worktops are 600 mm wide.

Builders and professional kitchen remodellers are well aware of this useful information, so when they plan a kitchen wall, they make the wall dividable by 600 mm in length.

Consequently, a kitchen may have walls of 6000 mm (6 metres), 3000 mm (3 metres) or 4000 mm. 4000 mm would give you,say, six standard 600 mm appliances or units and one 400 mm unit or slimline appliance or one 1200 mm sink unit four 600 mm units and one 400 mm slimline appliance.

Given this makes it quite easy to work out whether you can fit in a standard or a slimline dishwasher. If you need to, you can remove one of your existing 600 mm or 400 mm kitchen units and insert the dishwasher in there. The same goes for any other free-standing kitchen appliances such as a cooker or a tumble-dryer.

The chief advantages of owning a dishwasher are threefold: firstly, they save time; secondly, they keep your kitchen looking clean and thirdly they save you having to wash up. Most families eat at least three times a day at home particularly on the weekend, so in these households there is a great deal of washing up to be done.

Washing up and drying could take 20-30 minutes a time, so we are talking of saving a minimum of an hour a day. If you cannot find this time to wash up and dry frequently, it will seem as if there are always dirty dishes in the sink, which is not a good-looking sight and it is a magnet for flies. If you have a dishwasher, you can store the whole day's crockery et cetera in there and keep it for one big wash in the evening.

In conclusion, a lot of people really detest washing and drying dishes. Not everyone does, I know, some find it soothing to day dream while looking out the window, but most people dislike it. With a dishwasher, you will never need to do the washing up again.

As far as design goes, there are plenty of different designs and colours of dishwashers on the market, but you can also get a dummy panel to go with your existing units and screw it to the front of the dishwasher to disguise it.