ISE Classic Supreme Dishwasher

[sudsmaster]

Noise is an issue

Noise is something of an issue since the kitchen area is open to the family room with no doorway, and there are no closing doors to the living room, dining room. Plus the bedrooms are close by.

Currently I have a modern Bosch, which replaced a noisy modern Frigidaire. The Bosch is pretty quiet but I can still hear it draining (mainly through the air gap). The Bosch works fine, but I'm interested to see how the ISE washes and if the cycles are shorter (the Bosch usually takes about 100 minutes per load).

Unfortunately due to a built-up floor in front of the cutout for the dishwasher, removing and installing units in this location is a bit of a chore. I have shimmed up the "pit" where the dishwasher sits, with a sheet of plywood, but it's still lower than the surrounding flooring (on my list is to rip out all the layers of kitchen floor including 1/2" of particle board and bring the level back down to where it should be, and extend the flooring under the dishwasher area).

What I should so is to modify the cabinets in the patio kitchen to accept a built-in dishwasher... someday!

 

[tomturbomatic]

It is a beautiful machine. You can add more insulation, especially on the back of the lower panel and kick plate like the newer KitchenAids have. It can easily take a 2 or 3 inch thick piece of fiberglass behind the kick plate and that much on the back of the lower panel; you had to push the lower panel into position to line up the screw holes when installing the machines when they were new. If noise is a problem through the walls and floor, I found some fantastic sound insulation when I was searching for something else on the Internet. If I bookmarked it and can find it, I will share it. Slabs of acoustical dampener are sold in auto supply stores. Removing the outer door panel and gluing some of that on the outside of the door makes a big difference. Often the undercounter opening will allow room for an additional insulation blanket over the tank. You can take unfaced fiberglass to the floor at the back of the dishwasher without interfering with the dry fan.

 

[sudsmaster]

There already is a couple inches of fiberglass on the back of the kick plate and the lower panel. And lots of it wrapped around outside of the tub (foil backed).