dishwasher high loop - YouTube

Hey Guys! Matthew with Freedom Home Services here!

Hope you are doing well and surviving the the

nice cold weather we've been having lately!

I wanted to give you a little homeowner maintenance tip

and really it's just a way to eliminate one more inspection item

I've been finding these pretty frequently in the homes that I inspect.

So it's concerning a dishwasher "high loop."

And I'll kind of show you here.

I'm underneath my kitchen sink and you can see

that there is a dishwasher drain line

and that's a water supply line going over to my dishwasher

Now dishwashers actually come with, or should come with,

(you can't really check it once the dishwasher is installed)

There is a loop where the run the drain line on the side of the dishwasher.

So there's actually a loop there, bu

according to the manufacturer, you're supposed to have an additional high loop

or an air gap,

and those are pretty nasty - you don't want to install those.

They actually come up on top of your sink.

Which I don't even know why they would make such a thing.

But in any case, put a high loop in. That's the easiest.

You can see here I've already done a little bit of prep work.

One thing that you want to make sure that you have

is making sure your drain line is installed

on the house side of your P trap.

if you put your drain line back here...

you're gonna get sewer gases that are gonna

come out through your dishwasher

and you're gonna wanna know why every time you

open the dishwasher dishwasher door that it smells like sewage.

And that's no bueno.

So definitely put it on this side.

You can put it in any number of different configurations

You can hook them up directly to the garbage disposal

That's totally acceptable as well.

As long as it's on the house side of the P trap.

So that's where there drain line goes and

that would be the sewer side of the P trap.

The next thing you want to do is just get a zip tie

as I've done here already

I actually went a did a little bit extra to get this excess supply line out of the way

and zip tied it together.

The manufacturer wants you to have a high loop as high

as possible close to the bottom of the countertop

So fortunately some counters have some extra blocking

that has been left by the installer, which is fine.

Take an extra screw that you've got laying around the house,

screw it in, and pretty simple...

I'm gonna try to do this here

one- handed...

run this up...

and hang it...

off of the screw.

Sorry for the shaky video!

Of course, I'm not a small man LOL

and this is a small space.

So here we go!

So you've got that there

kind of blurry the way you can see it now,

zoom back out here. So now you see

So now you've got this diswasher line that

is zip tied up. You've got a nice little high loop there.

It could probably be a little bit higher, but

then I'd be putting a lot of tension on the way that this drain line goes in.

It was installed before I moved in here.

In any case, very simple to do.

And it will take off one item from

your inspection report...at least if I inspect your house.

And so that's always a good thing.

So I hope that helped! And stay tuned for more videos!

If you would like to have any information

about a home inspection, feel free to give me a call (803.693.5927)

Also if you'd like to have any information on some

helpful tips and tricks for common household problems

or things that you may have seen on an inspection report,

or just general DIY stuff

I can probably help you with some simple things

I'm happy to do that!

You guys take care and we'll see ya soon!