removed dishwasher question

[Larry T.]

Hi everyone,

We removed dishwashers as the consensus and my experience is that they are too much trouble for our units in a low-income area. So in re-tiling the kitchen, the tile guy tiled over the raised area that the dishwasher sat on. He didn't remove the plywood that was under the dishwasher, but tiled over it so now the tile is raised up 3/4 inch or so from the rest of the kitchen tile. He is putting one of those transition metal things there to connect the two heights. The higher area is only the square area that is right under the cabinets where the dishwasher was. Do you all think that this will look decent? Or am I just projecting what I would not want in my own kitchen onto our 4-plex:) He is saying that to even it out would have meant pulling out the other wood and that something about that wood or removing it or cutting it out from how it is in there currently would have made it uneven in another way. Also that there would have been difficulty in getting in to cut it right. I have never done this so not sure exactly what that means.

We plan to insert one of those little rods that you can hang a little curtain on to close of the area where the dishwasher was so they can use that area for storage (that would not show behind the curtain.)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Marc Freislinger]

I would have been amazed at the way Mike speaks about tenants if I'd found this place before working in the multifamily industry.

It's amazing how many people break their bi-fold closet doors, garbage disposals, etc. We have dozens of people every season that can't figure out how to change the thermostat, and tons of people that break windows while trying to open/close them.

I'm with him. Remove everything that you don't want to be fixing every other week.