A dishwasher in a narrow city flat kitchen with painted paneling and a single run of units.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Dishwasher repair in Marina.

Apartments in buildings from between the wars often have a dishwasher that was added long after the kitchen was laid out, sometimes an 18-inch model squeezed beside the sink. Where a flat sits above another, a slow leak under the tub is a problem for two households rather than one.

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What Marina does
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Before development the Marina's ground was bay shallows, tidal pools, sand dunes and marshland, and much of it today stands on landfill.

When the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake broke the water mains here, firefighters pumped water straight from the bay.

After more than 9,000 site inspections, the SFPUC estimated only a 1% chance of lead in customer-owned service lines in the city.

Academy of Art University keeps a student housing building at the neighborhood's southern edge on Lombard Street.

Also known as Marina District.

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Small kitchens

Small kitchens get 18-inch dishwashers, or none at all until someone retrofits one beside the sink. In a narrow tub every inch of rack is used, and a single loose utensil or a shard of glass can stop a spray arm or jam the pump.

On the water

Salt air travels further into a house than people expect. On the coast, dishwasher door springs, hinge cables and exposed screws rust over the years, and a door that slams open is more often a corroded spring than a worn hinge.

Tower living

A dishwasher on a high floor sits above someone else's ceiling. A drip from a supply hose or a worn tub seal that would only warp a cabinet in a house can reach the unit below, which is why a leak up here is handled as an emergency rather than an annoyance.