A dishwasher in an inner-city kitchen in an older house, updated fronts on older bones.

Harris County, Houston

Dishwasher repair in West University.

A new two-story house on an old lot usually has a current dishwasher on new plumbing, while the few original houses left still have one added to a kitchen from another era. The two cases fail differently, and the age of the drain line matters as much as the age of the machine.

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What West University does
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West University Place pumps groundwater from two city-owned wells that draw on the Gulf Coast Aquifer about 560 feet below the surface.

It also buys surface water from Houston's East Water Purification Plant #3, which treats water from Lake Houston, and aims for an even mix of the two.

With lots typically about 50 by 120 feet, the Georgian houses that replaced its bungalows were described as lot-hugging.

The Harris County Flood Control District widened and deepened the city's drainage ditch in 1954 and lined it with concrete.

Also known as West University Place.

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Family houses

A family house runs the dishwasher once or twice a day, every day. At that pace the filter, the spray arms and the drain pump do the most work, and most calls here are about something that slowly clogged rather than suddenly broke.

Mixed housing

Older dishwashers here tend to have mechanical timers and simpler parts that are still worth fixing, while newer ones rely on sensors and electronic controls, so the diagnosis changes from one door to the next.

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.