[supafamous]

Originally Posted by bcrdukes

@supafamous - What was the issue with you F&P again? I recall you posting about it somewhere but wasn't sure if it was this thread or not.

We were thinking of getting a F&P for our lower level renovation but a few things detracted from the decision:

1. Getting one was tough due to supply chain issues (at least in the GTA, of all places)
2. They were only selling at MSRP with no discount / negotiation room
3. Would have been an outlier compared to the dishwasher in the main kitchen; The space below is meant for our home office

The idea of having a dish drawer would have been a neat, novel idea given our use case and size factor, but after thinking about it, this isn't going to be our forever home so we settled for whatever we found was cheap and worked. I don't expect to run the dishwasher during business hours.

For the money the cleaning performance was pretty terrible - I'd say that we had dishes come out dirty at least every second wash and would regularly have to rewash entire loads b/c there was still so much food on the dishes. The drawers seemed like a cool idea (my wife was stoked) but it wasn't really that useful as it made loading larger bowls a real pain (the organisers were shit). The lack of a cutlery tray (3rd rack) also meant cutlery didn't clean well either. Finally, it wasn't actually as quiet as advertised - it's rated at 45db but that was only true during the slowest parts of the wash cycle. It was easily the worst dishwasher I've ever used in terms of performance and usability.

It came with our house and we gave up on it after about 3 months and sold it for close to retail to someone who came from Victoria to get it (along with some other appliances).