“Clogs are clogs,” he muttered, reading the label. It said: For sinks, tubs, showers. It did not say: For dishwashers. But Leo was a man of initiative, not instructions.
Just because you can pour something down a hole doesn't mean you should. A dishwasher is not a sink. And chemistry always collects its fee.
Carla pointed to the sink. “You’ve got copper pipes under there, right? Drano doesn’t care about your clog. It cares about metal. You’ve probably got pinhole leaks forming in your pipes as we speak. In a week, your kitchen ceiling downstairs is going to look like a watercolor painting.” can you pour drano in a dishwasher
By the time he got the mop, the damage was done.
Not from a person. From the machine. A low, grinding shriek like a metal cat being pulled through a keyhole. Then came the foam. Thick, white, angry foam pushed past the rubber seal of the dishwasher door, hissing as it hit the kitchen floor. It smelled like a swimming pool that had been set on fire. “Clogs are clogs,” he muttered, reading the label
Carla sighed. “You know what you actually did? You turned a $200 pump replacement into a $1,500 full machine demolition. And that’s not even the bad part.”
Leo nodded, sheepish.
Leo’s stomach dropped. “What’s the bad part?”