What's up everyone? Welcome to The Durbin Compound! If we're meeting for the first
time, my name is Devin Durbin. I'm here to bring you the tools, tips, and tricks
to make you more self-sufficient. So today on the channel we're talking about how to
remount a dishwasher. Maybe you or a loved one has stepped on the door or otherwise
mangled the brackets that are underneath the countertop and you need to re-fasten them.
I'm going to show you just how to do it and maybe a trick you didn't know. So stay tuned!
All right guys, so at the top of your screen here you can see where there are two mounting brackets
that are underneath the countertop. So sometimes if you have a granite or stone countertop there might
be an anchor up here, but there are other mounting options that we'll go over here in a second. If you
have a setup like this, that has the two brackets above, this is what we're going to do. I have a
Phillips screwdriver. We're going to take out each of these brackets. I'm going to zoom in here,
so that you can see exactly what I'm doing. So as you loosen these screws down and out of the way
here, they should be relatively short screws, and you just plop them down out of here. So
once you take them out, you can set them off to the side for now. Now I always recommend when
doing this on a countertop, you want to use just a screwdriver. Don't be using a drill
or an impact for fear of stripping these out. So you only get a couple tries on this. So
if your dishwasher is leaning forward when you open it like this, it's because you've messed up
the brackets up here. Now these are just cheap metal brackets and they're easily bendable. You
can see how one is bent pretty badly. And sometimes they get mangled up and bent out of the way. So you
want to make sure that they're bent just like this. So let's change a camera angle and I'm going to
show you exactly how they fit into the top of the dishwasher. Okay now that we have revealed the top
of the dishwasher, you can see exactly how these fit into place. So if you can see the slot here
there are two slots on the left and right. You want your bracket to kind of look like
this. So once it goes in here, it's going to fit in your slot like this, and then
the tang of this bracket is going to stick out. Now you might have a shorter bracket if it is a
shallower mounted dishwasher, but they should all be relatively the same. So what we're going to do
is slide it in and down, so that it sits in the channel, just like so.
I hope that is illustrated well on camera. So once you have got this into place,
you've probably mangled this or twisted this up because it is cheap
pot metal, but you know once you've got it into place you can slide the dishwasher back in
and ensure that it is is flush with the edge of your counter or your cabinets. Now once you've
got that back in, you can put your screws back up in the top here. I will do that now.
All right, so once you've got that back into place you can see that it is nice and rigid.
So if you want an extra, you know, an extra precautionary thing or want some extra boost,
there are some screws here in the side. Let's show you these. Okay, so I've already removed
the little plastic cover here, but what this does is expose a little joint in here where
you can mount a screw. So this is going to mount directly into the side of your cabinet and will
keep it from falling out on both sides, a little extra level of precaution. So if you're
having some trouble with your brackets, you can simply just sink a screw into your cabinet here
onto the left and right. Now with this I recommend a fine-threaded screw, and you want a short screw,
so as to not go into your cabinet area. So we're not using three inch lag bolts here, just a small
one inch fine-threaded screw will get you going. All right, so if there was any question
as to what the little plastic piece looks like, it looks just like this and then you can pop it
out with your screwdriver. A little flat head screwdriver will get it to pop out and then
you would just mount your screw right into the side of the cabinet here.
And there's nothing excessive about that. You don't want to really drive it in too hard.
Now I'm going to put a little extra on this because it wasn't all the way tight. All right!
And it is done! And you can see just how tight that mounted it. Now of course you see
how much cabinet we have here. You want to make sure your one inch screw does not go through. So
after you're done, just pop your plastic piece on. You can go ahead and close your dishwasher.
You have just mounted it into place and made it bulletproof.
All right guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video! I hope that it helps someone out out there.
Give me a thumbs up, or a thumbs down. Whatever you guys are into. If you haven't clicked subscribed
already, click that subscribe button and I guess we'll see you guys in the next video.