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Do you know if they managed to make the arch self-supporting, or did they have to glue or otherwise harm the books in the process? This would be amazing if a true arch, but I imagine it must have taken ages to get right! Wow.

I bought the #8 SPT (Supentown) last fall when I moved from a modern apartment with a full-size dishwasher to a former mansion built around 1900 that was later subdivided into a dozen apartments. The kitchen in my 1BR is tiny and has almost no counterspace. I would have loved a standalone to wheel back and forth, but there was simply nowhere to put it! So I bought this SPT online from Home Depot (they delived it for free). It was well worth the investment! When I divided the cost by the minimum length of my lease -- well, I spend that much per month on far more trivial items than a dishwasher.

The dishwasher is Energy Star rated, for what it's worth, and I think they estimate that it adds about $7 to your electric bill per year. Many of these countertop units do not have true drying cycles, so they do not eat up that much electricity, but they dry very rapidly if you just open the unit and pull the tray out when the cycle finishes. I think the dishwasher actually saves water, because I run it maybe twice a week when it's full.

It takes up my only countertop space, so that is annoying, but as another commenter said, that is where a basket of dirty dishes would pile up otherwise. I'd much rather the dirty dishes be stacked neatly and out of sight inside the dishwasher.

Installation is not difficult. I am not particularly handy but was able to do it myself.

I can fit some small pots and pans into the unit, and it cleans them well -- just depends on how full it is of dishes as to whether or not they will fit. It does have a pots & pans cycle.

If you've been on the fence, get one of these! This was the most helpful purchase I made for my new apartment. You won't regret it.

Thanks for this post, AT. It was hard to find good reviews of these countertop units when I was looking for one -- it felt a little bit like flying blind trying to pick one out!

Wow, this made a HUGE difference. How hard are adhesive linoleum tiles to clean?