Kitchen mystery - installing dishwasher

Jalapeno

Seems like a "Get a man in" situation to me - to cap off the heating pipes (I agree that's what they look like @steveb), and to lay on H&C and drain for dishwasher.

KrisGee

Sounds like too much hassle really. And it all meant to be an easy job! Really wanted to avoid hiring someone, was already quoted 90 quid just for fitting the dishwasher in cupboard space and connecting it  to water supply and waste outlet, something I can do myself easily and now this - probably same if not higher amount of cash to get rid of those pipes.
Another reason to move, something we were considering for quite a while, especially now when another baby Gee is about to join us in June and missus is threatening me I will have to give up my mancave. Never!;)
Thanks again for all advice.

Boromedic

You could just leave them where they are, they're probably too low to effect the dishwasher going into the space. Plus they've caused you no issues so far and you didn't even know they were there.

Then just splice into your cold water supply under the sink, (most, if not all washers and dishwashers are cold fill only these days due to getting low energy use certification). Then fit a spigot waste for the dishwasher. Easy enough to do yourself with a compression fitting. Then if you do move just take the dishwasher with you. 

TTony

KrisGee said:

Sounds like too much hassle really. And it all meant to be an easy job! Really wanted to avoid hiring someone, was already quoted 90 quid just for fitting the dishwasher in cupboard space and connecting it  to water supply and waste outlet, something I can do myself easily and now this - probably same if not higher amount of cash to get rid of those pipes.
Another reason to move, 

Moving might be slightly more expensive, and just a little more hassle, than getting  those pipes dealt with

KrisGee

It's true but this just adds to the list of reasons to move. We didn't have two kids when we moved in 5 years ago

Blaendulais

KrisGee said:

It's true but this just adds to the list of reasons to move. We didn't have two kids when we moved in 5 years ago

I gave up my mancave to my first daughter.  We moved pretty quickly after that

ICBM

Blaendulais said:

KrisGee said:

It's true but this just adds to the list of reasons to move. We didn't have two kids when we moved in 5 years ago

I gave up my mancave to my first daughter.  We moved pretty quickly after that

I gave up mine to my second daughter. After that we built an extension with a purpose-designed mancave on the ground floor .

KrisGee

Decided to install it even further away and use 3.5m extension hoses available as spares from most dishwasher manufacturers. I've got another space available for it I didn't think about using as it's quite far from water supply but from what I've read there's nothing against this so hopefully it'll end this nightmare.