Dishwasher water consumption

Dishwashers are already far from new to home appliances. But they are not in every apartment. The acquisition of such a "home assistant" raises the natural question of how expedient and profitable the purchase will be. Saving time is an attractive factor, but how much water does a dishwasher spend?

What determines the expense

Dishwasher water consumption is not a fixed indicator. Consumption directly depends on the modification, additional functions and water consumption class. All variety of existing models can be divided into three categories.

1. Compact desktop machines low load. Such models consume from 7 to 10 liters per cycle.
2. Average household: recessed narrow or full-size, detached.Narrow models have a smaller load capacity, from 6 to 8 sets, full-size can hold up to 14 sets of dishes. This technique will consume from 10 to 14 liters per wash cycle.
3. Large units, designed for large loads, which are used in restaurants, cafes and canteens. Depending on the volume of loading, such dishwashers consume from 20 to 25 liters.

Water saving

If we consider the use of a dishwasher for domestic purposes, then we can dwell on the first two categories: compact desktop models and medium ones (here we must take into account both narrow and full-sized ones).

Thus, the water consumption of a household dishwasher will vary from 7 to 14 liters per wash.

When hand washing the same amount of dishes by hand, the cumulative consumption of hot and cold water will be from 70 to 100 liters. As a result, according to approximate calculations, an ordinary dishwasher will consume 7 times less water than the most experienced housewife.

You can transfer all data to monetary equivalent. As an example, consider a domestic model with a maximum consumption of 14 liters. To consume 1 cubic meter, the machine needs to work 72 cycles - this is about 2.4 dishwashing per day.The cost of 1 cubic meter of cold water in each region is different, for example, in Novosibirsk the tariff is 16.5 rubles. If you purchase a more economical model or a premium class car (which, by the way, with a large load, have low water consumption), the numbers will be even lower. Calculate the cost of hand washing everyone can, in the presence of counters. The above are average data from people reviews.

The term "set of dishes" means a set of cutlery necessary for dinner to one person - 6 items.

Dishwasher Benefits

The overall design of all models is similar: two or three baskets for dishes, different trays for cutlery. All modern models are equipped heating shadow. Thus, the presence or absence of hot water will not affect the result.

This can already be attributed to the advantageous benefits, because the tariff for cold water is several times lower.

Dishwashers installed filter elementsthrough which the same volume of water is used several times. To achieve this result manually is very difficult. Some models are equipped with a "half load" or "auto mode",the wash cycle may not change over time, but the water consumption will decrease by about a quarter.

In addition, there is still water consumption machines:

• highly economical;
• medium economical;
• low cost.

By class standards, they are labeled A, B, and C, respectively. Most models, of course, go under class "A", but when choosing a suitable car for the house, you should pay attention to this parameter.

What to choose

We can not ignore the fact that the dishwasher consumes other resources, such as electricity and various detergents. But these costs are not critical, because the light and dishwashing detergents are consumed in any case during manual washing. The conclusion suggests itself:

• dishwasher significantly saves water;
• washing dishes with high water temperature, you can be sure that the quality of washing will be much higher than with the manual method;
• when the machine is working, you have a rest, and for someone, time is money.

How rational is the acquisition - everyone decides on the basis of their needs. But, if you set yourself the task of saving time and money, the dishwasher will cope with both the first and second.