If you’re going to install a dishwasher by yourself without the aid of a plumber: make sure you know what your doing.  Or, alternatively you could do what the guy who lived in our house did and install it yourself and hope everything works.  Its been two years that we’ve been in this house and I’m not thrilled to report that our dishwasher stopped draining correctly, in part because the guy installed it without taking into account that the hoses and tubes, when installed incorrectly, are guaranteed to siphon dirty water back into the dishwasher at some point in time because gravity and physics have a tendency to be constant.

Stupid laws of science. 😉