I am in a condo with a slab foundation and a first floor kitchen. I somewhat recently had my kitchen cabinets flooded out from my dishwasher's drain overflowing, and I'm looking for advice to try and prevent it from happening again.
The kitchen is as shown in the attached drawing. As you can see, the dishwasher is nowhere near the sink. When the dishwasher was originally installed, they ran a dedicated standpipe drain and dedicated water line to the dishwasher, as shown in the attached photo. (Yes, the slope of the horizontal PVC pipe is wrong; there were J-hooks attached to the wall holding it at the proper angle, but the pipe was not properly placed into the hooks. This was almost certainly the source of the problem.)
Being that the drain and water feed are behind the dishwasher, the drain overflow wasn't able to be caught and addressed before serious damage was caused to the cabinets and walls. I would like to address this situation so that this doesn't happen again.
I do plan to put a leak sensor and an automatic shutoff on the water feed. While that would catch and alert me to a drain overflow, it doesn't really fix the problem.
I considered relocating the dishwasher to be closer to the sink so that I could eliminate the standpipe drain and "close" the drain system for the dishwasher, but given the angle wall that the sink is on, putting it any closer to the sink would make it difficult to open and use the dishwasher.
What is my best situation?
The kitchen is as shown in the attached drawing. As you can see, the dishwasher is nowhere near the sink. When the dishwasher was originally installed, they ran a dedicated standpipe drain and dedicated water line to the dishwasher, as shown in the attached photo. (Yes, the slope of the horizontal PVC pipe is wrong; there were J-hooks attached to the wall holding it at the proper angle, but the pipe was not properly placed into the hooks. This was almost certainly the source of the problem.)
Being that the drain and water feed are behind the dishwasher, the drain overflow wasn't able to be caught and addressed before serious damage was caused to the cabinets and walls. I would like to address this situation so that this doesn't happen again.
I do plan to put a leak sensor and an automatic shutoff on the water feed. While that would catch and alert me to a drain overflow, it doesn't really fix the problem.
I considered relocating the dishwasher to be closer to the sink so that I could eliminate the standpipe drain and "close" the drain system for the dishwasher, but given the angle wall that the sink is on, putting it any closer to the sink would make it difficult to open and use the dishwasher.
What is my best situation?