FWIW...Just came back from our product fair. Among many of our vendors Delta had an interesting new product line. The Delta Haywood series of bathroom faucets are now cartridge-less units with no serviceable or replaceable parts. They use a diamond dust stem/ceramic seat. They are in fact lifetime warranty. He tells me no matter what goes wrong with it or the finish, Delta will replace the unit for as long as you own it. No questions asked. It multi millions of cycle life. This is new to me and generally speaking new for Delta. Although the factory rep did tell that their very high end faucets have had this technology for a little while. They are now introducing it to the more common units. I can only assume Moen and others also have similar and if not now very soon.

Over the weekend we experienced a clog on the drain line that handles our dishwasher and kitchen sink. Water from the sink was flooding into the dishwasher and the dishwasher was just overflowing with nasty water. I attempted to plunge the sink drain. I attempted the baking soda/vinega/hot water trick and I even tried an auger I picked up, but couldn't get things unclogged. We live in a high rise apartment building, and this morning the super came up to take a look. He used a big shop vac and a much more heavy duty auger and seemingly solved the problem. No water leaking into the dishwasher, and the sink drained well. But... I just tried running the dishwasher to make a dent in the massive pile of dirty dishes that we now have... After the dishwasher was running for 15 minutes or so I passed by the kitchen and smelled a weird burning chemical smell. Opened the dishwasher and discovered there was no water in it. None at all. What could have caused this to start happening and how can I fix it?