Under Counter Dishwasher Mounting Bracket

Home Depot wants me to review this item. It's a piece of steel with holes in it to aid in mounting a dishwasher. The holes allow you so many spaces to screw in the smaller braces for the appliance. It works :) The pictures give you a unique view since we are waiitng on new counter tops. Otherwise you would not really be able to see how it is mounted or where it is placed.

This is one of those “why didn’t I think of that” products. I have a dishwasher that was installed under a granite countertop by the “professional” that installed my kitchen cabinets. He couldn’t screw the mounting clips into the countertop, so he bent them so he could screw them into the cabinets at the sides. They held until he left, and I have been fighting a lose dishwasher ever since, reattaching them numerous times until the sheet metal tore. This device simply provides a medium (22-gauge galvanized steel) under the counter top that you can secure the top mounting clips (provided with the dishwasher) into with some screws. Before installing the dishwasher in the cabinet you simply attach the bracket to the bottom of the counter top with some silicon and to the cabinet with a couple of screws on the sides. Then you install the dishwasher as you normally would, except you attach the dishwasher mounting clips to the bracket under the countertop rather than the counter top itself. It’s so simple, yet works so well.

I got a new dishwasher for the cottage, and I needed a better way to attach the dishwasher to the underside of the counter. It was designed for mounting on hard surface counters like quartz and granite, but I utilized this bracket on a laminated counter top. This was because I didn't have an adjoining cabinet on the right side. Installation was pretty easy. You also need silicone adhesive to make it adhere to the underside of counter.

More suited for a new installation, not if dishwasher is already installed. I tried to install this on my already installed dishwasher and counter top. I gave up because I would have had to remove the dishwasher in order to adjust the existing dishwasher straps. I did not want to risk breaking something by pulling the dishwasher out, so I backed out of completing the installation. Next time I have to install a dishwasher though I will install this first. It will also hold the panel next to our dishwasher in place in better too. The instructions are very brief and could be a bit confusing as to which side goes ‘up’ since it identifies the sides by referring to ‘raised’ surfaces - which only works if you are already holding it the right way up! Fortunately it mention the number of raised surfaces so one can deduce which way is up with care. The instructions also tell us to bend the end tabs, and I suggest marking the exact place to make the bends, rather than simply bending the whole tabs down. See picture. Our Bosch dishwasher has vertical rubber seals that go to the underside of the counter top. I started cutting them to make room for the mounting bracket before noting that I would also have to make two bends in each dishwasher strap. See picture. Made in the USA

i ordered this under counter dishwasher mounting bracket to solve the problem of the dishwasher tipping out from the cabinet when the door was opened to load or unload the dishes from it. i have a granite counter top that made it impossible to secure the dishwasher to it and this was the easiest way to fix the problem without any damage to my cabinets. it came with good instructions, was easy to install and the only additional thing i needed was a tube of silicone to complete the installation in less than 15 minutes. i am very happy with this product and would recommend it to anyone with the same problem i had.

Didn’t know we needed it until we noticed the fit of the new dishwasher was not straight. It was a not difficult install and looks great - secure and straight.

Perfect solution to fix a dishwasher that was improperly installed by the previous owner of my home. The only downside was having to disconnect the dishwasher so I could slide it out in order to install this bracker, but I have previous experience doing that from a previous home... so while it was a bit of work, it was well worth it.