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BlackIronSaturn OP t1_j2fktom wrote

Reply to comment by bloonail in Removed a faulty dishwasher, now I have two open ports: the disposal and hot water pressure pipe. I recorkd the disposal port, but I am not sure what part would be best to seal off the opening for the hot water pressure. Probably a simple solution, but I am dumb and new to pipe stuff. picture inside by BlackIronSaturn

Yeah that was my fallback (to basically cork it similar to the disposal), but it's piped strangely.

Like one of the valves turns on the water, and the one on the off side (with the opening) controls the pressure. So I can have hot water but I get a trickle when it's turned off. So basically just need to close the opening and bada bing bada boom, hot water pressure.

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bloonail t1_j2fln84 wrote

Take these pics to your local home repair outlet store and ask for help. The dishwasher should have its own cutoff valve and that should completely turn off the water. Yours looks old. You may have to put another in upstream of the one you have and cut out the old one. There looks like enough room for that but just barely. We just replaced our dishwasher a week ago. The cutoff valve did work as advertised and there was no problem. The type you have is notoriously unreliable as it gets older. This isn't a difficult repair even if you have to replace the cutoff valve. There are lots of youtube videos that will explain this well.

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