"Elmo P. Shagnasty" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>> > The size of the house has nothing to do with it. The fact remains:
>> > if you need to add heat to the home to make it comfortable for
>> > living, then the heat from the dishwasher's dry cycle will ultimately
>> > be sent into the inside of the home itself. That is heat that the
>> > furnace does NOT have to supply.
>>
>> Eh, I don't think my dishwasher heat really reaches the thermostat
>> to any measurable degree.
>
> Ummmm.....absolutely it does.
>
> Are you an artist?

MEASURABLE degree. how many BTU does a warming cycle put out? sure, all of
it ends up in the house, but how many minutes of furnace time does it equate
to?