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The toe panel of my newly installed Bosch 500 Series dishwasher looks unfinished to me, but the installer insists its correct. Can anyone compare this to theirs? Would appreciate any pictures people could share.

Dishwasher Toe Plate

This is from the manual. From manual

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  • One would hope that as much as these things cost they'd come with proper-looking trim. You mention "the installer," which implies you paid someone to do this. Obviously, (s)he had to work with available parts, but I'd also hope that they at least agreed with you that it doesn't LOOK very good and should be better. -- zed, with a not-very-helpful-but-at-least-empathetic opinion. Commented Nov 26 at 20:08

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This looks fairly typical to me. However, I suspect that the rear lower panel is upside down. They are usually designed for varying recess heights, and you should not see the screw slot.

Pull the two screws on the outer panel, remove both panels, and look things over. If you can simply rotate the rear lower panel 180° and reinstall so that the screw slot doesn't show, all good.

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This Bosch Installation Manual has instructions for attaching the toe panel on page 14 which read: "Attach the toe panel with the 3/4" screws so it is flush with the floor."

toe panel 1

A different Installation Manual shows how the bracket which the toe panel screws to has multiple holes which can be used to adjust the height, and it looks to me as though we can see some evidence of that sort of thing behind your toe panel:

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You'd want the panel to be flush with the floor so that when you're looking down towards it you don't see any gap between the panel and the floor.
If lowering the panel leaves a gap between the panel and the door - it doesn't matter since the only way you'll see it is if you get down and look at it from floor level.

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  • The weird thing is, it doesn't look like the OP has either of the panel types listed in the instructions. If you look closely, it appears to actually be two stainless panels—one on top of the other—which doesn't match anything shown in the instructions. It does look like the outer panel may be able to be lowered, since the back panel seems to be slotted. (I agree with you about not being a big deal unless you have massive OCD.) Commented Nov 25 at 14:33
  • Thanks for the reply, @brhans. However, I think I have a different model. I just pasted a snippit from the manual into the original question. Commented Nov 25 at 14:48
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    FYI, that's not what "flush" means. Both the documentation and your answer use it incorrectly. It would have to be recessed into the floor to be flush. Commented Nov 25 at 14:49
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    @isherwood "flush" has multiple meanings in different contexts. From merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flush: "directly abutting or immediately adjacent", or from dictionary.com/browse/flush: "having direct contact; being right next to; immediately adjacent" - seems to work in the context it's being used in the Bosch documentation. So while "having or forming a continuous plane or unbroken surface" is certainly a meaning of "flush", it's not the only meaning. Commented Nov 25 at 16:24

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