Not happy with dishwasher after first use

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I am tired of standing there every day washing dishes, so yesterday, for the first time since moving into my house, I decided it was time to load up the dishwasher. I wasn't sure if it still worked but gave it a try. I didn't have any dishwashing detergent so I went to the store and bought some. Had to go to more than a few stores before I actually found what I was looking for. When I got home, I loaded everything into the dishwasher, happily turned it on, and went to enjoy my dinner. After the cycle ended, I opened up the machine, and saw water on top of the tea cups with black stuff floating on top of it. That was disgusting. The cups had to be rewashed. And so did the rest of the stuff in there, even though there was no floating black stuff, stains or water on anything else. I heard that this can happen when a dishwasher hasn't been used for a long time, but that didn't make me feel any better as I have to rewash everything by hand. I was planning to do that today. Unfortunately, that never happened. A guy came over to look at the leak in the kitchen ceiling and see what's causing it, which I actually discovered during the dishwasher cycle last night. I thought that turning on the dishwasher had somehow caused the leak in the kitchen ceiling, but it made no sense because the water was leaking in the ceiling up above, not down below on the first floor. We went to the bathroom upstairs, which is above the kitchen, and saw water dripping from the faucet in the bathtub. After he turned on the hot water, we saw brown water coming out of the faucet, along with stuff that resembles sand, except it's not. (Not sure what it's called.) The cold water was better but still not clean. Due to this problem, the water cannot be used and the dishes remain there, waiting to be washed again. When the water finally returns back to normal, which I hope is tomorrow at the latest, I will finally rewash the dishes. And I think I will go back to my usual hand washing dishes routine. I am not sure I want to wash dishes in the dishwasher ever again after what happened.