Home Improvements & Repairs

Do you need to know how to fix a dishwasher? How come? Is it bucks you want to save? Is it going shopping you hate? Is your spouse needing you to fix it? Do you just like fixing things? Is your time limited because you are preparing for a party or a wedding and you need to clean lots of dishes?

What ever your reason might be, I’ll give you a tip on how to fix a dishwasher. Familiarize yourself with the unit first. So now take out your owners manual and see what it says. A lot of times when the manual says call a technician you just might be able to repair it yourself.

So now that you have familiarized yourself with the unit, and depending on the problem, you will have to pull it out from under the counter. In this way you will get the greatest access to all parts.

Since water and electronics are a bad combination, this leads to breakdowns.

Most breakdowns you will be able to fix. Before you call a repairman, you might be able to save money. I’ll show you now a simple repair of one of the most common problems.

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So here are some dishwasher repair tips:

1) So are your dishes still dirty after washing? Don’t worry if this is the case. It is likely to be simple like the shut-off valve being off, which feeds the water coming into the machine. Under the kitchen sink check the water shut-off valve. Look closely to see if it is turned on.

Check the spray arms for clogs, and unclog them, if necessary. Food gets clogged in the openings, as most spray arms are poorly designed. Cleaning out the arms with the garden hose putting high pressure water through them is the best way to do it.

After putting about 300 ml of vinegar inside the machine, run it without dishes inside. The full cycle should be run here. This should do a great job of cleaning it. So after the dishes have been washed, are they still dirty, is there water left in the bottom of the machine? This might mean that your outlet is clogged: you will have to clean any of the filters at the bottom of the machine. Another thing you can do is check the outlet valve, and hose under the dishwasher.

I too, not long ago, went through all of the above, but, yes, my dishes still remained dirty. But how? There were more unseen clogs. Always look deeper inside! And that’s what I did. Basically as I dug deeper into the unit, I then realized, and for the first time, that I was able to clean a filter I had not see before. This nasty filter was blocked with sediments. Everything worked great after I cleaned it out! If you have water that is hard it will build white hard sediments in the filters openings.

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