Dishwasher help needed

spudbynight

spudbynight

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We have a dishwasher that has started leaving a film of calcium on everything after a wash cycle. We live on the coast and have very hard water.

This happened before and we added salt to the dishwasher which rectified things. Now even this won't work and it is really frustrating. We use Fairy all in one dishwasher tablets.
 
Move it further away from the sea ? Or or try closer if that fails.


In truth though have you ran it through empty with a cleaner cartridge in ?
 
Has the machine been set to the correct water hardness setting? Some have a dial or something located somewhere that you can set accordingly to the water hardness just so that it softens correctly.

You are using rinse aid right?
 
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CLOUDY GLASSES?

You can determine the cause of cloudy glassware by soaking a glass in vinegar for 5 minutes. If the cloudiness is removed it is due to hard water deposits; make sure the salt reservoir is topped up. Do not worry about over-filling it.

If the cloudiness is not removed, it is a permanent condition known as etching. In this situation, use less detergent and stop pre-washing. Dishwashing detergent needs a bit of soil to work on, otherwise it will tend to foam up.
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It sounds like your dishwasher is clogged up with limescale. I'd try using something like Calgon to clear it out and get you back to a level when your normal water softener should work. I live near Cambridge where the water is also very hard so I tend to run it through once a month with a sachet of an anti-limescale granule that I got offered when I had to get Indesit to make a repair to my DW. No idea what it is but it works a charm.

Good luck.
 
Todge said:
Has the machine been set to the correct water hardness setting? Some have a dial or something located somewhere that you can set accordingly to the water hardness just so that it softens correctly.

You are using rinse aid right?
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Not using rinse aid - the tablets have rinse aid inbuilt.

This has been working fine for about 2 years without issue.
 
checjb said:
It sounds like your dishwasher is clogged up with limescale. I'd try using something like Calgon to clear it out and get you back to a level when your normal water softener should work. I live near Cambridge where the water is also very hard so I tend to run it through once a month with a sachet of an anti-limescale granule that I got offered when I had to get Indesit to make a repair to my DW. No idea what it is but it works a charm.

Good luck.
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Normal calgon that you use for the washing machine or is there a calgon for dishwashers?
 
Tesco cheapo rinse aid will cost you about a quid for a year.

We live in a hard water area and despite using all in one tablets need to use rinse aid and salt as well.

The rinse aid is the one thats controlled, normally its under the same flap as where you are supposed to put the dishwasher cleaner (liquid/tablet/granules) its a turn type thingy. I would wack it up to highest, run it for a few cycles and see if its fixed the issue, if it has slowly decline the level until you just start to notice its maybe not upto scratch and put it back up a smidge.

Also check your machines manual in regard to tables. Ours recommends not putting tablets in the pop up flap but to just put them in the machine directly. The pop up flaps are activated by heat and the tablets take a while to be dissolved and manage to get out, liquid/granules come out almost immediately the machine is up to temperature.
 
spudbynight said:
Not using rinse aid - the tablets have rinse aid inbuilt.

This has been working fine for about 2 years without issue.
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2 years without a clean? If so then this is your answer. Get a dishwasher cleaner and get that going through on an empty/hot cycle. Clean the filters, run another hot empty clean.

Always keep the salt topped up.
 
BlastRadius said:
2 years without a clean? If so then this is your answer. Get a dishwasher cleaner and get that going through on an empty/hot cycle. Clean the filters, run another hot empty clean.

Always keep the salt topped up.
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It has had lots of cleans over the two years.

I went out to Tesco to get more salt and rinse aid. For some reason when I came home my wife told me it seems to have fixed itself.

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