Dishwasher help needed

spudbynight · 26 Sep 2011 at 08:39

Fingers crossed someone is an expert in this field.

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.

spudbynight · 26 Sep 2011 at 09:02

LOAM said:
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 ?

Yep

spudbynight · 26 Sep 2011 at 09:03

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?

Not using rinse aid - the tablets have rinse aid inbuilt.

This has been working fine for about 2 years without issue.

spudbynight · 26 Sep 2011 at 09:04

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.

Normal calgon that you use for the washing machine or is there a calgon for dishwashers?

spudbynight · 26 Sep 2011 at 09:08

ThundyCat said:
Add rinse aid + you can buy dishwasher cleaner which you need to run on the hottest cycle with the machine empty.

Have done the clean already - I will be getting some rinse aid now as well.

Just going to pop out to Tesco now!

spudbynight · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:18

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.

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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