Home Improvement

8843 readers

9 users here now

Home Improvement

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Dishwasher Recommendations (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So the "fails to complete a cycle without erroring out" rate finally seems to have reached 100%, on the Samsung dishwasher that came with the house.

What do I need to know when picking a new one, and/or what models do y'all recommend?

I'll take recommendations about how to fix the current one too, I guess, but I already got advice from an appliance repair man, who basically said "it would need a new control board, I.E. ditch it." The error code it's giving is supposedly about insufficient water or water flow, but the water feed is completely fine, as far as I can tell.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with Samsung, but a couple of things to consider:

does your model have an internal filter or screens? If so find them and clean them
pull the sprayer arms and inspect the water ports. Sometimes gunk or hard food debris clogs them. You can clean them out with a toothpick and some shaking
get a dishwasher cleaner pack and run it on the sanitize cycle. *Alternatively get some citric acid powder and run a few cycles with that inside the tub.

It's disappointing to hear a repair person say "get a new one." My last dishwasher was 20 years old. I repaired damn near everything on it myself including the control board.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Point being" with the control board, is it costs damn-near as much as a whole new unit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh also there may be a float inside to measure water level. Not sure if it's possible to inspect it with a ohm meter easily, but it's worth checking.