black gunk

lichenwood · 30 Nov 2003

My whirlpool dishwasher is only about 3 years old. Over the past few months a horrible black gunk has started collecting all over drains and filters. It is disgusting and a pain to clean out. Indeed, it never really looks clean. Dishes come out clean looking, but I am grossed out. What can be wrong?

lmpymilk · 2 Oct 2005

So what was the deal? Did you ever figure this out? I am having the same problem.

Thanks

chrishutt · 2 Oct 2005

I doubt whether lichenwood is still checking for posts - his/her post is 2 years old! Anyway this thread ought to be transferred to the "appliances" forum.

Nige F · 3 Oct 2005

chrishutt said:
I doubt whether lichenwood is still checking for posts - his/her post is 2 years old! Anyway this thread ought to be transferred to the "appliances" forum.

and it`s from America

AAL · 31 Dec 2005

Do you find a solution for this ?.

I have a Philips Whirlpool with the same problem and already try everything but I can not get out of the black (grease,oil,etc) dirt .

any sugestion ?????

boilerbeasty · 31 Dec 2005

might want to try some solvents to dissolve the grease, rather than ever stronger detergents to wash it away. have you tried any ?

JohnD · 31 Dec 2005

May well be that it isn't draining properly, or, the drain pipe isn't looped up, so filth from the drain connection is running down into the d/wr.

Obviously these people must have removed and cleaned their filters and any particles from the washer arm holes.

I haven't experienced this with my dw/rs, but I don't use much cooking oil, and wipe any fat from roasting or grill pans pans with kitchen paper rolls, and put it in the bin. I once saw a kitchen sink trap that had greasy pans tipped down it, it was horrible.

AAL · 2 Jan 2006

Thanks for your answers , however I really cleaned the filters periodically and also the inside of the machine to remove the biggest amount of the gunk\grease. From the plastics parts even with very hot water and detergent it is difficult to remove. At one time I supposed it was some rubber that is damaged and the gunk could be parts of it .I replaced the door rubber and inspect all other and find no one bad.
About the drain I already have it making a curve about 10 cm of the upper part of the machine . I run the machine with Caustic Soda (perhaps not correctly spelling ) but it did not make any harm to the gunk .
Do you have any suggestion about the strong detergent ?. Could this be an enzyme or something alike ??? .Could it be that the machine is not warming the water to the proper temperature and even the detergent is not actuating properly . Do you know what it the water temperature that I should get into the machine ?.

Thanks

andy · 2 Jan 2006

AAL said:
Do you find a solution for this ?.

I have a Philips Whirlpool with the same problem and already try everything but I can not get out of the black (grease,oil,etc) dirt .

any sugestion ?????

try makin a new thread. this is 2 years old.

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