Hi,
My dishwasher stopped working, and wouldn't fill with water, just sitting there doing nothing. I read a few posts about this problem with other dishwashers, and tried various solutions like tipping to drain and reset flood protection float etc. This didn't work. After some further investigation this morning ie seemed that maybe something was blocked, as a few rouge lentils and the odd 1/2 a chickpea were in the bottom beyond the filters. SoI filled it up a bit with water and used a plunger to give it a good plunging. A fair bit of repugnation was flushed out and when I then put it on pre wash, success, the dishwasher sprayed water everywhere and things seem to be functional again. I put it on wash again and it seems to be filling up, but very very slowly. This may have been happening for a while as it seems to have been taking a very long time recently to wash before the problem started.
I have a couple of questions.
At the bottom of the dishwasher there seem to be 3 holes.
1 is obviously the drain, and this does not seem to be blocked as it drains ok, and presumably this would not cause it to not fill if it was blocked. But what are the exact purposes 2 and 3? 3 seems to have a sort of 'grate' in front of it. This is a picture of the various holes, each numbered. If these are getting blocked and that is causing the machine to stop working, what is the suggested way to clear them? Is there anything better than a plunger?
Now when it is filling it seems to fill from a hole at the side of the dishwasher, shown on this picture
. The water trickles out of this hole. Could this be related to the blockage/not filling at all problem? If not what might cause this? I'm pretty sure its not a blocked/kinked hose, allthough I'll check that later. I'm glad to have it functional again, but it seems like only half the problem is solved.
Any ideas gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Sam
My dishwasher stopped working, and wouldn't fill with water, just sitting there doing nothing. I read a few posts about this problem with other dishwashers, and tried various solutions like tipping to drain and reset flood protection float etc. This didn't work. After some further investigation this morning ie seemed that maybe something was blocked, as a few rouge lentils and the odd 1/2 a chickpea were in the bottom beyond the filters. SoI filled it up a bit with water and used a plunger to give it a good plunging. A fair bit of repugnation was flushed out and when I then put it on pre wash, success, the dishwasher sprayed water everywhere and things seem to be functional again. I put it on wash again and it seems to be filling up, but very very slowly. This may have been happening for a while as it seems to have been taking a very long time recently to wash before the problem started.
I have a couple of questions.
At the bottom of the dishwasher there seem to be 3 holes.
Now when it is filling it seems to fill from a hole at the side of the dishwasher, shown on this picture
Any ideas gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Sam
