Dishwasher just not as good as it used to be – service?

[xtinexoop]

Hi

We have Siemens SE65590GB/12. We have noticed recently that the dishwasher hasn’t been cleaning as well and sometimes the dishes aren’t properly dry, but it still seems to be heating up, draining, arms spinning etc. so we can’t pick on a particular fault.

It has been making a strange ‘bang’ during the cycle for a while now. We also get this bang though from toilets etc. so we weren’t too worried – we turned the water pressure down at the toilets and that seemed to help those so today hubby has turned the pressure down going to the dishwasher.

We had been using the Finish all in one tablets and not adding salt or rinse aid, but recently have gone back to ordinary Finish tabs and manually putting salt and rinse aid in.

I cleaned the filters and the spray arms a week ago (and they were dirty I am ashamed to say) but it still isn’t as good as it used to be. Hubby has done it again today – we both noticed that the plastic on the micro filter is brittle and bits have snapped off (guess we need a new filter!)

We do have a garbage disposal which we aren’t using as much as we used to but we have checked all the traps etc. and it seems to be clear.

Any other ideas? We don’t have any specific problem we could tell an engineer – just that it doesn’t seem to be as good as it was. Perhaps it needs a service.

As an idea, how much is a service likely to cost and would that include cleaning out anything that might be gunked up as we do have very hard water here and things (bath toys etc) do seem prone to black gunk.

Also apart from a dishwasher cleaner (which we have used today) is there anything else that would help to degunk the insides we can’t see?

Is it worth taking the plinth off the kitchen units to get at the front, or removing the machine from being built in – ie. is there anything else we should clean out before we call the engineer?

Christine

[kwatt]

Hi Christine,

If the filters have holes in them then that’s not going to help at all as you will get re-deposition of food onto the plates etc. The filters are vital to performance.

That wont’ solve the drying problem though and it could be that it’s just getting old by the sounds of it.

HTH

K.

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