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Dishwasher repair (lemm.ee)

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My dishes have been coming out wet ever since flushing my water heater; my wife started a dishwasher load without telling me while I was in the middle of that project so I'm guessing it ran dry and fucked up the heating element.

I haven't noticed any issues draining. The dishes are coming out clean but wet. I've already run a reset on the board in case there was a fault that wasn't clearing or something. So now the most likely culprit is a dead element or maybe the switch for it?

I've acquired a new heating element and I'm planning on replacing it in hopes of getting dry dishes again today. Any tips beyond what a tutorial on YouTube would already bring up? Open the breaker, close the water valve, have a towel handy for any water that comes out of connections I'm breaking, etc. But maybe you know of some challenges in the process and a sort of life hack to make them easy?

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those southern repair guys on YouTube are a gold mine. If you can find somebody doing the same dishwasher you have, you’re all set!

But some less obvious things you can fuck up (well, I have, at least):

when you’re pushing the dishwasher back into the cabinet, make sure the water line and electrical don’t get kinked on something
if your water supply is a steel braided hose, it’s probably time to just replace it. Those hoses are only rated for 10ish years
test your fix before pushing it back into the cabinet and screwing everything back together. I lost count of how many times I was “done” and the had to disassemble something again because it didn’t actually work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I lost count of how many times I was “done” and the had to disassemble something again because it didn’t actually work

This is my curse.

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

A story told too often.