How to care for your dishwasher

dishwasher care In order for the “iron assistant” to serve for a long time and not break, it needs care. Moreover, she will constantly demand attention to herself, and the more attention she receives, the better she will work. Caring for a dishwasher at home comes down mainly to its external and internal cleaning and some other preventive measures. How to properly care for a dishwasher will be discussed in our story.

What can I do to make my dishwasher last long?

If you just use your dishwasher every day and don't think about its maintenance, then after a very short period of time the dishwasher will stop working. The reason for this could be a clogged filter, hose or pipe, a jammed sprinkler, or who knows what else. But all this can be avoided if you train yourself to take care of your dishwasher on time and give it some kind of technical preventive maintenance. The question arises, how to care for the dishwasher correctly, what actions to take?

Note! Methods of caring for a dishwasher, basically, do not depend on its brand, model and time of use, but equally extend its service life.

In fact, there are quite a lot of these actions; there is a reason to list them first, and only then analyze them in detail. These are the actions.

Regularly check and clean debris filters.
Checking and cleaning the rotating rocker arm (upper and lower).
Cleaning the baskets and walls of the washing chamber.
Cleaning the in-line fill filter.
Checking and cleaning the drain hose.
Cleaning and wiping the detergent dispenser.
Maintenance of rubber parts.
Cleaning the inside and outside of the door
Caring for the outside of your dishwasher.

In addition to these actions, experts recommend taking preventive measures aimed at protecting the dishwasher from dirt that comes with tap water and power surges. Let's talk in more detail about how to do all this correctly.

Dry cleaning

Dry cleaning involves cleaning the inside of the dishwasher using special products. Dishwasher cleaning chemicals can be purchased or made at home, but it is best to use specially designed products recommended by the dishwasher manufacturer. You need to be more careful with dry cleaning, but at the same time you should never neglect it., because the service life of the machine will depend on how correctly and often you carry out such cleaning.

So, to carry out a complete internal cleaning of the dishwasher from dirt, mold and cleaning the dishwasher limescale, you need to do the following:

remove dirty dishes from the dishwasher baskets;
pour or pour a special cleaning agent into the powder compartment;
run a washing program, which should not last less than 1.5 hours, and the water temperature should not be less than 60 ⁰WITH.

At the end of the wash program, all internal parts of the dishwasher that come into contact with water will be very well cleaned. True, this will happen provided that the cleaning product is of high quality.

Many experts recommend a comprehensive express cleaner for Top House dishwashers, which ideally copes with all types of dirt. You can choose another remedy, including preparing it yourself.You can read more about special cleaning products for dishwashers in the article Dishwasher cleaning products, everything is described there in more or less detail.

It has been reliably recorded that the service life of a dishwasher that regularly undergoes dry cleaning increases by about 1.5 times, and if you combine it with physical cleaning, the service life can be extended by 2 times. It is necessary to clean the dishwasher using chemicals at least once every 6 months.

Important! Don't get carried away with cleaning your dishwasher with vinegar. The vinegar smell gets into the rubber bands and then it can be quite difficult to get rid of it.

Physical cleaning

Dishwasher maintenance is not limited to dry cleaning alone; you also need to work with your hands. In what order should you check and clean the “iron assistant”, and most importantly, how to do it correctly?

We start cleaning with garbage filters and holes around the drain. Unscrew the coarse garbage filter and take out the fine filter mesh. We thoroughly clean and rinse the filters and put them in place. We also thoroughly wash the hole around the drain with soapy water and a sponge.
Next comes the prevention of the rotating impeller. Take a toothpick and a sponge with dishwashing detergent. Use a toothpick to clean the injector holes and remove dirt with a sponge. The injectors must be completely free of dirt and limescale.
As part of the next stage, we take dishwashing detergent, dilute it in a small amount of water and wipe the baskets and walls of the washing chamber with a sponge with a solution.
Let's move on to the inside of the door. We need to rinse it with the same solution along with the detergent cuvette, and then wipe it with a dry cloth. At the same time, you need to wash and wipe the rubber seals.
We unscrew the drain hose, after placing rags on the floor, rinse and clean the hose, and then put it back in place.
Armed with a glass cleaner, spray a little of the product on the front of the washing machine and on the walls of the body, and then wipe it with a dry cloth.
Next, turn off the water and unscrew the inlet hose. We are more interested not in the hose itself, but in the flow filters. One is in the machine body at the inlet, and the second is usually placed after the tee valve. We disassemble both filters and thoroughly clean their meshes so that no dirt or scale remains. We put the filters in place and screw on the hose.

When completing physical cleaning, be sure to check that the debris filters are securely screwed on, the rocker arm rotates properly, and the inlet and drain hoses are installed correctly.. A poorly screwed hose can cause a “flood”.

How to make it safe to use?

The service life of the dishwasher will depend not only on how correctly and often you clean it in different ways, but also on how pedantically you follow the basic operating rules.

When placing dirty dishes in the baskets, do not forget to check if there are any pieces of food left on them.
Fold the dishes correctly, strictly according to the instructions.
Choose your washing program more carefully.
After finishing washing the dishes, do not close the door tightly. It is necessary to allow the condensate to evaporate from the washing chamber.
After each dishwashing, you should thoroughly wipe the rubber seals with a dry cloth.
After each wash, check the cuvette for any undissolved powder or tablet.

For your information! The service life of a dishwasher directly depends not only on care, but also on how correctly it was installed.

In conclusion, we note that increasing the service life of your dishwasher is not so difficult, the main thing is to properly care for it. Caring for a dishwasher is not a difficult task at all; you just need to try to get the hang of it a couple of times, get used to doing it all the time, and your “iron assistant” will work properly for decades.