Could it really be this simple?? (x-post from C&B)

[NMDemDist2]

In the new place (I don't get to call it that much longer, it will be a year in a couple weeks) the Dishwasher sucked, stunk, blows, hell, it did everything you could name EXCEPT clean the darned dishes!!

I have been talking about replacing it for months but haven't found a unit I liked when I had the money to spend. anyway....

I was asking a customer how he liked *his* recently new dishwasher and complaining about mine and another customer said "You know around here the water is so hard, did you check the float? They get all gummed up and it won't let enough water into the unit to clean well"

D'OH!!!!

I cleaned the float today and I'll be darned! the dishes are CLEAN!!! I even 'tested' by puttin a plate in there with dried on ketchup and mustard and it all came off! :woohoo:

so if your old dishwasher is giving you fits, clean the float and the sprayer arms before you order a new unit, you may be surprised!!

FYI, the float is the domed looking thingie somewhere on the bottom of the unit, often held with a screw.

:hi:

[Longhorn]

1. I believe it!

When we moved here 11 years ago, we were on some of the nastiest, smelliest well water I've ever seen. The local well-servicing company came out and tested it and it was worse than most in the area, and that was saying a lot! We had an aerator to try to take out the smell, a water softener, and reverse-osmosis system and that made it tolerable enough to brush my teeth with it but not to drink. The fixtures always looked like they had dried milk on them. My daughter even did her 8th-grade science project on which cleaner works best when you have hard water. (I think CLR worked the best.)

We had to buy liquid dishwasher and laundry detergent because the powder kind wouldn't dissolve. All of our glasses had spots on them, some of which have still not come out. Everything inside the dishwasher, including the stainless steel door, was covered with calcium and lime deposits. But I bought a dishwasher cleaner that really helped, along with using a white vinegar rinse. About five years ago, the Lower Colorado River Authority ran a water line to our neighborhood so we now have treated water from the LCRA lake system. It is such an improvement!

I'm glad you figured out a solution to your problem! :hi:

[NMDemDist2]

2. there still was some hard water 'greying' since the water softener

took a dump yesterday and spilled hundreds of gallons of water into the septic and yard before hubby got home and got it shut off, but that's another story.....

I'm so glad now I didn't spend the money on a dishwasher cuz it looks like a new water softener just jumped to the top of the list :rofl: