(Posted in case someone else has the same problem).
2 Year old Bosch Exxcel dishwasher suddenly stopped working - stuck on pumping out. Checked all the obvious stuff such as blocked inlet and outlet pipes, filters etc. Suspecting a control panel fault, I called the engineer, he took the side off and said "you've got a mouse". The mouse had eaten most of the polystyrene float which is part of an anti-flood prevention mechanism (hence machine stuck on pumping out).34p for the float, £35 for labour plus VAT.
Later the same day, chomping noise from dishwasher confirmed mouse still there. Got the little bugger before he could eat enough to do real damage though.
Biggles
p.s. If you are thinking "hang on, if it's a *float*, then eating it would make it *less* likely to float and hence less likely to cause those symptoms" then you're not alone. However, replacing the remains with a new float fixed the fault. I would welcome a rational explanation though.
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