Water level sensors in dishwashers

[Calvin]

Been here lots of times. Your description is of a machine that's gone into "emergency pump out" mode due to detecting what it thinks is a leak. It'l l pump whenever it's plugged in until you "fix" the fault. As others have suggested there will be a tray covering the whole base of th e machine and at the lowest point there will be a large block of expanded p olystyrene and a float switch. You could simply tip the water out onto the floor and all should be well (I 've heard of but never experienced these sensors needing a manual reset but for me simply removing the water has always worked) or you could be a litt le neater and use a large syringe to empty it. In my experience the water build up was never the result of a leak as such, at least not a pipe leak. I found that it was possible to stack things in just the right way so that water was splashed out of a vent at the side. Imagine how long it took to work that out.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 30 October 2013 08:08 Tim Watts wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Thanks guys - finally I had a spare 20 mins to fiddle.

I tipped it towards the front 10 degrees and put it back.

No obvious water has come out but it has cleared the problem - at least at this instant.

It *feels* like maybe a sticky float as was suggested in several posts.

I am running it on a hot cycle with dishwasher cleaner to see if that clears enough grease out to avoid disassembly for a few weeks.

I am inspired enough to bother to take it out and open the side and clear it properly - just need a syringe and some caustic soda.

Let's see how it responds to a full clean.

I do run the cleaning product through it from time to time, but maybe it cannot get to a bit of grease in the right area...

[robgraham]

Been there, got the T shirt , etc.

An AEG which fairly regularly required emptying of the tray. When it final ly did stop and the 'local man' was called in he required sterilising powde r to clear one of the tubes of bacterial growth, and he suggested drilling a hole in the tray and putting a catch dish under the machine. That was fi ne until we forgot about the dish and the leak became much more significant !!!

Rob

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 01 November 2013 22:28 robgraham wrote in uk.d-i-y:

It's done afew washes and it seems OK :)

One more problem put off for a bit...

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 30 October 2013 08:08 Tim Watts wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Well, it worked for a while.

Now the drain pump has siezed with a sweet mell of roasting insulation.

That's that then - uneconomical - new machine time :-o