Dishwasher leaking - can't work out how!

Jul 05, 2014 5 Replies

I don't get this at all.



We have a John Lewis dishwasher JLDWW1206 about 5 years old.



It has suddenly started leaking at the door so I took the front panel off to let me see what was going on whilst the machine is working.



The four sides of the interface between door and chamber are sealed with two units - the first a continuous 3-sided seal, top and sides, in the body of the machine, the second a seal along the bottom edge of the door which mates with the chamber floor.



BUT...the door seal actually has two gaps in it so it was never continuous. And of course some water can sneak around the meeting corners of the two seals when the door is close.



The chamber floor has a lip which is about an inch or more higher than the door seal, outside the door, if you see what I mean. This means that there will always be some water *outside* the not-so-sealed working chamber but of course if it's static then it just sits there.



However, it's extremely clear, with the front panel off, that water is spurting out through the two gaps in the bottom seal such that it achieves espace velocity over the lip and out in the outside world.



I don't get it!



Nothing has changed. Except suddenly this morning the machine is spurting water out.



Can there be *any* explanation of this other than the level of water in the machine is higher than it should be - perhaps if a level sensor is failing?



I really can't see what else, as the chamber has clearly never been actually *sealed* and watertight, it must always have relied on this lip to retain the seepage around the seal.



Michael


Has the door catch come loose?

I recommend the forum at

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I've had good advice from the site (and good pointers to parts too)

No, in fact I've just worked it out. The lower spray arm was split and was ejecting water out of the side (the seam between its two moulded halves). This was, presumably, creating a strong pulse aimed directly at the bottom of the door at each rotation, thus ejecting it through the small gap in the bottom seal at a velocity high enough to lap over the lower tray!

Strange design - not sure why there can't be an air gap somewhere at the top rather than in the lower door seal.

Michael

In article , Michael Kilpatrick writes

If it was at the top then this would allow water vapour and heat to escape during the drying cycle.

So can you fix it, and more to the point, is this a design fault. If you had not found it I was going to suggest that some of the holes were bunged up creating extra pressure via the others making it come outharder and splash over the top.. Just like when you get a lime scalled up shower head. Brian

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