Starting with a shout out to all the seals who are pupping along the East Coast at the moment. But I digress.
Called out the local engineer who services the Lamona kit for Howdens under warranty. So an obvious choice for our out of warranty Lamona dishwasher.
He obviously had a very good idea what the fault probably was.
Apparently the spray arms can split along the side of the moulding. When that happens instead of a nice distributed spray you get a sheet of water blasting across the inside of the dishwasher which overwhelms the seals. If it is the lower arm (as in our case) it tends to avoid the flood tray and work its way along the base and come out near the front.
If it is the upper arm then it tends to go down into the flood tray and stop the machine.
In and out in less than 15 minutes.
This leaves me embarrassed that I could have fixed it, but also aware that I could have pulled the damn thing out and stripped it down and not found the fault because it wasn't in the works, but just the spray arm.
Definitely a case of the traditional "£1 to hit it with a hammer, £999 to know where to hit it" and all in all it was money well spent.
£86.24 including a new spray arm.Acceptable for an 8 year old dishwasher at around £10 a year - I assume that an extended warranty would have cost more (haven't checked).
A timely arrival as well as I was about to disassemble the inside of the cupboard under the sink to allow access to the pipework in case it had to be pulled out to gain access.
Now to put 8 years of miscellaneous items back into the cupboard.
Hey ho.
Cheers
Dave R