Your dishwasher is an essential part of daily life. Without it, you’re up to your elbows in soapy water for an hour every day. So if your dishwasher starts to fail, having a few quick repair tricks up your sleeve can be incredibly handy. Most people know how to check the soap compartment and the rack tracks. But when you’ve …

If you have opened your dishwasher after the cycle is supposed to be finished and find standing water, dirty of not, then you have a drainage problem with your dishwasher. There is something blocking some portion of the drainage system that needs to be addressed. When you have discovered that your dishwasher won’t drain, here is what to start checking …

Almost every modern home in America is an unknowing part of the great garbage disposal debate. What is and is not safe to put down the garbage disposal? This question has been answered thousands of times and, confusingly, the answers often conflict with each other. Are eggshells good or bad for your garbage disposal? What about fruit peels? Part of …

Certain appliances, like dishwashers and washing machines, seem like they’d be self-cleaning. After all, they do use cleaning products and hot water every time you run them. Which is why they are often overlooked when it comes time to clean the house. But, despite their own cleaning abilities, these appliances should be cleaned just like every other appliance in your …

Few appliance owners actually know the usual run time for a dishwasher. You just know that it cleans a load of dishes in some amount of reasonable time and if you don’t notice it, it works great. Typically, a healthy dishwasher will complete a wash anywhere between 30 minutes and 4 hours. This is a huge time discrepancy, but there …

In order to wash your dishes, the dishwasher is filled with water and that water is combined with detergent. That soapy water is then sprayed rather forcefully out of the spray arm that rotates to create solid water coverage. However, if your dishwasher is turning out dirty dishes and you don’t hear the telltale sounds of water spraying, you have …

Your dishwasher is one of those heavy lifting cleaning tools in your kitchen, but it is prone to growing dirty just like any other appliance. The detergent you put in does a decent job of removing food and grease from your dishes, but it doesn’t always have the same effect on the dishwasher tub. When that food and grease remains, …