My dishes have been coming out wet ever since flushing my water heater; my wife started a dishwasher load without telling me while I was in the middle of that project so I’m guessing it ran dry and fucked up the heating element.
I haven’t noticed any issues draining. The dishes are coming out clean but wet. I’ve already run a reset on the board in case there was a fault that wasn’t clearing or something. So now the most likely culprit is a dead element or maybe the switch for it?
I’ve acquired a new heating element and I’m planning on replacing it in hopes of getting dry dishes again today. Any tips beyond what a tutorial on YouTube would already bring up? Open the breaker, close the water valve, have a towel handy for any water that comes out of connections I’m breaking, etc. But maybe you know of some challenges in the process and a sort of life hack to make them easy?
Leave the toe kick off for a few days and paper towels under the valve connection and sump so you can check them after running a few loads. The last thing you need is a slow leak where you’re not likely to check again for a few years.
That’s what I’m talking about! Tutorials on YouTube seem to be done in model houses where nothing is actually connected to anything, so it’s like they forget to mention this sort of thing.
I’ll tell my dad he has some good ideas, he gave me that one years ago.