I tired to fix the dishwasher!

[Sir C]

I had no idea they were so expensive, having just replaced one that had given me almost twenty years service.
Needless to say, I went German again.

300 quid areas, isn't it? Cheap, really. It's going to last 3 years, that's £2 a week

[PSRB]

300 quid areas, isn't it? Cheap, really. It's going to last 3 years, that's £2 a week

Be a lot easier if people (wife and child) put the dirty stuff in the dishwasher rather then in the sink, so that I don't then have to move it to where it should go in the 1st place!

[Burney]

Be a lot easier if people (wife and child) put the dirty stuff in the dishwasher rather then in the sink, so that I don't then have to move it to where it should go in the 1st place!

But surely you rinse first? This is the key to long dishwasher life imo.

[Sir C]

But surely you rinse first? This is the key to long dishwasher life imo.

Your attitude to dishwashers is on the screaming maniac side of OCD.

[Pat Vegas]

Your attitude to dishwashers is on the screaming maniac side of OCD.

in my household I have to ensure that no water is left in the sink or on the draining board as it drives someone crazy

then at the same time I get moaned at if it use excessive paper towel.

[Burney]

Your attitude to dishwashers is on the screaming maniac side of OCD.

Yeah? Well of the two of us, which one has a working dishwasher, eh? Tell me that.

QED imo.

[PSRB]

But surely you rinse first? This is the key to long dishwasher life imo.

Yes, rinse and then place in dishwasher. Not leave in the sink for me to rinse!!

[Pokster]

But surely you rinse first? This is the key to long dishwasher life imo.

incorrect, you shouldn't need to rinse on modern washers... it will be the crap hard water down there that finishes it off

[Burney]

incorrect, you shouldn't need to rinse on modern washers... it will be the crap hard water down there that finishes it off

Actually, I do have a water softening system thingy, which might explain it.

[Ash]

incorrect, you shouldn't need to rinse on modern washers... it will be the crap hard water down there that finishes it off

Is there any chance that you might be able to post on a thread one day without doing the whole professional northerner thing?

(Actually, I have just had an electro-magnet thing installed on the boiler that is supposed to help protect the boiler and washing machine from the hard water.)