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Dishwasher leads cloudy glasses.
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| bambam@nospam.tnx 2006-04-03, 4:21 pm |
| Our Bosch dishwasher is leaving the glasses cloudy after a regular
wash. We're using Calgon liquid soap.
Tried increasing water temp and changing soaps. No luck.
Also have a cloudy residue on the stainless steel door and body of the
machine.
Anyone got any cures for this?
Thanks
Ken
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| Pour some vinegar in the DW before you run each load. Works great!
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| RayV wrote:
> Pour some vinegar in the DW before you run each load. Works great!
I've never used vinegar and my glasses come out looking brand new every
time.
Maybe something's in the water.
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| Doug Kanter 2006-04-03, 5:21 pm |
| <bambam@nospam.tnx> wrote in message
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> Our Bosch dishwasher is leaving the glasses cloudy after a regular
> wash. We're using Calgon liquid soap.
>
> Tried increasing water temp and changing soaps. No luck.
>
> Also have a cloudy residue on the stainless steel door and body of the
> machine.
>
> Anyone got any cures for this?
>
> Thanks
> Ken
Try Ray's vinegar idea. If that doesn't work, does your machine have a place
for adding wetting agent, like Jet Dry?
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| After using liquid dishwasher liquid for quite awhile (with cloudy looking
glasses), I switched to cascade complete (large green box, powder). I have
had great results and am very satisfied.
Stephen R.
<bambam@nospam.tnx> wrote in message
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> Our Bosch dishwasher is leaving the glasses cloudy after a regular
> wash. We're using Calgon liquid soap.
>
> Tried increasing water temp and changing soaps. No luck.
>
> Also have a cloudy residue on the stainless steel door and body of the
> machine.
>
> Anyone got any cures for this?
>
> Thanks
> Ken
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| PipeDown 2006-04-03, 6:21 pm |
| Vinegar would only be effective if the clouding were due to hard water. The
residue on the door supports this theory. This seems to be a common tip.
One FAQ I saw suggests using more detergent than normal.
A water softner would likely solve the problem but at a high cost.
"JohnH" <johnharlow@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> RayV wrote:
>
>
> I've never used vinegar and my glasses come out looking brand new every
> time.
>
> Maybe something's in the water.
>
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| Doug Kanter 2006-04-03, 7:21 pm |
| "S R" <no email @ no spam.com> wrote in message
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> After using liquid dishwasher liquid for quite awhile (with cloudy looking
> glasses), I switched to cascade complete (large green box, powder). I
> have had great results and am very satisfied.
>
> Stephen R.
I'm having no problems with Electrosol tabs, the ones with the Jet Dry globe
stuck to them. I have moderately hard water, as our water authority calls
it, so the Jet Dry helps quite a bit.
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| We always had problems with this in our previous dish washer. Soaking
glasses in almost boiling water with vinegar would remove the scale. After
the dishwasher motor burned out three years ago we got a new, nothing
special, plastic insides, Maytag and haven't had scaling since then.
Surprisingly scale can be caused by too hot water. also don't use excess
dishwashing detergent as some glassware can be etched by strongly alkaline
conditions.
From a web site: Scale and sludge may also occur due to chemical reactions
producing less soluble compounds as in the decomposition of bicarbonate:
Ca (HCO3)2 --------Heat---------> CaCO3 precipitate + H20 +CO2
Calcium carbonate is one of the most common components of scale and sludge
in untreated boilers and cooling systems.
<bambam@nospam.tnx> wrote in message
news:8tq232hnckma0bj7e4sc0v6n36h40f1ho9@4ax.com...
> Our Bosch dishwasher is leaving the glasses cloudy after a regular
> wash. We're using Calgon liquid soap.
>
> Tried increasing water temp and changing soaps. No luck.
>
> Also have a cloudy residue on the stainless steel door and body of the
> machine.
>
> Anyone got any cures for this?
>
> Thanks
> Ken
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| On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:41:27 GMT, bambam@nospam.tnx wrote:
>Our Bosch dishwasher is leaving the glasses cloudy after a regular
>wash. We're using Calgon liquid soap.
Is this for dishwashers? Use something for dishwashers.
>
>Tried increasing water temp and changing soaps. No luck.
>
>Also have a cloudy residue on the stainless steel door and body of the
>machine.
>
>Anyone got any cures for this?
>
>Thanks
>Ken
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| Vickster 2006-04-04, 1:21 pm |
| Just one more angle to add to this debate...
We had a similar problem with our dishwasher recently – and guess
what, it’s a build up of limescale. You can buy bottles of
de-limescaler in Tesco/other supermarkets that you put in the
dishwasher & then run through a wash cycle (without anything else
in the dishwasher) to sort out the problem.
We had to buy 2 bottles and do 2 wash cycles to really sort it out –
though it’s not surprising since we’ve had the dishwasher for 2 years
and hadn’t de-limescaled it once during that time!
Tesco do an own brand for about £2 a bottle, so it’s not too expensive
if you’re only going to need on average about 1 a year (although the
‘recommended’ usage is 1 a month!). Or there are other named brands
that are more expensive – we tried one of each and couldn’t really
tell any difference.
For future ref I will also bear in mind the info about putting too
much soap in though!
:-)
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| PipeDown 2006-04-04, 8:21 pm |
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"Vickster" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Just one more angle to add to this debate...
>
> We had a similar problem with our dishwasher recently – and guess
> what, it’s a build up of limescale. You can buy bottles of
> de-limescaler in Tesco/other supermarkets that you put in the
> dishwasher & then run through a wash cycle (without anything else
> in the dishwasher) to sort out the problem.
>
> We had to buy 2 bottles and do 2 wash cycles to really sort it out –
> though it’s not surprising since we’ve had the dishwasher for 2 years
> and hadn’t de-limescaled it once during that time!
>
> Tesco do an own brand for about £2 a bottle, so it’s not too expensive
> if you’re only going to need on average about 1 a year (although the
> ‘recommended’ usage is 1 a month!). Or there are other named brands
> that are more expensive – we tried one of each and couldn’t really
> tell any difference.
>
> For future ref I will also bear in mind the info about putting too
> much soap in though!
>
> :-)
>
Dishwashers are not a cheaper way to wash dishes only more convenient. We
pay for that convenience and we pay more for performance.
Translation: If you want cleaner dishes, pay more money or work harder.
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