On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:53:26 -0400, Jay Hanig
wrote:

I live in a coastal community on a North Carolina barrier island in a
house I inherited from my father. I've noticed a film on the silverware
I've run through the dishwasher that is difficult to remove. Just
rubbing it with a damp towel won't do it but using Bartenders Friend
cleans it up nicely. Still, I shouldn't have to clean most of the
silverware that's been through the dishwasher.

I've tried running CLR followed by vinegar through it. I have tried
using Jet Dry along with the Cascade Powder I generally use.

The dishwasher is a Maytag MDB9100AWQ of indeterminate age. The house
was built in 1983 but the dishwasher has probably been replaced at least
once. It still runs very quietly and aside from the film problem, I
have no complaints with it.

I'm told our water here is very hard. I don't have a problem with rust
stains and anything you soap up rinses off very quickly. So what should
I do? Am I at the point I need a new dishwasher?



Jay


As others have said, probably from combo of hard water and
no-phosphate dw soap.

I've had good luck with combination of Lemishine (google it) and
switch from powder to the little combination detergent packs. I put
lemishine in prewash dispenser and the gel-pack thing in the main
wash.

The tip about running water in sink until hot is valid. Many
dishwashers with built in heaters (all of them?) only heat the water
on the main wash cycle. Running the water in the sink until hot
ensures the pre-rinse is done with hot water.

HTH,

Paul F.