On 10/30/2011 04:52 PM, HeyBub wrote:
Matt wrote:
My dishes are not getting clean.

The water is not getting hot.

I opened the dishwasher during operation and found that the heating
element was not hot and was not submerged.

Shouldn't the heating element be under water during operation?

Usually, yes.


What do you mean by 'usually'? For most dishwashers or most of the time
during the washing cycle?


Check the water float sensor. It sometimes gets clogged with crud such that
it doesn't move freely.

Pull out the float and remove the caked-on nastiness.



I did that a few years ago, and yes, it was completely full of nasty
crud, and so I cleaned it up. The dishwasher had been overflowing.


I checked the float again lately, and it was not cruddied up like
before. I think it works okay.