One would have thought for the cost of a small pip and stopper that this
should be fitted to all devices where water could get into such areas..
Cheapskate again I'd suggest.
Brian

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In message , at 14:12:02 on Sun, 11 Oct 2020,
GB remarked:
On 11/10/2020 10:46, JohnP wrote:
My Siemens dishwasher threw up a E15 Fault a few nights ago.
Thanks to YouTube I found a few videos that pointed me to the Aquastop
feature where a small sump triggers a float.
I gained access to it and sure enought there was water in this sump -
took
Wet & Dry vacuum and dried is all out and ran it a few times - no sign
of a
leak so I reassembled it.
What is niggling me is that,to many people, this fault would be
terminal as
there is no way to empty the little sump.
Perhaps the idea was that a service call would be made and the leak
detected and a repair made or the machine replaced.
I would probably replace the machine if there is a significant leak,
but I
really want to know if this was some sort of freak event, caused by
consensation, ot a small leak over a very long period.


I have to admit that I drilled a hole in the bottom of the sump of my
Bosch dishwasher.

In the past I've done that too. Put a plastic food container under the
hole to catch the drips, and it evaporates faster than it fills up (on
average).

We have a concrete floor, with vinyl on top, so there's not much downside
risk.

I found that a small leak on the seal round the door seemed to get into
the sump and stop the dishwasher. It's easily solved by giving the seal a
wipe with a scourer, but it's a faff to drag the machine out and turn it
on its side to empty the sump.

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