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Dishwasher blocked

  • 10-01-2013 10:49am
    #1
    Overthrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭


    Hey,
    Our dishwasher is blocked up, it's a really old unit made in a country that doesn't exist anymore :D (West Germany).

    We've tried Mr Muscle unblocker, left overnight, no joy. Before that we tried baking soda and vinegar.

    What would the next step be? Hoping to avoid having to call someone out.

    Many thanks for any help!


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well congratulations on getting over 20 years out of it*, :) where is the blockage?

    If it's the drain hose, you may be able to remove it without having to dismantle the unit then just clear it out with a stick.

    *East German white goods were mandated to have a design life of 25 years!


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Deleted User wrote: »

    *East German white goods were mandated to have a design life of 25 years!

    EAST German goods? You surely mean West Germany! I bought my sister an East German hair dryer for Christmas in the early 1980s, she told me I should have given her an oven glove as well because it got so hot she couldn't hold it in her hand!


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    coylemj wrote: »
    EAST German goods? You surely mean West Germany! I bought my sister an East German hair dryer for Christmas in the early 1980s, she told me I should have given her an oven glove as well because it got so hot she couldn't hold it in her hand!
    It was East Germany, the communist government put a higher value on raw materials and insisted that they weren’t wasted unnecessarily in "planned obsolescent" life limited goods.
    The design may had been awful, I don't know if the rules applied to small stuff.


  • #5
    OneIdea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭OneIdea


    Try taking out the waste pipe (clean the nozzle as best you can) take a deep breath and blow, if that fails PM @coylemj to ask his sister for a lend of that hair dryer :)


  • #6
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    OneIdea wrote: »
    Try taking out the waste pipe (clean the nozzle as best you can) take a deep breath and blow, if that fails PM @coylemj to ask his sister for a lend of that hair dryer :)

    I had to do this with my dishwasher. The outlet was completely clogged with fat!! Only thing was, if I was reliant on blowing it out I'd be there yet or have burst lungs! I put one end of the outlet pipe on the garden tap and turned on the mains water. It came out slowly enough, like a snake of grease about 2 foot long.


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