In 9th year, still doing good, some more learnings

No major issues - that would require a technician to attend. Usual challenge of changing the softener settings in accordance with the quality of water coming in the tap.

One another issue that we encountered was the 16A socket was showing signs of getting heated and had to be changed with a new Socket. I changed the Dishwasher's plug as well as I saw some kind of wear and tier and bought both socket and plug from the same company so that they match perfectly.

Apart from that, the other day I received an email (I get decent amount of email from people who want to own or own a dishwasher) and one such person happen to be in my own locality and we thought we would meet to see why his dishwasher wasn't cleaning the vessels properly.

The person conveyed that he had been using the alternatives that I've suggested in the blog, however, his machine was not given a clean output. Since he was not very far from where I live, I decided to visit his place one day (that gave me a chance to post this message - probably my quota for this year)

And this how it looked.

I have suggested him to buy a Can (yes - 5 litre) of Vinegar and asked him to find some time to manually rub it with a cloth dipped in Vinegar. Using a liquid detergent would have helped superficially, however, when you run the machine after cleaning, you would encounter lot of froth which is not good for the machine.

While manually rubbing off the scaling and cleaning would help the machine to recover, the scaling in internal parts would take very long time to be removed [not 100% though]. 

Bottom line is

1. Even if you have good supply of municipality [soft] water, please ensure that the inner walls of the dishwasher looks clean and new. If needed run empty run with Vinegar so that the inner walls are always spic and span.
2. Regular cleaning off filter and arms are must.
3. Maintain the Dishwasher it would give you a longer life.