Insight

Today the man came to fix the dishwasher. He fixes it then asks me if my dishwasher gets things clean. He tells me now listen to this part it's important. dishwashers are sometimes placed to far away from the water heater to supply water hot enough to clean anything. here's what happens you turn on your dishwasher water immediately starts filling it. it's cold water. yeah sure you set it on hot presoak but that water had no time to be heated before it reached your dishes so half way through the cycle maybe your water is lukewarm because it had to travel to far of a distance through the pipes it cooled off before it got to the washer so the water isn't hot until the end of the cycle when the water heater is good and pumping out the hot water which means your soap (which needs hot water to suds) didn't adequately suds which means you've basically just dunked your dishes in cold water, ran up your electric bill. Solution. turn on the faucet let it run til the water is as hot as it gets then start the washer and shut of the faucet and voila!! clean dishes. at this point I'm starring at the man with my mind flashing back over the years of hand washed dishes presoak, preclean, prewash to now at my age be told "hey lady you're doin it wrong."

this may seem trivial to some of you out there but if you're frustrated with your dishwasher that never seems to get anything clean.....hey you're doin it wrong.