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Posted: Fri May 19th, 2006 06:35 pm

Monisa714
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My son put an entire bottle of dishwashing liquid soap in the dishwasher. First, of course, I sopped up as much bubbles from the floor and inside the dishwasher as I could. I then poured cold water into the dishwasher and let the dishwasher run it's drain cycle for about 10 times. Since I didn't have any oil, I used sticks of butter. I put 2 sticks of butter in the dishwasher (it still had plenty of soap and bubbles in it), and allowed it to run it's usual cycle. The bubbles dissapeared completly. After that, I added vinegar and allowed the dishwasher to run another cycle. Problem solved, but not without headache. Thnx all for your posts and suggestions, I now know what to do if this happens again!

Posted: Tue Jul 4th, 2006 02:06 pm

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big d
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Wow. Thanks a million. The cooking oil trick really worked. I love the internet. Got a problem. Find a solution. BRAVO.

Big D

(I was going to try to bar of soap idea...but the little curly but hair thing pushed me in another direction)

Posted: Mon Jul 24th, 2006 04:17 am

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not so handy man
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I put too much non-HE detergent in my front-load clothes washer (Maytag Neptune). The excessive suds fools something in the machine and it won't complete the cycle. I didn't want to put cooking oil in the machine, so I mixed vinegar and water and that killed all the suds.

It's running again now. hopefully that is the end of it. I don't want another repair bill.

Posted: Wed Aug 2nd, 2006 07:08 pm

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im 18 and new to dish washers, when i put dishwashing liquid on my hat(to clean it) and put that in dishwasher 20 mintues later soap suds went out of dish washer&all over kitchen, i cleaned all that up my mom cleaned up dishwasher but is dishwasher still gonna work??? please explain everything

Posted: Thu Nov 9th, 2006 05:04 am

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Aussie Andy
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Hiya. I have a similar problem to the washing up detergent in the dishwasher, only a little more complex perhaps. ( I am hoping easier).

So last night my wife cleans the kitchen and puts a glass in the dishwasher that we were keeping the detergent in for the pans. Obviously we got the big bubble problem.

I cleaned up the mess and noticed that the bottom was empty, so let it continue to run. Several hours later, I woke up and went into the kitchen to notice that the dishwasher pump was still running.

I can only turn it off at the wall switch and have tried both vinegar and vegetable oil. The drain pump is working well, and I have flushed the dishwasher with about 40 litres of water (10 gal).

Now Im flummoxed. Anyone got any ideas? There is not a drain valve visible in the dishwasher. It is an Australian design Dishlex Global 300.

Andy

Posted: Sat Dec 30th, 2006 11:59 pm

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The oil did the trick. I glopped some in my dishwasher after my bf put regular dishwashing detergent in the dishwasher. It is clear and running properly now. Thanks.

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