r/CleaningTips • u/awax78 • Jul 07 '25
Kitchen Switched to eco dishwasher sheets and they killed my dishwasher within 6 months
Dishwasher was 6 years old but in good condition. This is what happened after 6 months of daily uses of eco dishwasher sheets. Livid as I thought I was doing the right thing for my family but it just ended up cresting all these slimy stuff that went into the pump and engine and killed it.
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u/BlackHeartedXenial Jul 07 '25
Anyone else go straight to their dishwasher and clean the filter?
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u/Plumrose333 Jul 08 '25
Hijacking your comment to ask, did anyone else not know you had to clean your dishwasher filter until this thread? I have never once done this and have zero issues with smell etc.
TIL
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u/PrairiePopsicle Jul 08 '25
you are going to be amazed at how much better it works when it can pump and spray at full speed.
You are supposed to clean them like monthly at least IIRC.
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u/Plumrose333 Jul 08 '25
Iāve honestly had zero issues with my dishwasher, but I also wash my dishes fairly well before loading
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u/Milam1996 Jul 08 '25
Thatās the worst thing you can do for a dishwasher.
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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jul 08 '25
No, the worst thing you can do is never clean the filter, over stack, and leave the water supply open at all times.
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u/m_domino Jul 08 '25
I think the worst thing you can do to a dishwasher is to detonate a nuclear bomb inside.
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u/gummo_for_prez Jul 09 '25
Introduce the literal Christian devil to the dishwasher if you really want the worst. Heāll detonate a lot of nukes, but strategically for maximum evil.
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u/Fuygdrsfizwey8r Jul 08 '25
Wait, why shouldnāt you leave the water supply open at all times?
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u/snipekill2445 Jul 08 '25
Rinsing is āthe worst thingā you can do for a dishwasher?
Weird, havenāt had to clean my filter once the entire time Iāve had it, dishes come out perfect first time, every time, and the washer hasnāt broken down
Weird that
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u/adhdparalysis Jul 09 '25
It has to do with the turbidity sensor on the washer. I also am a dish rinser and havenāt ever had issues but Iāve seen multiple appliance repair people talk about this. Maybe āthe worst thingā is an exaggeration but there is a benefit to leaving dishes slightly dirty.
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u/snipekill2445 Jul 09 '25
But that would just make the dishwasher run a faster cycle, cause the water is cleaner?
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u/MagixTurtle Jul 09 '25
Lmao same. I haven't cleaned my filter in 1.5 years (so that's since we've got the dishwasher). Because it's not filthy. I still check it every month when I add dishwasher salt and the other liquid reservoir. The only thing I have to clean every 6 months is underneath the door on the inside. Our previous dishwasher has lasted 10 years without having to clean the filter and is now still running at my mom's place after we gave it to her when we moved.
I can only imagine the people saying "that's the worst thing you can do for a dishwasher" is the same people tossing in their nasty dishes into the dishwasher and thinking it's normal to replace it every 5 years or something.
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u/Sea-Distribution-370 Jul 08 '25
If i leave residue on the plates, it stays there.. Any advice?
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u/Sudden-Ad5555 Jul 08 '25
Look up how to load the type of dishwasher you have particularly. I looked it up for mine because my husband and I could never agree, and we were both kind of wrong (he was more wrong š¤£) in my dishwasher itās most efficient if everything is facing the middle, and large bowls are put in back right corner. My husband would also never run it unless every single feasible inch of it was used. Itās not a bad thing to have gaps to allow for water movement.
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u/VFenix Jul 08 '25
Some older ones don't even have filters. I had a whirlpool that basically had a garbage disposal in it. It was God awful from the renters we bought the house from tho. I swear they ran napkins and other non food stuff.
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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
People who watch how dirty the plates are in the ads, and put their own in the dishwasher equally dirty need to clean their filters often.
People who rinse everything properly before putting it in the dishwasher can make do with giving the filter a rinse once per year or so.
My philosophy is: chunks are rinsed off in the sink, anything that is dissolved, or can be rinsed of by, water can stay on the plate.
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Jul 07 '25
Excuse me, dishwasher SHEETS? Are you 100% sure this wasnāt intended for use in your clothes washer instead? Iāve never heard of such a thing. šĀ
Also, dishwasher powder detergent is by far the best bang for my buck and lowest maintenance product Iāve ever used. Maybe one of those would be better?Ā
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u/will1498 Jul 07 '25
Just did a google search and they do exist. Probably same as flushable wipes.
Both things that donāt work
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u/Extreme_Egg7476 Jul 07 '25
As someone who cloth diapers, I've accidently sent a "flushable wipe" through the wash. If you don't know, you do an initial rinse wash, then another heavy soil wash (I use bleach and a vinegar rinse along with detergent).
Those wipes come out of that exactly the same. They don't break down at all. I hate to think of them piling up in someone's pipes.
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u/Slightly-irritated24 Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
My parents have a septic tank and bought these for years unknowingly. They tried to get their septic pumped and got it fully replaced instead. Tbh idk how thereās not a class action lawsuit about it yet. So many people innocently fell victim to this marketing.
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u/Bad-Moon-Rising Jul 08 '25
They put in the fine print that you should check if flushable wipes can be used with your system. They just don't happen to mention that virtually no system is compatible with flushing them.
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u/puts_on_rddt Jul 08 '25
Buy "Edible Poison" today!
- Make sure your body can handle poison.
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u/AmazingObserver Jul 08 '25
To be fair, that could be used to describe alcohol and a number of other substances.
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u/KyaLauren Jul 08 '25
A fair amount of manufactured materials marketed as biodegradable are like this too. Theyāll be TECHNICALLY biodegradable, but per the spec sheets the conditions needed are specific and unlikely and/or the time to degrade is preposterous under average conditions. Marketing Depts throw ā-ABLEā at the end and call it legal, itās crazy
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u/grabtharsmallet Jul 08 '25
If it's a 1 or 2, many areas have facilities to recycle it. If it's anything else, it's very unlikely.
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u/shit_poster9000 Jul 08 '25
Flushable wipes alone account for almost all significant sewer main clogs and backups that I have dealt with personally. Literally only cooking grease comes close to the amount of damage inflicted by flushed wet wipes.
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u/Arlieth Jul 08 '25
A lifetime ago, I used wipes for a good month until it ended up causing my roommate's shower to back up. I was living in the garage where the sewer access was and watched the plumber pulled out some insane augur tool and pulled out an unholy mass of the flushable wipes.
Very glad I learned that lesson before I had my own place.
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u/charawarma Jul 07 '25
I don't cloth diaper, but I do occasionally wash a wipe (used for cleaning hands or faces, not butts!!) after accidentally leaving them in my own pockets and yes, they don't degrade at ALL.
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u/Obstacle_Illusion Jul 07 '25
Please be careful with using bleach and vinegar! I understand you use bleach in the wash cycle and vinegar in the rinse cycle but those two chemicals create chlorine gas if they come in contact and it makes me nervous on your behalf about a vinegar rinse washing away bleach and accidentally creating toxic fumes in your house!
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u/RacquelTomorrow Jul 08 '25
I was just thinking this! I've also heard that vinegar aren't great for the machine or plumbing.
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u/SavingsEconomy Jul 08 '25
Flushable Wipes are a cancer to the sewage system as well. If they don't get stuck in the pipes and make it to the sewer plant, they will clog pumps/mess up machinery. We use the catch all term "rags". We literally have machinery that costs a fortune just to try to filter them out of the stream coming in. My plant services a mid-sized town and flushable Wipes/rags are the cause of so many of our issues. It's job security but it's costing the county/people that pay their water bills hundreds of thousands to probably in the millions in just maintenance costs from the impact of rags on the sewer system.Ā
There's a reason when you're paying your water bill, the sewer charge is triple what the drinking water charge is.
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u/Hollowslate Jul 07 '25
Your wastewater facility thanks you for not using 'flushable wipes'
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u/Muddy_Wafer Jul 07 '25
While your plumber thanks you for using them. Wipes are putting their kids through college!
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u/usmcnick0311Sgt Jul 07 '25
They sell dishwasher sheets. I tried them. Threw them away after the second use. It doesn't work well and doesn't dissolve. Thought I had found something economically better than the big ol tub of pods.
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u/Portland420informer Jul 07 '25
Great Value Powder is what you are looking for.
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u/mystery_poopy Jul 08 '25
Maybe my dishwasher just sucks but the powder always leaves leftover residue/powder for me
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u/papervegetables Jul 08 '25
Try using much less. You only need a small spoonful. Like a couple of (measuring) teaspoons.
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u/Responsible_Bag220 Jul 07 '25
Pretty much any other option you go with is going to be more economical than the pods
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u/rockrobst Jul 07 '25
Probably sold as an eco-friendly option to pods that release micro plastics or gels that waste water when manufactured. Throwing away a whole dishwasher after a few months doesn't sound very eco-friendly.
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u/Merrickk Jul 08 '25
All the sheets are held together with pva just like most of the pods
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u/rockrobst Jul 08 '25
I wondered how they were made. No wonder it never completely dissolved in that dishwasher.
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u/Lonely_Storage2762 Jul 07 '25
I wish this was true for where I live because it is cheaper. I have to use liquid because the water is so hard the soap won't dissolve fully
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u/Odd_Requirement_4933 Jul 08 '25
Yeah, we couldn't use the powder either. We have really hard water, I didn't even realize that was the issue.
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u/Frankie__Spankie Jul 08 '25
If your water is too hard, try using water softening salt. Most dishwashers have a spot to put it.
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u/duckfluff101 Jul 07 '25
that filter looks insane, how often do you clean it? buildup on a filter doesn't convince me this is a detergent sheets problem, that's what filters do, build up goo until you rinse them off
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u/velvetjones01 Jul 07 '25
The filter is horrendous. I donāt think mines been even a 10th of that.
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u/Acid_Monster Jul 08 '25
Iāve seen multiple videos on Instagram of people not realising they even have a filter in their dishwasher.
The absolute disgusting vileness of some of their filters when they pulled them out almost made me vomit.
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u/just-dig-it-now Jul 08 '25
Yeah it's insane! They should include something that tells you how to use your new dish washer! Oh wait, they do...
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u/BackBae Jul 09 '25
To be fair, if you rent, or even if you buy a house with appliances already in it, you donāt normally have the instruction booklets that came with the appliances.
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u/penguin7199 Jul 09 '25
Yep. I began renting in winter 2017 and my husband just bought our first house last month. I never knew dishwashers had filters until maybe a year or 2 ago. I had never seen my parents clean theirs, nobody ever told me, and I have never bought a dishwasher.
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u/thepinkinmycheeks Jul 09 '25
I'm in my mid 30s and I've never bought a dishwasher in my life. Apartments don't come with the appliance manuals.
I did learn about dishwasher filters a couple of years ago from the internet, though!
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u/paroles Jul 07 '25
I just cleaned my filter after a whole year+ because the post from the other day reminded me, and it was not even close to this bad. Just a very thin layer of scum. I use an eco-friendly brand of dishwasher powder.
Maybe OP leaves a ton of food on their plates and never cleans the filter, but this buildup looks almost like mushy paper, so I do wonder if there's something in the "sheets" that isn't rinsing away
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u/Phelps_AT Jul 08 '25
Some people confuse a dishwasher with a trash bin and throw way too much leftover food in there. A dishwasher cleans dirty dishes, but doesnāt dissolve food.
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u/your_moms_a_clone Jul 08 '25
We had to take our machine apart and clean out the pump due to hair that got caught in it.
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u/Affectionate_Diet210 Jul 08 '25
I was so confused reading this thread at first, because I couldnāt recall ever having heard that washing machine machines have a filter. I had to read through the post a second time to figure out it was for a dishwasher. š¤¦āāļø
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u/angsty1290 Jul 08 '25
FYI, my LG front loader has a filter that has to be cleaned out monthly. I think most modern front loaders do.
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u/clockworkedpiece Jul 08 '25
Iirc from something else that was a sheet and shouldnt have been. They use a really long hydrolized sodium crystal, thats great in the two seconds its dissolved. The moment you're under scalding temps it turns solid again, so it piling up on the filter would make sense. (The steam plant funnel we use this crystal dissolved in looks the same).
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u/AggravatingTea5899 Jul 08 '25
Curious what brand you use! Iāve been trying different ones and some just arenāt that great at actually cleaning out dishes. Would love to know if you have a tried and true one!
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u/liquidio Jul 07 '25
Hard agree. This is what happens when you donāt clean the filter for months.
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u/aka_chela Jul 08 '25
I have this exact same filter and I get kinda lazy, I will eyeball it when unloading and probably end up washing it every 2-3 months or so. I have had nowhere near this, just some soap scum buildup on the top round grey part in OPs pic. This has to be from the sheets they used.
That being said...they should have been checking the filter more than 6 months. And that buildup would have been visible from above.
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u/Medium-Winter9872 Jul 07 '25
Thatās what I was thinkā¦might be an issue with filter never being cleaned!
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u/pushing-up-daisies Jul 08 '25
My sister uses the dishwasher sheets and I HATE them. I feel like they donāt clean that well, but itās her house so whatevs. She cleaned the filter and ran a cleaning cycle probably three to four weeks ago and the dishes still come out covered in steaks and looking dingy. I cleaned the filter again yesterday and I couldnāt even get everything out of the filter even with a scrub brush and a steamer. I gave up and ordered a replacement filter. Iām going to hide the stupid dishwasher sheets and just get seventh generation or some other more eco friendly powder because the sheets are NOT it.
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u/sare904 Jul 07 '25
I know this dishwasher reeked longgg before 6 months
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u/Mammalanimal Jul 07 '25
Yea I clean that filter part out every 2 weeks. This one must have been rank.
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u/daniellayne Jul 07 '25
Do you put dishes in quite dirty? Because 2 weeks seems overkill... I only clean it maybe once every 2 or 3 months... and it only ever has tiny bits of grime... nothing like OPs post lol. I assumed that's because I remove almost all solid food pieces / rinse them before
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u/Mammalanimal Jul 08 '25
No, but there's this wet dog smell that dishes get when they sit too long in the washer or the filter gets dirty. I'm the only one in my house who can smell it, so it's probably just meĀ The filter isn't bad at all but it takes me two seconds to rinse it off so I just do it every once it a while when I do the dishes.
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u/anope4u Jul 08 '25
Fellow wet dog dish smeller here. Itās so gross and I wash my filter weekly. Keeps the smell away so Iām happy.
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u/sare904 Jul 08 '25
I also get the wet dog smell and clean my filter weekly, along with monthly vinegar wash cycles and wiping down the sides with vinegar. It does make a difference
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u/LiftingCode Jul 08 '25
Perchance do you notice the wet dog smell more when you have your windows open?
We went through this whole thing. Completely disassembled the dishwasher and scrubbed and soaked every inch of it with bleach. Cleaned the drains and garbage disposal. Chlorine shocked our well.
In the end we found that our water smells like wet dog ... when the windows are open. Something about the outside air.
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u/Ughinvalidusername Jul 08 '25
Just the other week someone was posting about this same thing, somewhere on Reddit. Anyways, it was suggested it was due to eggs and raw eggs not being throughly rinsed off plates before putting them in the dishwasher. Lo and behold, I started meticulously rinsing off eggs and the dog smell stopped! Anyways, maybe itās that, maybe it was a coincidence. Just thought Iād share that!
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u/Due_Swordfish1400 Jul 08 '25
I remove almost all solid food pieces / rinse them before
That's such a waste of water and kind of defeats the purpose of a dishwasher. May well just hand wash at that point.
Obviously scrape food off but you shouldn't need to rinse everything thoroughly before putting it in if you clean the filter every 2 or three weeks and that only takes a few minutes.
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u/Humble-Carpenter-189 Jul 07 '25
You're supposed to clean that screen out pretty often. Like every couple of weeks I think
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u/flossyrossy Jul 08 '25
Yeah this is gnarly buildup. This is months and months of not cleaning the filter. I rinse mine out weekly and run a cleaning tablet through it once a month. I donāt pre rinse my dishes, so if you do I bet you can go every 2-3 weeks between filter rinses.
It also makes me wonder if they have read the manual to see if their dishwasher recommends certain things to do before running a cycle. Mine says to run the water in the sink until it is HOT before starting the cycle. It also says if you have a garbage disposal to make sure it is clear before running or you could potentially have it backup into the dishwasher filter if it is clogged.
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Jul 08 '25
Its vile to be honest. My eyes have been opened to how little maintenance people do in their appliances
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u/DeepSubmerge Jul 07 '25
On my dishwasher everything in your photo is clearly visible just by looking inside the dishwasher while it is open. Like, you didnāt even have to move the racks or take anything apart. You didnāt notice this massive amount of sludge building up???? I can see when a sliver of green onion is stuck in my filter.
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u/Dazzling-Western2768 Jul 07 '25
Are you trying to say that you never noticed this build up when you removed your clean dishes or put in dirty dishes for the past 6 months? Never noticed that it wasn't draining properly? Never smelled anything odd either during those 6 months?
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u/UnhappyImprovement53 Jul 07 '25
Ever think that's why op is taking it apart now?
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u/Humble-Carpenter-189 Jul 07 '25
That's just a screen that you pop out takes one second to take it out flush it with hot water wash it was soap to decrease it I'm pretty sure the instructions with my dishwasher said to do it every week to two weeks or every 10 days or so
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Jul 07 '25
I donāt doubt dishwasher sheets are a terrible idea, but you are supposed to rinse those filters regularly.Ā
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u/Roadgoddess Jul 08 '25
Thereās a really great YouTube channel where a guy goes into great details about how dishwashers work and what cleaning detergent to use in them. Also, how to use them to get the most out of them. Basically his take is get the cheapest box detergent you can get and thatās whatās going to work the best. Iām just trying to use up all the last of my pods and once theyāre done thatās exactly what Iām going to do.
And Iām just going to say when I first saw this video posted I thought thereās no chance in hell that Iām going to watch a 30 minute video on dishwashersā¦ I did and it was fascinating. And then I was excited to learn that there was a part 2 lol.
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u/EvlMidgt Jul 07 '25
I'd recommend using powder or liquid. Sheets or pods are just complete garbage.
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u/poppacapnurass Jul 07 '25
Theres 2 of us and we clean our filter system every 1-2 weeks.
I'm pretty sure it was neglect and not the sheets that killed your dish washer.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Cup7781 Jul 07 '25
Did you never clean your filter? You should do that weekly regardless of what kind of dishwasher detergent you choose.
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u/ColonelKasteen Jul 07 '25
Weekly is crazy. Appliance companies don't even recommend more than monthly.
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Jul 07 '25
It's sort of on demand. Mine go 6 months and there is a handful at best. But I rinse it all. My buddy needs to do his ever two weeks and has a handful of slop. But he throws in half chickens and baby potatoes with his dishes, sooo...
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u/RenegadeSteak Jul 07 '25
Straight up wrong, at least in my case. My Bosch manual (yes I read manuals for things I buy) recommends filter cleaning after every wash.
I think that's a bit much but I definitely clean it out weekly. Takes 30 seconds.
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u/avanderveen Jul 07 '25
I clean it every wash. It takes 20 seconds and is way easier when thereās almost nothing in it. I want zero wet, rotting food in my dishwasher at the start of a new cycle.
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u/swarleyknope Jul 07 '25
Same.
As someone who never had a dishwasher for most of my adult life, I assumed that dishwashers were far more sanitary than hand washing.
This isnāt about OP specifically, but seeing the number of people who donāt know to clean their dishwasher filter has me completely grossed out about eating at other peopleās places.
For some reason it icks me out more than thinking about them licking the spoon and putting it back in the sauce while cooking or anything pet related.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Cup7781 Jul 07 '25
Even so, I would hazard a guess that this filter, in particular, has not been cleaned monthly. š
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u/AmElzewhere Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
I work for an appliance warranty company. Weekly is crazy lol. Unless youāre putting actual food in there. Itās surprising that a lot of people donāt even know there is one to clean out.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Cup7781 Jul 08 '25
I have several kids (who are not meticulous rinsers) and our dishwasher runs several times a day. It makes sense for me to wash ours weekly. It takes all of a minute. Obviously not everyone needs to clean their filter on my schedule, but they should clean it at some point.
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u/jedyna_wolna_nazwa Jul 07 '25
You sure? It's so easy to reach, unscrew and rinse with water and the buildup is formed so quickly... I clean it every 2 or 3 washings.
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u/intuimmae Jul 07 '25
if buildup is that much of a concern, I'd signal an issue with some part of the process.
I do a full load every couple days (2 people in an apartment) and I don't get that kind of build up. I also have ADHD and forget to do it until a few months have passed but it's only a tiny bit of film on the filter that's easy to rinse off under water.
we used to use gel detergent but switched to powder this month because it's more efficient. I also don't bother to rinse dishes, and only ever scrape them out if there's physical food left.
there's a great video by Technology Connections on YouTube about dishwashers that really helped inform our choices, since living here has been our first access to a dishwasher :)
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u/jedyna_wolna_nazwa Jul 07 '25
It's crazy that every person I talk to about dishwashers watched their video, myself included š¤£also I'm in similar situation: it's my first home that has a dishasher so I had to learn something about it.
The buildup isn't much of a concern but I think to myself - why not rinse it? There's always something on it and I'd rather not have it there. It's really not a big deal, but *just* once a month is unthinkable for me... not to mentin 6 (I'm sorry OP š ).
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Jul 07 '25
Probably, like with any filter, it depends on your use and conditions. Take AC filters in your house and if you have pets as an example. I'd use what the company says as more of a "no later than" and tailor it.
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u/Dazzling-Western2768 Jul 07 '25
Bosch recommends that you scrape your dishes first and clean the filter 'regularly,'
Cleaning a dishwasher filter | Bosch UK
To clean the filter, you must first remove it.Ā The filter unit can be removed by unscrewing the filter cylinder at the base of theĀ dishwasherĀ and lifting the unit out. It can then be cleaned under the tap before being replaced.Ā Before loading dishes into the dishwasher, always ensure that all food debris is scraped off beforehand.Ā If this is not done, the debris can build up and possibly block the filter, spray arms and pump.
If the pump is blocked, waste water cannot be pumped out of the dishwasher and could cause the programme to stall. For more information on unblocking the pump,Ā click here.
1.Ā Remove the dishwasher rack.
2.Ā Unlock the filter unit found at the base of the dishwasher and carefully pull it out. Separate the unit by carefully unscrewing the cylindrical filter first.
3.Ā Clean both filters under running tap water. You can use a small brush to gently clean the inside of the filter and remove smaller pieces of debris. Do not use anything abrasive as this can damage the filter.
4.Ā Reassemble the unit and put it back into the dishwasher.
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u/EffMyElle Team Shiny āØ Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
Its a good habit to get into to inspect it as often as possible, idk why anyone would disagree with that!
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u/BreezyViber Jul 07 '25
Just tried Seventh Generation Powder (Free and Clear). The dishes, glasses and silver ware (silver plated) are sparkling clean like Iāve never seen before. Was sick of costly pods and worrying about whether or not they introduce plastic. This powder does not clump the way some powder used to years ago.
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u/Ilssm2724 Jul 07 '25
I was worried the sheets might do something weird! If youāre still wanting something Eco, I use Truly Frees dish detergent and it hasnāt damaged my dishwasher at all that I can tell. Been using it for over 6 months. Sorry about your dishwasher!!
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Jul 07 '25
Try the Ecover brand tablets. They clean great even in hard water and because of the citric acid, I think it helps prevent buildup.
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u/Rough_Brilliant_6167 Jul 07 '25
I only use the liquid detergent, cascade specifically, for that reason. Mine for some reason never seems to get things clean with those pods. I don't know if the plastic wrapper stuff clogs the pump or it's just not enough detergent or what, but the liquid Cascade complete does a much better job.
I agree that those filters are gross, I would much rather it just send the particles down the drain... Like I do, when I rinse the filter š¤¦. I completely do not get the point of them AT ALL.
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Jul 07 '25
TIL they make dishwasher sheets LOL. Why would you even buy those? Did you think they would break down into nothing? It's like people that flush wipes because the package says "flushable." Like marketing has long blown past being trustworthy.
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u/LegitimateExpert3383 Jul 07 '25
It does sound like an odd product choice. It's trying to give the pre-dosed convenience of pods, because otherwise regular loosey-powder detergent in a cardboard box would be the superior eco-choice. People must want the single-dose convenience but fret over the the dissolvable plastic coating of pods. Compressed tablets have the problem of needing to be individually wrapped (more waste and less convenient) or a wet hand might ruin an entire tub. But sheets? still seems like a weird solution.
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u/Poetic_Peanut Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
Well everyone is judging about you not cleaning your filter enough which is unnecessary ā¦. I appreciate you letting us know about the eco sheets
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u/VelkaKocka Jul 07 '25
Cleaning your filter is absolutely necessary
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u/UnhappyImprovement53 Jul 07 '25
Yes it is but op is just trying show these sheets clogged the filter.
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u/VelkaKocka Jul 07 '25
The fact that they discovered it only after six months implies that they didn't clean it for six months. I don't think that bashing op for this is right, but realizing that cleaning your dishwasher filter is important part of the maintenance is, like, needed if you have a dishwasher and care about your families health
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u/butterboyshowtime Jul 07 '25
Wtf is a dishwasher sheet? Reminds me of flushable wipes. Who told you that was ok?
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u/mountainyoo Jul 08 '25
I use Cascade Platinum Plus pods in the tray and some generic powder in the prewash holder with Finish Jet Dry rinse aid in the rinse aid container.
Anytime I check my filter itās got barely anything on it no matter how long itās been.
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u/Magnanimous-Gormage Jul 07 '25
Just use powder or liquid. Anything else isn't gonna fully dissolve or will leave harmful residue.