How to prepare a dishwasher for winter

A dishwasher is used not only in a round-the-clock heated house or apartment. In the warmer months, the “Home Helper” can work normally in the summer kitchen or cottage until the end of the season. Having prepared the dishwasher for the winter, you can expect that it will work perfectly for the next season, but you need to know how to properly prepare it. We will study this issue in as much detail as possible.

If you do nothing?

There is always some water left in the dishwasher system, this is normal. When operating the machine in the warm season, you can ignore this, another thing if you plan to preserve the machine for the winter. Here you need to act methodically and first of all remove water from the system. Some people ask: why remove water at all, because there’s very little of it in the machine, well, it will freeze in winter and melt in spring, what’s special?

Even a small piece of ice carries a great danger to the details of the dishwasher.

In fact, water frozen in a plastic salt tank will simply crush the container. The same thing will happen with the nozzles and the bowl of the trash filter. As a result, in the spring instead of a working "home assistant" you will receive a defective unit that will require serious repairs. To prevent the machine from breaking down in the country at sub-zero temperatures, you must at least remove water from it. But that is not all. So that the case does not corrode, and other troubles do not happen, you need to make a number of preparatory measures, which we will certainly tell about.

How to remove water?

First of all, you need to figure out how to drain the water from the dishwasher. This is a simple matter, but you will have to disconnect the machine from the water supply, sewage and electricity.

1. First of all, open the machine door and empty the washing chamber from the baskets and trays.
2. Next, remove the trash filter and unscrew the cap of the salt container.
3. Spread a few rags on the floor near the right side of the dishwasher.
4. Put the machine on its side on the right wall and let the water flow out.
5. Thus, having removed most of the water, it is necessary to return the machine to a vertical position, and then fill the salt sink with salt for PMM.
6. We return the garbage filter into place and twist the cork of the salt container.
7. We disconnect the drain and inlet hoses, and then slightly tilt the PMM to the left side. A little more water should drain from the inlet valve inlet and from the circulation unit.

Now there is no water left in the machine. You can store equipment in cold weather. Nothing special will happen to her.

What else needs to be done?

When preparing a dishwasher for winter storage, is it possible to confine ourselves to draining water? In fact, draining water is one of the stages of preparing a dishwasher for winter, and if you do not do the rest, you can lose the machine. What kind of stages are these?

1. Cleaning the machine before storage with a special product. How to do it? Good is taken dishwasher cleaner, is poured into the powder tray, and then a long washing mode in hot water is activated.
2. After internal cleaning of the machine, you can drain the water as described above.
3. Next, you need to wipe the washing chamber and baskets well with a clean cloth.
4. And finally, we remove the machine instead of storage, leaving the door ajar.

Store the machine in a dry, clean place so that moisture and dirt do not get on the case.. It is not necessary to cling the machine with foil or packing it in a box.

So, neglect the preparation of the machine for the winter, in no case impossible. You can really lose the car and by the next summer season you have to buy a new one. Do not be too lazy to perform a number of simple actions, and after only a few months you can enjoy the impeccable work of your “home assistant”. Good luck