Dishwasher Problem - your thoughts?
 

Yes, I know I can go and buy another .... but I come from a time when you never threw anything out.

The Dishwasher has been spewing water out from under it. I have located the fault ... a hole in a rubber pipe connecting the pump to the upper running tibe which feeds the upper spray arm.

I tried putting tape around it - no good as the pipe size decreases in diameter ......

Had what I thought was a fantastic idea and went out to buy a Cyclists Punture Repair Kit ............ roughed up the area, glued a patch on - and it held well, for about 15 minutes, then blew off one side (the pipe gets very hot with the water).

I have looked for the pipe on the internet and have to buy the rubber part + the upper feeder pipe and couplings ....... £38 + Delivery! :eek: All I want is the lower 4" long rubber pipe!

Any ideas on what can seal a hole in a pipe pumping hot water, on an varying diameter pipe?

I converted my dishwasher to a snow plough in the end.






















Gave the bítch a shovel. :D

superglue?

Fill a bowl with hot water adding washing up liquid whilst filling. Use a panscrub, brush or similar to agitate dirt from the submersed crockery and cutlery, place on drainer and then dry with a tea towel. Usually takes less time than loading/unloading a dishwasher, and uses less water and electricity, and cheaper products. Win, win, win !

I have fixed holes on pipes with self amagamating tape, make sure the area is dry, roll the tape round the pipe ( couple of inches ether side of the hole ) the tape glues itself together, couple of cable ties at the end to hold the last bit down and this usually works, done a repair on a rubber hose several years ago and it has held fine.

expanding on the puncture repair idea, how about an innertube over a puncture repair to hold it in position, i would also use a quality sillicone sealant suitable for hot water aplications between the pipe and the innertube

You tight git :lol1::lol1:

ah ah brilliant -- started reading it thinking "fvck this sounds like a plumbers secret - fantatsic"

anyway what about using new pipe and reducing the diameter using a combination of cooper pipe, smaller diameter tubing and pipe clips/clamps

Has any green staining appeared round the hole? Sort of green dot like in appearance?

If so, I'd take the retailer to court.....

:thumb:

Second the above - have done this with success in the past, depending on the diameter of the pipe, after applying the tape you can cover the length of the tape with adhesive lined heat shrink tubing.

get a male/male coupling and a couple of jubilee clips. Cut pipe either side of hole, put each end on connector and tighten up clips.

Thanks all ..... the pipe is a reducing size - so impossible to get a good seal around it .... if you imagine a car radiator rubber hose that may reduce in diameter.

Self amalgamating tape looks interesting .. it isn't sticky so the info states, you stretch it over itself.

Heat shrink sleeving seem a great idea ... do they do it at about 40mm diameter?

Dishwashers
 

For the benefit of Corradoboy.

The new generation of dishwashers use 11 litres of water, they also use heat exchangers to save money. Some of them use less than a unit an hour in electric. Some of them are 14 place settings, so they can handle most things from 3 meals a day. The average water usage for washing up at dinner is 63 litres, this is for one meal. Mulitply the time washing up manually three times a day and loading and unloading the dishwasher once a day.

Oh and for good measure some of the new dishwashers are so quiet that there is a buzzer to tell when they have finished. It's no wonder with so little knowledge about dishwashers that we are the worst country for take up on these energy saving green machines. Also the dishwasher is far more hygenic than washing up manually, stick your hands in water that is 65 degrees and see how long you will be washing up.

Am i the only one thinking £38+ delivery is alot cheaper then buying a new dishwasher and trying other methods that will not last as long?

Get your wallet out , tight arse :D

Pete our old Philips (before they became Whirlpool) dishwasher did the same: Rubber hose feeding the upper spray arm had a tiny hole in it.

I tried everything I had handy from cycle puncture repair patch, silicone sealer, glue, tape, combination of all three to no avail. It was very thin and stretchy, almost like that of an inner tube - the pressure from the pump expanded it and I think the corrosive action of the diswasher powder plus the heat broke down the vulcanising solution. :(

Had to buy a new hose: £40 for a 6" piece of rubber inner tube and a 2 week wait as it was on back order :mad:

Well, it was either that, or do the dishes manually. Latter was never an option :D

Wipe a soldering iron over it to fuse it together.

D

Dip into your savings :rolleyes: . Hrm has saved yo arse once already this year

Ha Ha Ha ............. the hole isn't big - like yours was, tiny! I begrudge £38 + Delivery for that!

Whats a new dishwasher? £150 maybe?

I'll have a chat with the lads at work tomorrow .... I'm sure they will have an answer.

I have actually considered that ...... trouble is that it would reduce the thickness of the pipe wall.

If it wasn't the shape of a funnel it would be much easier!

Wrap a narrow strip of inner tube around the pipe and then use insulating tape wrapped tightly around that.

Repeat every 6 months.

dl

get some more hose and slide it over the top???

Try using a bowl of hot water and some washing up liquid like we always used to do. Saves all that energy and water too!

Les :)

I have thought of that - trouble is it's the shape of a funnel (and the large diameter end is the only one accessible) :(

Perhaps you could lay underneath the dishwasher and grip hold of the pipe, as tight as you grip hold of your money, can't see anything leaking out of something that tight :D

Cut pipe in two, insert a piece of copper pipe or similar, secure with jubilee clips and/or impact adhesive, water seal, inner tube glue etc.

Would that work?

:thumb: would be my first idea. thats what I did to my cars radiator piping when I was on too tight a budget to fix it and it worked a treat :D

its the shape ofa funnel - therefore cannot cut and insert another tube :(

So the pipe reduces in size, nothing that cant be fixed.

Your options are:

Does it have to be a tapering pipe? you could replace it with a constant diameter

pipe.(have you looked at that posibility)

Cut the pipe, pop in a reducer with a couple of jubilee clips

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Replace it with some Hep hose/ fittings. they couple just about anything to anything.


Mart

post a picture of the pipe ;)