Notes from the bench
Reading
Written after the job, not before it. Nothing here is a substitute for looking at the appliance.
- The checks worth making before you call Six checks an owner can make in ten minutes, with no tools, that narrow a built-in appliance fault before a technician is booked.
- Hollow cubes and a stalled harvest Hollow, cloudy or fused cubes are not cosmetic. Each describes a specific stage of fault in the fill valve, the mould or the fill tube.
- Boards after a summer storm Around sixty-eight thunderstorm days a year. Surge damage usually takes one function off a control board and leaves everything else running.
- Condenser fins and salt air Salt-laden air turns a condenser fin pack into a blanket. The symptom looks like a refrigerant fault and almost never is.
- What a column needs from its cabinet Intake, exhaust, clearance and a level, load-bearing opening. Get those wrong and no part fitted inside the appliance will fix the result.
- Grit on the top rack A dishwasher that cleans the bottom rack and not the top is describing its own fault. The upper wash arm loses its outer holes first.