Dishwasher Odor
By ladym33
@ladym33 (10979)
United States
February 3, 2012 11:14am CST
As some of you may know my dishwasher had been broken for quite some time, but when my husband got his job towards the end of last year I finally got it fixed. It is working great however...
There is a terrible smell that comes out every time I was the dishes. I am not sure where the smell is coming from. I have completely cleaned the dishwasher out. I have cleaned it with baking soda and run a cycle with it. I have run a cycle with vinegar, and even one with bleach and still the awful smell. I have also made sure the area under the blade is clean, and the area under that mushroom looking valve is clean. I am stumped.
Does anybody have any ideas why it smells like that? How I can get rid of the smell? Has this ever happened to anyone else?
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3 responses
@Tresaqwe (376)
• United States
3 Feb 12
I am not sure, but I read somewhere that it very likely is not the dishwashr at all but instead is some other pipe connecting to the dishwasher and could very well actually be the garbage disposal it could be that when the dishwasher is going it stirs up water in to the garbage disposal causing odors. So perhaps you need to clean your garbage disposal out really good. I hope you figure out what the problem is.
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@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
3 Feb 12
I imagine that a repair man could offer you some pointers, but like Stowyk, I would stick with the tried and true. I use vinegar every time I run my dishwasher, about a half cup. They do make a commercial cleaner that has citric acid in it.
@hmkoct5 (2065)
• United States
6 Feb 12
I can't think of what it could be. I was going to suggest using the vinegar, but you already did that. Maybe there is something stuck in the hose that connects it to water supply. That's about the only thing I can think of. I hope you get it straightened out.
