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Why has your dishwasher stopped cleaning the dishes?

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Many times this caused by food particles clogging the screen or blocking the jets on the spray arms.

Find the screen in the bottom of your machine and clean it out. If this doesnt help, remove the spray arms and clean them out.
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Another common problem is that hard water deposits remain on your dishes after the dishwasher has run. This happens because many state governments have banned phosphate as an ingredient in detergent. So detergents don't work as well as before. Here's a solution that's all natural and contains no phosphate.
www.CitriClean.net

First answer by Chewd. Last edit by CitriMan. Contributor trust: 0 [recommend contributor ]. Question popularity: 1 [recommend question].

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