Appliance Repair

Dishwasher Suds: A Quick Fix

When liquid dish soap gets used in a dishwasher, the result can be a floor full of suds and a time-consuming cleanup. Richard Fields demonstrates a simple trick using cooking oil to suppress the suds and help get the dishwasher back under control without repeatedly reaching for the shop vac.
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 It's Rick. I'm from Granville on Saxon in Orange City, Florida, and today I wanted to talk to you about a shortcut to help you out on a work order that I'm sure all of you get at times. When you hear or see a work order come in with somebody telling you their dishwasher is leaking and they mention the word suds, every one of you knows as well as I do that they have used dishwashing liquid instead of dishwasher liquid.

So what I've seen in the past in order to remedy this is guys going into the apartment with their shop vac, vacuuming up the floor, vacuuming all the stuff out of the dishwasher, running it again, vacuuming up more suds. I'm gonna tell you how to eliminate all of that. You can have the job done in less than a minute.

Cooking oil. If when you go to the apartment and the suds are coming out, you just put in one cup of cooking oil, it will kill all the suds. You will not see any more come out. You don't have any cooking oil? Ask the lady of the house, "Can I borrow some cooking oil?" This is where you wanna save that half bottle of cooking oil that someone left in an apartment when they move out.

Take my word for it, it will save you a lot of time. You can also get with your vendors or your carpet people and buy something called defoamer that will take it out, but this is free