<<wail>> ok so i've filled the dishwasher with salt, put in rinse aid and cleaned the filter, WHY are glasses still coming out milky (and getting worse)?

[Tutter]

eh, eh?

ideas most welcome...

ohhh, can't help but am interested in any answers cos my dw is behaving in much the same way atm....very annoying!

Your dishwasher needs cleaning. Take everything out and pop in some soda crystals. Run a hot cycle. If this doesn't work, do a hot cycle with washing up liquid.

For the affected glasses, fill them with vinegar/fairy/hot water and soak overnight. Or biological washing powder dissolved in boiling water (let it cool a bit first!)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

thank you tinkerbell

i did know this

i even have a bottle of dishwasher cleaner

but had forgotten completely that it had to be done

(doh)

I thought milky glass was permanent - I have a few - I will try tinkerbelle's tip! (Not the dishwasher cleaner, the vinegar/fairy thing)

But for future ref Tutter, if you can buy Ecover tablets anywhere (Waitrose sell them), try those - my glasses never get milky now

ah, but why then do you still have milky glasses jan

eh, eh?

From before, when I used Finish etc (that's what I mean about it being permanent, Ecover stops it happening but can't undo the damage already done)

hmm

ok

[almost convinced]

i shall try next time i run out, and shall report back...

Mind you my wine-glasses are the £3-a-dozen kind so it's not the end of the world

mine too jan

well, in fact they are the £1 a box rent-from-majestic that i couldn't be arsed returning

Oh well - chuck them in the recycling bin then!

they are scratched.

When you fill up the reserve with salt, make sure you don't spill any. Surplus dishwasher salt in the bottom of the machine can make glasses go milky. Sometimes it disappears... but not always.
Clean your dishwasher, see if that helps.

I don't put salt in mine though, LJ (soft water here) but it has happened anyway - maybe down to cheaper detergent or something, I've used various brands.

Ahhh - just googled and according to this decreasing rinse aid is the solution - and I don't use that at all either now, but I used to - there you go, Tutter, try doing without rinse aid!

If the glasses are pitted by the salt they are definitely buggered I'm afraid. But if you feel them and they are smooth then you can normally sort it out with vinegar/fairy (or viakal but that's fairly noxious so be careful with it).

BTW the dishwasher cleaning tablets that cost £3 each.....soda crystals and sodium laureth sulphate. You can achieve the same effect for 15p's worth of ingredients.

Go on, then - how do I make my own dishwasher stuff?

hi BP. I bought some dishwasher cleaner last week. My dw has scaled up so i filled with salt, added rinse aid and it was still not great. I bought the cleaner and did 1 cycle with it and since then its been sparkling.

bp it was finish dishwasher cleaner

I also find that my dw's arms can get clogged up (I'm assuming with salt crystals so i've switched to the salt in tablet form) and detaching them and rinsing them out really helps.

a fun job if you don't mind getting water all over the floor!