What is wrong with my glasses? Pic attached.

[Summerslimtime]

My glasses are all completely wrecked by my dishwasher. We have a fancy water softener installed with block salt, and use all in one dishwasher tablets. Where am I going wrong??

I live in a hard water area BTW

I live in a very hard water area, use gel tablets, rinse aid and salt and my glasses always go like this. Like others, I hand-wash the good ones and assume I'll be changing the others after a year or so when they've got too cloudy.

Do you rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. Apparently you shouldn't as a lack of dirt on dishes means the detergent attacks your glasses instead.

I live in a hard water area, use fairy platinum, and never rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. I've never experienced this problem.

If you're not using rinse aid and salt, this is what you'll get.

We do rinse the plates, yes! We shouldn't need salt as have a water softener. I think maybe it's too soft. I have bought some rinse aid. We only use the short cycle since the CoL crisis- maybe it's that.

I've had this. Water softener for years. Really I shouldn't be so lazy and should just hand wash glasses I care about.

Don't rinse your plates as the detergent needs something to work on. Scrape food off but don't rinse. Adjust your salt function down to account for the softness of your water

When we lived in a soft water area, we didn't use salt or rinse aid, but Finnish left our glasses like yours. Supermarket tablets didn't.

Now in a hard water area, we do have to use salt. I don't use rinse aid, and glasses come out clean.

I suspect it's a combination of water softener and the detergent you are using. Maybe use less? We only needed half a tablet with soft water unless we were washing a lot of greasy dishes.

We have this too, and my friend who works in a pub told me that the pubs use a glass restorer to remove these marks every now and then. So there’s some kind of chemical you can get that makes them look like new again (can’t remember what it’s called). It’s not related to water hardness though.

@Summerslimtime I have a mains water softener too. I always have to use both salt and rinse aid