Good Morning,
I am perplexed , hopefully someone here can help, bear with the length of this it might get wordy..
Our dishwasher braided line began leaking under the sink I assumed something had likely punctured it so I began to remove it, made mental notes of 2 things that are now possible clues to the mystery,
1: when I unscrewed the connection under the sink the location where the line looped and made contact with itself seemed stuck together, and I felt a barb of the braid...upon inspection it looked like something possibly dripped on it...
2: when I unscrewed the connection under the dishwasher the line emitted a strong chemical smell...
Ok, so I tossed it aside and proceeded to install a brand new line , all went beautiful no leaks at all, I didn't run the dishwasher after install only opened water line, and turned breaker back on, I left for an hour , returned and found a small puddle.... said WTF to myself, and checked all connections ,, everything is dry... I then trace the line by eye and see the braided line leaking under right rear where it exits cabinet entering under dishwasher... how could this be ?? its brand new !!
So I cut the power, uninstall line and find the line has a glob that looks ike a glob of glue but is actually melted,(see pic)
my memory of the first line had similar marks so I retrieved it from trash , and sure enough it did, but the location seemed to be different, also remember the 2 clues above...
So.... I unhook electrical , drain and remove dishwasher from cabinet to do some detective work, expecting to easily fine the culprit..
.No Such Luck...
all I can see I laid out the new line and traced the run to see where the melted spot could've made contact , only possibility is the frame of dishwasher....
the line isn't pinched , kinked or crushed back there by the frame , and it definitely looks like a melted cut line .
could there be any chance electricity is involved in this such as a stray current, short etc?? I am so stumped , any takers on a guess ???
thanks !!
I am perplexed , hopefully someone here can help, bear with the length of this it might get wordy..
Our dishwasher braided line began leaking under the sink I assumed something had likely punctured it so I began to remove it, made mental notes of 2 things that are now possible clues to the mystery,
1: when I unscrewed the connection under the sink the location where the line looped and made contact with itself seemed stuck together, and I felt a barb of the braid...upon inspection it looked like something possibly dripped on it...
2: when I unscrewed the connection under the dishwasher the line emitted a strong chemical smell...
Ok, so I tossed it aside and proceeded to install a brand new line , all went beautiful no leaks at all, I didn't run the dishwasher after install only opened water line, and turned breaker back on, I left for an hour , returned and found a small puddle.... said WTF to myself, and checked all connections ,, everything is dry... I then trace the line by eye and see the braided line leaking under right rear where it exits cabinet entering under dishwasher... how could this be ?? its brand new !!
So I cut the power, uninstall line and find the line has a glob that looks ike a glob of glue but is actually melted,(see pic)
my memory of the first line had similar marks so I retrieved it from trash , and sure enough it did, but the location seemed to be different, also remember the 2 clues above...
So.... I unhook electrical , drain and remove dishwasher from cabinet to do some detective work, expecting to easily fine the culprit..
.No Such Luck...
all I can see I laid out the new line and traced the run to see where the melted spot could've made contact , only possibility is the frame of dishwasher....
the line isn't pinched , kinked or crushed back there by the frame , and it definitely looks like a melted cut line .
could there be any chance electricity is involved in this such as a stray current, short etc?? I am so stumped , any takers on a guess ???
thanks !!
