Best Westinghouse Freestanding Dishwashers

A) Top cutlery drawer is beyond a joke. Middle drawer has to be at the highest setting for the wash arm to clear regular dinner plates in the bottom… Read more

drawer. Now, you can't fit bowls or glasses upright on the middle drawer as they hit the cutlery drawer. B) Cutlery doesn't get adequately cleaned in the top cutlery drawer if the middle drawer is more than 60% occupied. C) Nothing dries. Even using the sensor 60-70º cycle and having the door auto-open after a cycle, four hours later most things will still have droplets on them. Not a problem I experienced with my old dishwasher.

The only positive thing I have to say about it is the eco/quiet mode. You can barely hear it operating. But you'll have sauces left crusted on plates and cutlery needing a scrub and a second go round.

I was so excited to get a dishwasher with a cutlery tray and have more space on the bottom drawer, but this dishwasher is terrible. The eco settings are basically useless, they don't heat the water enough to clean or dry properly.

Its an OK dishwasher. Lots of settings, but its not the largest and made especially useless with the middle shelf height adjustments being too high… Read more

or too low to be useful. On the low setting, we cannot fit standard plates. On the height setting we cannot fit our cheap wine glasses or many other things we would want to put on that shelf. The level of tetris requited on this DW is much heigher than any we have ever owned.

I have read of others removing the cutlery draw to get more height.

Terrible only works on Intensive any other program just throws the crumbs around and they land and dry on the dishes. Show details

Longer term review, have owned the product for about 4 years, worked well and cleaned as it should, all good - until last 6 months or so and since… Read more

then it has started to trip out the electrical safety switch (RCD) whenever the weather is very humid. After a day or so and the weather gets less humid it will be OK.

Yes, have tested it and it's the only appliance that is tripping the RCD (it's not combined earth leakage from this dishwasher and other things on the same circuit) as I've checked it by running it to a single (recently installed) powerpoint, which is on it's own new RCD circuit-breaker - and it alone trips it.

I know many appliances have a small amount of earth leakage (e.g. 1-3 mA) and may get worse as they age and when humidity is high (dry = better insulation) (most RCDs trip when there is 30 mA or more electrical earth leakage). I also realize dishwashers are particularly prone to earth leakage as their heating element get older then micro-fractures may develop in the insulation which allow it to absorb moisture from air when humid and which can allow enough electrical current leakage to trip the RCD - but I've had a few dishwaters and a couple have done this, but this is by far the worst example I've come across.

So, I guess I'm up to replacing the heating element (which is part of the inline pump), which will probably only last a couple of years before getting the same issue.