The blades on your rotor looked just fine. Certainly not enough wear to keep them from working adequately. These units are susceptible to blocked drain lines because the lines small diameter flex hose/tubing that catches debris. USING TOO MUCH POWDERED DISHWASHER SOAP IS OFTEN THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. It doesn't all get dissolved fully and creates a gooey sloppy paste that looks like mashed potatoes. Only use the minimum soap necessary and you will reduce the chances of clogged drain lines. Your idea for using weed trimmer line to "snake" the drain lines is "genious" and works great! Thanks!

Thanks Mark, totally fixed the problem and saved me heaps of money and stress. I’m not really a practical fixit type person, so when this worked, I was blown away at my success! Also, your instructions were so clear and easy to follow! Big thumbs up.

Brilliant mate! After 2 years without a working DW finally decided to tackle the problem. Your video worked like a charm and no doubt save me sizeable $$ as F&P won’t even start looking without a large call out fee.

Mark, you are a star! Used the strimmer cord flossing technique and a lump of mushroom later, the dishwasher was back to draining normally! Thanks for taking the time to post such clear and straightforward instructions, Ta again, Alan and Jane.

Thanks, this helped me to discover a toothpick that had found it's way into the inner chamber there. After removing that, back to normal drainage usage. To counter the haters, we love the dishdrawer style dishwasher.

I cannot afford Netflix, so these are the videos I watch for entertainment. This one is definitely a thriller.

Hi Mark, last time I called a tech it cost me $500 plus. Watched your video and found rotar ok but plastic, hair like gunk and a large plastic 1cm oval black button type device in the drain pipe where rotar goes. Cleared it using whipper snipper cord. Initially cord wou;dn't go through at all as loads of resistance. It took 7 attempts to get all the items out of the small section of pipe. Obviously the items were restricting the water flow in the channel. Whoop whoop, it works beautifully and nil cost. Thank you so much. Anne

This video was easy to follow. I did exactly all the steps and my dishwasher is fixed! I saved a lot of money doing it myself, wish I would have researched this sooner. Thanks for the help Mark - very much appreciated.

Thanks for posting this up. Until I saw your video, there was no way I would have ever been able to disassemble my dish drawer but after watching, I had a very clear idea how to pull it apart and replace the rotor. Thank god there wasn't anything more to it than the rotor, so many thanks for your help, it's working like a charm once again :D

Thanks for this video! My dishwasher works the way it should now. I also turned of the power to it and that cleared the old fault codes from memory. I appreciate you doing this. Thanks!

Thanks for posting this video. I found it very helpful. I managed to fix my issue. One thing that came to me while I was messing around with the rotor was that I knew the rotor on the other dish drawer was functioning. I did a swap, and when the drawer still didn't work I knew it wasn't a faulty rotor. in the end I used a plunger like someone else suggested and this unblocked things in about five seconds.

Really helpful video. I had been having problems because the installer didn't install the " high loop" high enough; however, after moving the loop up, I then had to cleaned up the accumulated crud. Taking everything apart as shown and cleaning everything really helped. I did start the washer, wait for it to fill and added a cup of white vinegar, that seemed to be cheaper than the citric acid products sold in the store for cleaning dishwashers...

Another success from clearing the channels under the impeller at ~6oclock and ~7oclock (to the bottom filter and main drain respectively). I used a pipe cleaner my wife had handy for some metal drinking straws. In my case - it was a little pellet of what turned out to be very compressed foil, from the wrapping around those little dishwasher blocks. Couldn't have been bigger than a tic tac, but those drainage lines are very thin. Thanks for the tips!

1/27/2017. Thank you for the video. Saved us a callout charge and other fees. Issue with ours was in the discharge hose. Plugged with nasty crap. When we unhooked it from the garbage disposal connection, there was a horrible smell. Sucked the plug out with a Bissell, then flushed it and all is good. Probably replace the impeller assembly as some point, but good for now. Thanks again.

Thanks for helping me fix our dish washer. A quick rod out of the waste tube from the rotor seems to have worked without needing new parts or engineer call-out. I would not have had a clue how to disassemble and get to the ducts/pipes before watching your video. THANKS!!!!

"There's a few things down here... That looks like someone's tooth, and some gunk. Hm." gold

Just wanted to say thank you very much!! I watched your clip and with the line trimmer and mini pump in hand gave it a good go. The top drawer till didn't drain the water. Swapped the working drawer rotor for the non draining drawers rotor and it worked!! I rang F&P to order the spare rotor and it turns out i get 2 free rotors sent out to me, due to the recall of certain dishwasher models. Yay!! You've made my day!! Bless you!

Thank you!!!! The pipe was blocked and thanks to your video I worked out I needed to clear it. I used a pipe cleaner. All clear and now working again! No repair man fee and only 20 mins of my time. Thanks!!

This worked for us. Thank you! Saved us a service call and a new rotor. We’ve only used ours for three months. Didn’t find any gunk and it all seemed clean, but apparently something was there. Thank you again!!!

Thanks Mark. Mum and Dad are going to be really happy that they will save on this fix. Great video.

Cheers mate. I Really appreciate you taking the time to make this video. I'm going to test the double draw Fisher and Paykel dishwasher that I have bought second hand for that particular blockage.

Thank you for posting this - I just fixed my DishDrawer!!

Thanks for this! When I took my rotor out, I noticed that there was some kind of plastic that may have been obstructing its rotation. Will be interested to see what happens next time I wash some dishes.

Thanks mate. Was about to give up but I finally managed to get the snipper cord down the drain hole. Lo and behold the dishwasher drained again. If it wasn't for you saying what a pain I the arse it was I would have given up. Took me about 100 goes to get it to feed through. Looks like it doesn't take much to block the drain tubes. Can't believe the filter actually does much...

Oh thank you!!! You've helped me solve the E2 error in the top unit of our F&P double dishdrawer, find and remove a piece of crockery blocking the rotor and clear a blockage from the channel. On top of that you've saved me a couple of hundred dollars. Champ!

Super helpful video on unblocking tube line in older model Fisher Paykel with the disassembly procedure. Will be tackling my blockage, or pump, issue later this morning. Thank you Ross.

Thank you for taking the time to do this - I'm going to give it a go, cheaper than getting a new one.

Thanks so much for putting together such an informative video!

Brilliant video mate - grabbed 5 bucks of weed trimmer line as suggested and fixed it myself! Only problem I found was that there were a few bits of crap REALLY stuck in that channel. So to fix that I cut off about 5 equal lengths of the weed trimmer line and gathered them all into a bundle and ran them all down the channel all at once - meant I could shove it quite forcefully down that channel and push the stuck bits out. Great stuff

Thanks matey, I found a piece of foil off a tetra pack stuck in ours.I had tried a bit of compressed air two days ago on very low pressure.Managed 1 load and must have moved the foil I guess..and it bunged up!All good now..used a very skinny and long cable tie (zip tie)!

Superb advice! Thanks for taking the time to post your experience. Your solution worked for me.

Thank u awesome. I was about to get new rotor but cleared the blockage first and it worked!

this is so helpful thankyou. This is the second time a piece of glass or this time a broken piece of plastic has got caught in the rotor well. Thankfully no servicemen required.

Thank you! Your method for cleaning out the drain is a good trick. Saved me a big repair charge.

Thanks for video. Brilliant home fix. Just fixed ours now, had to take the top drawer out. Ours is a DD60D but is identical to your system on the top draw. Could not stop the E2 code so did a reset and rinse and it worked again. Also did a clean like this video. All seems fine now

My line was blocked. I did not figure that out until I viewed your video. Thanks for sharing.

thanks dude, love your work! I would have probably done the same thing and switched the rotor out but this has saved me some cash!

Great video. Solved my dd24 problem. Hats off to you sir.

I now have a spare roter, the money I saved on a repair man covered that but I have learnt. The time I spent on mucking around with it was a different story but if it happens again, it will pay dividends. I like the DishDraw and will probably get another if I had to. Thanks for the roter advice.

Brilliant . Thanks a bundle! . Just got my quite old dishwasher draining again Obv saved $$$ not having to pay repair ,scrap it . It’s a double drawer so swapped rotor from working drawer to problem lower drawer . When it didn’t solve drain issue , knew not to replace rotor. Tried your method , bingo ...Mrs M USA.

Thanks for posting this - i found that tube blocked - Strimmer (whipper) cord was the perfect thing to unblock it!

Thank you for the advice with cleaning drain tubes. It worked and we saved some money. By the way there is only two drain pipes from our central pump out. Thanks gain

Thanks Mark, when I placed the plastic tube down the sink line, it opened a non return flap I could blow back from the sink connection that I was checking out all was clear. only while the tube held open the non return valve. The over filling of the powder pocket was another useful tip from another comment was helpful too.

Very helpful... Feel empowered to go forth and fix my dishwasher!

Thanks mark - Mine was making a horrible groaning sound and also stopped draining. I had figured out how to disassemble it but that was as far as I got. The short tube wasn't blocked but I didn't know about the other harder to find one. Shoved a bit of twisted wire down it and it was hard to get it in at first. The all of a sudden it went through. Must have dislodged something I think. Anyway put it back together, turned on the rinse cycle and Hey Presto .. it works. Awesome mate .. save me $1899 because that is what a new one costs and then extra to get it installed. Also the wife thinks I'm a genius now haha.

Thank you.Fixed mine without repairman. I switched my rotors and found the one that was not working.

Saw another video where a lady used a plunger to clear the hole. She removed the rotor, added more water to the drawer and plunged the rotor well - gunk came out and cleared. Smart idea.

Amazing video!! We could never have done this without you!

Having water build up in my DishDrawer, I siphoned it out with some 5mm o/d clear plastic tubing. I also used the same tube to rod out the passage between the rotor and the drain filter. And of course you can also blow through the tube to dislodge obstructions. How to siphon: Prepare by getting together a suitable length of tubing and a pan or bucket to drain into. Fill the tubing with clean water and pinch both ends between fingers and thumbs to prevent the water draining out. Insert one end into the drain hole in the machine and the other end into your pan, which MUST be lower than the Drawer bottom. Release both ends and the water should drain from the machine into the pan. Filling the tubing with clean water means you don't have to suck it to start the siphoning, however if it doesn't work first time and you have to suck, at least you won't get a mouthful of filthy dishwater, which is what would happen if you used an empty tube. PS: I am currently waiting for the serviceman to come back and fix my machine due to an F1 error code, but without the flooding that this is supposed to signal. He replaced the circuit board two days ago (second time in six months), tested it OK and now it won't start. Bother!

Thank you Mark, this was very helpful and saved me quite a bit of money!

I had exactly the same problem. Took the rotor out and attacked it with an old fashioned plunger...went hard and a piece of bone eventually shot out! Perfect.

Thank you sooo much. I have the same vintage dishdrawers and had this same problem. This cleared it up.

This was wonderful, showed me what i had to do, and fixed the problem, thankyou so much

You helped us fix our dish drawer issue! Thank you!!

Worked great!! Saved me a service call. Thanks. :)

Thank you for your instructions very helpful!

Brilliant!! Many thanks for your video. Worked for me, very helpful.

Thanks from the states! Saved me 500 bucks at least.

Hi. Thanks for the video and showing how easy it is to replace to rotor.

You should get a helpful citizen medal for this - thanks a lot!

Thanks for the Video. I learned quite a bit by watching the video. Thanks again.

Thanks. I used your video to fix my dishwasher!

Thanks for saving me $. We used a wire hanger to thread through the line. We had a popcorn kernel stuck.

Great to watch your video and I had the same probem and ending up blowing compresser air trough plastic outlet hose worked really well to clear blockage

Thank you very very much for saving me time and money!

Many thaks for this video Mark. Sure have save me a lot of money and time.

This was a helpful and very useful video. Your video saved me money. Thanks.

Thank you very much for sharing. This was extremely helpful and saved lots of $$ 😊

Top Man, many thanks for sharing this.

In another video they used a plunger to clear drain line . I'll try both methods today ! Thank you! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Thank you; it help enormously.

Your are a life saver!! Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!!

Just what I needed. Thanks

Good job Mark, good on ya.

legend worked a treat

Yay! Fixed! Thanks so much.

Excellent video !!!

Thanks for posting this, mate. Really helpful. Saved money and the strong likelihood of me losing my shit at a dogshit appliance. Much appreciated...👍🏼👍🏼

You can also use 1/4 inch pex pipe (the water line your fridge uses) to clear the drain lines.

Thank you for the Video, I owe you a beer if you come to Australia

The hole that goes to the drain pipe ( or sink as described) has a small rubber flap in it which is a non return valve. If you poke whipper snippet coed or anything else in there you will damage it Best to remove the draws ( it’s quite easy) flip them over, remove the covers from below the tubs ( but tricky) and disconnect the drain hose and check it. You will see the non return valve in the hose coupling

Thanks so much, saved $100 or 2, Cheers.

Great stuff !!!

Thank you for the video. I went through the similar exercises other then replacing the rotor, but it didn't help... I only was able to pass the wire for about 70 cm though..

Another thing to try - Disconnect the drain hose from the bottom the sink. Hold a vacuum cleaner to the drain hose to dislodge the blockage.

Awesome thank you!

Thanks, you saved me some $$!

Thanks mate. I’ve managed to fix my dishwasher after watching your video. Happy not to vall a repairman 🤗

Awesome! thanks for doing this video, saved me a lot of money, thanks heaps! (disappointed that tooth fairies are not going the extra mile, there should have been some coins there too :-D)

Thanks, I don't have a problem now, but if it happens I know what to look for.

thank you very much for your video, I could fix the dishwasher by myself

The first diagnostics of any fix is the physical. So take off the draw, you will need something to rest it on it has almost no slack in the pipes. Open the plastic cover underneath, remove the outbound hose and blow down it. Watch out for the rubber valve. It should blow easily. If not you need to airline it or rod it. Do this towards the tub too as in this vid. Now you have eliminated all the free fixes before spending £100 on unnecessary parts. This has fixed mine twice. If you need advice on this, reply here.

Saved me big service call $!!! Thanks! My motor was bad - someting chewed the fins off of it. When I compared it to the motor in the lower drawer, it was obviously broken. New part on the way.

Thanks for your help. My water is not draining because the little rubber thing at the bottom of the salt cellar is stuck somewhere. I am going to see if I can find it in the holes.

Life saver man cheets

7:55 grab that whipper snipper cord, I dunno why but I found that funny

thank you Mark

Thank you!

At 1:05 "Anti-Clockwise" = Down-Under term for "counter-clockwise" LOL! How Charming!

Damn, Mike, what're you washing in there, shoes? That was some dirty water.