If you use your dishwasher on a regular basis throughout the winter, you don't have to do anything to get it ready for the winter. However, if you have a home that will sit unoccupied for the winter, it's important to winterize the dishwasher along with all of your other pipes. If there is water in your dishwasher--or in the pipes and tubes that it uses--there's a chance that the water can freeze, bursting the pipes and making the dishwasher inoperable.
Instructions
1. Remove any dishes from the dishwasher. You need it to be completely empty.
2. Dry the dishwasher with a sponge. In particular, soak up the water you find at the bottom.
3. Turn off the water main to your home.
4. Open all of the faucets to remove water left in the pipes.
5. Pour a half gallon of pink antifreeze into the basin of the dishwasher.
6. Turn the dishwasher on. Without water, the dishwasher will use the antifreeze, moving it into all of its tubes and pipes.
7. Shut off the dishwasher halfway through the cycle. The antifreeze will stay in the pipes and tubes for the winter.
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