The DD24S4I2 is the smallest DishDrawer configuration Fisher & Paykel sells in the US — one standard-height drawer, hidden behind cabinetry. Its most frequent installation problem has nothing to do with the appliance: drain hoses on single drawers are often run with too little rise or too much slack behind the cabinet, and the drawer […]

The DD24SCTX6 is the single-drawer 6-series machine, and single drawers of this vintage have usually done more cycles than either half of a double of the same age. That is the thing to bear in mind when deciding whether to repair one: the drawer itself is fine, but the parts that wear by cycle count […]

The DD24DTI9 is one of the integrated Series 9 doubles that Fisher & Paykel carried over several catalog years, which means there are a lot of them in kitchens and a reasonable spread of ages. On the older examples, the thing that comes up most is not a failure at all but accumulated neglect: filters […]

Not every Fisher & Paykel dishwasher is a DishDrawer. The DW24UCT2X4 is a conventional tall-tub machine with a drop door, and it fails in the familiar ways a drop-door dishwasher does: a vertical door gasket rather than a horizontal drawer seal, a single pump and heater serving the whole cavity, and a leak sensor in […]

Series 7 is Fisher & Paykel’s mid-tier DishDrawer specification, and the DD24D2CX2 is the standard-height Contemporary double from that tier. It is the configuration people most often buy when they want the two-drawer idea without the premium cycle list, and mechanically it is the same drawer architecture as the Series 9 machines above it — […]

Door hinges are the part of a drop-door dishwasher that nobody thinks about until they fail, and on a tall-tub machine like the DW24UDT2X4 they are carrying a heavy door plus whatever is loaded on the lowered door itself. A door that falls open instead of staying where it is put is a hinge or […]

The DD24S2CX2 is the entry point into the DishDrawer idea: one standard-height Contemporary drawer at Series 7 specification. Owners of these are often first-time DishDrawer users, and the single most useful thing to tell them is that the spray arm is a serviceable part with holes that block — a wash that has gone patchy […]

The DW24UDT4X4 is Fisher & Paykel’s Series 9 drop-door machine, which means more cycles, more options and more electronics than the Series 7 equivalent underneath the same tall tub. The extra control complexity is worth knowing about after a power cut: a board that has been interrupted mid-cycle sometimes needs a proper reset rather than […]

The tall Series 7 double gives the extra internal height without moving up to the Series 9 cycle list, and in the DD24DT2CX2 that extra height changes how people load it — taller glassware and larger bowls go in, and the load gets heavier. Runners and the closing mechanism feel that over time, which is […]

Drying complaints dominate service calls on modern drop-door dishwashers, and the DW24UNT4X2 is no exception. The useful distinction on this machine is between a load that is uniformly damp — which points at the heating and drying system — and plastics that are wet while china is dry, which is normal physics rather than a […]