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title: "Dishwasher drying and heat repair"
description: "Electrolux dishwasher drying and heat repair: plastics coming out wet is normal on these machines and worth saying plainly — they dry with residual heat…"
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/services/dishwasher-drying-and-heat-repair/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Electrolux dishwasher drying and heat repair

### Wet plastics are the design, and we will say so

These machines dry with residual heat rather than a blast of hot air. Ceramic and glass hold enough warmth to evaporate what is on them; plastic holds almost none, cools immediately and keeps every drop. No setting changes that. It is worth being told plainly rather than paying for a visit to find out, and it is why the first question on this job is what exactly is wet — plastics only, or everything. Only the second is a repair.

What this involves

Wet plastics are the design, not a failure — we will say so

Everything wet, or a permanent Hd, is the heater or its control

Running the tap hot first removes most of the delay

Establish what is wet

Plastic only, or everything. The first is how the machine works; the second is a repair.

Time the Hd delay against the water temperature

One to two minutes per degree is the maker's own figure, and it makes a long delay explainable rather than mysterious.

Test the heater and its thermostat cold

A heater that never comes on and a control that never asks for it look identical from outside the machine.

### My old machine dried plastics fine.

It almost certainly had a heated element and a fan, which used considerably more energy. Condensation drying is the trade, and rinse aid is the only real lever you have.

### It sits on Hd for half an hour.

It is heating the water before it will wash, and this maker publishes the arithmetic: one to two minutes for every single degree of rise. Running the kitchen tap hot first removes most of it.

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