Necessity is the mother of all invention

I cannot believe how stupid I have been. For the last three years I've believed my dishwasher to be broken. As it's just me I've never bothered to replace it or get it fixed.

It's taken the sale of my flat and a request from the purchaser to be shown how everything works to actually investigate why the damn thing doesn't work. I feel quite foolish not to have worked it out before.

After pressing various buttons, which all light up, closing the door and listening to the water pump churn to no effect I thought about looking behind the machine. After removing the kick board and pulling the thing out from it's home under the bench I found the water pipe had a kink which was preventing water getting through.

It seems when my washing machine was plumbed in that the handyman put a kink in the pipe preventing water getting through and the machine from working.

Three years it's not worked, three years I a simple look under the sink would have sorted it out. It took selling the flat for me to do something about it.