--- title: "Dishwashers and DishDrawers" description: "Fisher and Paykel dishwashers and DishDrawers: fifty-one machines, and forty of them are drawers." url: "https://fisherpaykelmiami.support/appliances/dishwasher/" date_modified: "2026-08-26" Appliance type: "Dishwashers and DishDrawers" --- # Fisher & Paykel dishwashers and DishDrawers ### Forty drawers and eleven doors Of the fifty-one dishwashing machines this maker lists for the United States, **forty are DishDrawers** — sixteen tall doubles, fifteen tall singles, five doubles and four singles — and eleven are conventional **drop-door** dishwashers, built-in and integrated. All are 24 inches. Twenty-two of the fifty-one are Integrated, which means the front you see is your own cabinetry. ### What we are called out for - **Detergent left in the dispenser**, the maker’s own most-linked article, and mostly not a repair. - **Not cleaning properly**: filter, spray arm, water temperature, or a load that blocked the arm. - **Not draining**, which on a drawer is the filter and the drain path far more often than the pump. - **Leaking**, which on a drawer means the lid seal, the drawer seal or the connections behind — a different list from a door machine. - **The lid motor**, which is specific to a drawer and has no equivalent in any other dishwasher. - **Controls not responding**, wet fingers and a locked panel being the first two things to rule out. - **The fan running after the cycle**, which is the drying fan and is meant to. ### The codes, and why they are on two separate lists A DishDrawer publishes **A conditions** — water supply, drainage, spray arm, foam recovery, sanitize temperature, element overheat — with instructions an owner can follow, and **F conditions** reported as a flashing pattern, covering the rotor, the lid motor, the heating element, the drying fan, the fill valve and the two controllers. The drop-door machines use an entirely different **E and F** set. Our code pages are keyed to the machine, not to the number, because the same number means different things on the two. ### What to have ready when you call The model number, whether it is a drawer or a door, which drawer on a double, and — if it is beeping — which indicator lights are on. Single DishDrawer · Double DishDrawer · Tall · Drop door · Integrated · Series 5 · 7 · 9 · 11 · 24" Dishwasher repair Detergent still sitting in the dispenser at the end of a cycle A drawer that stops mid-cycle, beeps, and flashes its modifiers Water under the machine, or a drawer that will not drain Forty drawers and eleven doors Of the fifty-one dishwashing machines this maker lists for the United States, forty are DishDrawers — sixteen tall doubles, fifteen tall singles, five doubles and four singles — and eleven are conventional drop-door dishwashers, built-in and integrated. All are 24 inches. Twenty-two of the fifty-one are Integrated, which means the front you see is your own cabinetry. What we are called out for Detergent left in the dispenser, the maker’s own most-linked article, and mostly not a repair. Not cleaning properly: filter, spray arm, water temperature, or a load that blocked the arm. Not draining, which on a drawer is the filter and the drain path far more often than the pump. Leaking, which on a drawer means the lid seal, the drawer seal or the connections behind — a different list from a door machine. The lid motor, which is specific to a drawer and has no equivalent in any other dishwasher. Controls not responding, wet fingers and a locked panel being the first two things to rule out. The fan running after the cycle, which is the drying fan and is meant to. The codes, and why they are on two separate lists A DishDrawer publishes A conditions — water supply, drainage, spray arm, foam recovery, sanitize temperature, element overheat — with instructions an owner can follow, and F conditions reported as a flashing pattern, covering the rotor, the lid motor, the heating element, the drying fan, the fill valve and the two controllers. The drop-door machines use an entirely different E and F set. Our code pages are keyed to the machine, not to the number, because the same number means different things on the two. What to have ready when you call The model number, whether it is a drawer or a door, which drawer on a double, and — if it is beeping — which indicator lights are on. ### What is actually different about a DishDrawer? It seals from above rather than in front. Instead of a door with a gasket around it, a lid is driven down onto the top of the drawer by a lid motor and held there for the cycle. Everything follows from that: there is a lid motor to fail, the seal is horizontal and collects what falls on it, and on a double you have two complete wash systems — two rotors, two controllers, two filters — in one cabinet. It is why a double can have one drawer working perfectly while the other is out, and why "my dishwasher is broken" needs the follow-up question of which drawer. ### Detergent is still in the dispenser after the cycle. This is the single most common thing owners of these machines write to the maker about, and three of the four causes cost nothing to fix. Moisture in the dispenser before the tablet went in will make it stick. A dish leaning over the dispenser will stop the cover opening. Low water temperature or a short cycle can end before the tablet has dissolved. What is left — a dispenser latch or its solenoid — is a real repair, but it is worth ruling out the first three before booking anybody. ### The drawer is beeping and the lights are flashing but there is no number. That is the code. A DishDrawer has no numeric display, so it reports by pattern: if the wash modifier and lock indicators flash together it is an F condition, and if only the modifiers flash it is an A condition, with one or more program lights lit alongside. Note which lights are on before you clear it — that pattern is the diagnosis. The A conditions have published meanings and several of them you can clear yourself; the F conditions are the ones that need somebody. ### It is producing a lot of foam. Almost always detergent quantity, and it matters more on a drawer than on a full-size machine because the wash chamber is small. The maker's own instruction is a teaspoon at most for these, and the machine has an auto-recovery program that will run itself to clear foam before it gives up. If foam is still there at the end of a cycle run with the right dose, that is worth looking at — a rinse aid dispenser leaking into the wash is a common cause and an easy one. ### Is a drop-door Fisher & Paykel dishwasher a different repair? Yes, and there are eleven of them in the line. They are conventional in shape — a door, a single tub, two racks — and they use a different code vocabulary from the drawers: an E and F set with a published meaning for each, rather than the drawers' flashing pattern. Both are on this page, and the code pages keep them separate because a number that means one thing on a drop-door means something else on a drawer. --- **[Read full article: Dishwashers and DishDrawers](https://fisherpaykelmiami.support/appliances/dishwasher/)**