My daughter put dishwashing soap in the dishwasher. We had to stop the cycle from running because it was overflowing. Any suggestions on how to clean it out would be appreciated.

A leaking dishwasher can be caused by excessive soapsuds. Excessive soapsuds are the most common reason dishwashers leak. Excessive soapsuds will cause dishwashers to leak from the door. Good dishwasher detergent will have no more than half inch of suds on top of the water. So any time your dishwasher is leaking from the door open the door, if there is more than a half inch of suds your problem is in your soap. One drop of hand soap, hand dish washing soap, or any other soap will cause dishwashers to leak. Now, I am not suggesting that you intentionally put this soap in the dishwasher because if you did the soapsuds would be from top-to-bottom of your dishwasher. Now if there are a lot of suds you can fix it by pouring vinegar or cold water into the dishwasher and running it, this will kill the subs.

This sounds like the dishwasher got the wrong type of soap. It is a real problem to get the wrong soap rinsed out..follow the directions given by the repairman..it may take 5 or 6 cycles... The jet dry is just an extra in this issue...it will be okay when the soap is fully rinsed out.

Are you using dish soap ? Dish soap will overflow everytime it is used in a electric dishwasher

It's just a matter of running it through rinse cycles without soap unit it clears, This can take 10 or more cycles.

MOST DEFINITLY You can put regular dish washing liquid in a dishwasher will do that every time take a few washings to stop run 2-3 times empty it will stop.

it is clogged

Sorry but thats funny!!lol About the easiest way I know to tell you is take a turkey baster or marinade injector & draw as much as you can out of the reservoir,fill it with water & repeat until you get very little foam when putting water in it.Fill with rinse aid & the rest will just have to work its way through.Should be fine after a few wash cycles.

There might be water in the overflow sensor. I unloaded the dishwasher and lifted the front so the dishwasher rested on its back. There's a narrow gray tube that runs down from the bottom right of the door. The tube runs into a white piece of plastic with some wires coming out of it. There is a rubber plug that covers a nipple on the plastic. Pull the rubber plug off. Mine was quite tight. Tip the dishwasher back onto its casters to drain the water from the overflow. Check to see if the dishwasher functions normally, then put the rubber plug back on.

you must rinse all the soap out the best way is to make the drain hose lower than the tub of the washer and run the garden hose into the drum and slowly rotate the drum as you rinse it out after a complete rinse you should run a rinse and spin cycle a few times and you should be fine.

both have a wax motor on them that needs to be replaced you just remove the panel and replace the wax motor is what its called