--- title: "Dishwasher error code F-4" description: "Dacor dishwasher error code F-4: The machine tried to empty and the sensor still found water." url: "https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-edw-f-4/" date_modified: "2026-09-12" Appliance type: "dishwasher" --- # Dishwasher error code F-4 ### What F-4 means on this make The machine tried to empty and the sensor still found water. On this platform the appliance is very often blameless: a disposal plug left in place after a kitchen fit, a drain hose without a high loop, or a blocked standpipe will all leave water in the sump with a perfectly good pump. That is worth establishing before anybody quotes for one, and it is the first thing we check. ### Where this appears, and which table it belongs to On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all. ### Which machines this one applies to EDW and IDW dishwashers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door. ### What to do about it - Clear the filter and the sump by hand, then run a drain-only cycle and watch. - Check the disposal connection — a plug left in after installation is a classic and free fix. - Look for a high loop in the drain hose; without one the machine drains into itself. - The pump is measured only once the path beyond the machine has been cleared. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher drain and pump repair](/services/dishwasher-drain-and-pump-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. EDW and IDW dishwashers What this one means What F-4 means on this make The machine tried to empty and the sensor still found water. On this platform the appliance is very often blameless: a disposal plug left in place after a kitchen fit, a drain hose without a high loop, or a blocked standpipe will all leave water in the sump with a perfectly good pump. That is worth establishing before anybody quotes for one, and it is the first thing we check. Where this appears, and which table it belongs to On the appliance’s own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all. Which machines this one applies to EDW and IDW dishwashers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 5 of the appliance types this site publishes — coffee machine, cooktop, dishwasher, oven and range — and publishes none at all for freezer, microwave, range hood, refrigerator and wine cooler. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door. What to do about it Clear the filter and the sump by hand, then run a drain-only cycle and watch. Check the disposal connection — a plug left in after installation is a classic and free fix. Look for a high loop in the drain hose; without one the machine drains into itself. The pump is measured only once the path beyond the machine has been cleared. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is dishwasher drain and pump repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 363-6067](tel:+13053636067) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Dishwasher error code F-4](https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-edw-f-4/)**