--- title: "Dishwasher error code F-6" description: "Dacor dishwasher error code F-6: The machine believes water is where it should not be and has stopped itself." url: "https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-edw-f-6/" date_modified: "2026-09-12" Appliance type: "dishwasher" --- # Dishwasher error code F-6 ### What F-6 means on this make The machine believes water is where it should not be and has stopped itself. Under a panel-ready door in a fitted kitchen, that intervention is worth a great deal: the alternative is water finding the joinery and the floor below. It should never be reset and re-run to see whether it recurs. Either there is a leak, or the float or its switch has failed — and the first has to be excluded before the second is assumed. ### 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 - Turn the water off at the supply valve and leave the machine alone. - Look for water in the base tray and under the adjacent cabinets before anything is reset. - Do not clear and re-run this code. If there is a leak, the machine stopping is the only good news in it. - The float, the switch and the sources above them are checked as one job. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher leak repair](/services/dishwasher-leak-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-6 means on this make The machine believes water is where it should not be and has stopped itself. Under a panel-ready door in a fitted kitchen, that intervention is worth a great deal: the alternative is water finding the joinery and the floor below. It should never be reset and re-run to see whether it recurs. Either there is a leak, or the float or its switch has failed — and the first has to be excluded before the second is assumed. 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 Turn the water off at the supply valve and leave the machine alone. Look for water in the base tray and under the adjacent cabinets before anything is reset. Do not clear and re-run this code. If there is a leak, the machine stopping is the only good news in it. The float, the switch and the sources above them are checked as one job. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is dishwasher leak 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-6](https://dacormiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-edw-f-6/)**