8
Before Using your Dishwasher
Adjusting the water
softener.
Water hardness varies accord-
ing to where you live. If the
water in your home is hard,
without water softening,
incrustations would form on
your dishes. Your dishwasher
is fitted with a water softener
which uses special salt to get
rid of limescale in the water.
Your dishwasher can adjust its
salt consumption according to
the hardness of the water in
your home. This way, you can
optimise and customise your
dishwasher's salt consump-
tion.
To adjust salt consumption, do
as follows:
1. Unscrew the salt container
cap
2. There is an arrow on the
neck of the container (see
figure): if necessary, turn the
arrow anti-clockwise from
the "-" setting to the "+"
setting.
Select the arrow position
depending on the water
hardness, referring to the
table.
You don't know how hard the water in your
home is? Ask the company that supplies
water in your area.
Filling the salt container.
Always use salt which is intended for dishwasher use.
The salt container is situated underneath the lower basket, fill it
up as follows:
1.Pull out the lower basket completely, unscrew and remove
the container cap
2. If it is the first time you add the salt, first fill the container up
with water (you won't have to do this again next time)
3. Put the dishwasher funnel on the hole and pour in
approximately two kilos of salt. It is normal that some water
comes out of the container.
4. Screw the cap back in place carefully.
When to add salt:
The salt container should be filled up when the low salt indica-
tor light flashes on the control panel.
When you have loaded salt for the first time, it is normal for the
low salt indicator light to stay on for at least 5 consecutive cy-
cles.
Salt
IMPORTANT:
Only use recommended dish-
washer salt. DO NOT use eve-
ryday table salt, cooking salt,
as they containe insoluable
substances which could harm
the dishwasher.
WARNING:
DO NOT pour detergent into the special salt container.
This will destroy the water softener.
Salt Tap
Hardness of the water
°dH °fH °mmol/l
Selector
knob
position
Salt
consumption
(grams/cycle)
Autonomy
(cycles/2 kg)
0 - 10 0 - 17 0 - 1.7 / 0 /
10 – 25
18 – 44
1.8 – 4.4
- 20 60
25 – 50
45 – 89
4.5 – 8.9
MED 40 40
> 50 > 89 > 8.9 + 60 25
