What this usually is
On the BGXDW family, a machine that is putting water onto the kitchen floor usually comes down to wrong detergent. The first check that pays is this one: think back to what went into the machine. Three of the four causes below are owner-checkable in minutes; the last is where a service call starts.
The symptoms, including the ones that mean something else
- A steady seep with the machine idle — Water that arrives with nothing running is fed by mains pressure, which means a supply hose or the inlet valve.
- Foam or suds escaping around the door — Over-sudsing is nearly always the wrong detergent, and it pushes water past a seal that is otherwise perfectly good.
- A damp patch at one lower corner — A leak that is always in the same corner is a connection or a seam, and it can usually be seen directly.
- NEAR MISS: the machine will not run at all and the floor is wet — Check for a tripped breaker first, and treat the electrical fault as the urgent one.
Causes in order of likelihood here
- Wrong detergent, or too much of it — Too much powder or a rinse aid reservoir overfilled produces a milder version of the same thing, with water creeping rather than pouring.
- Door seal hardened, dirty or displaced — The door seal is a rubber strip that has to stay soft and stay in its channel, and it is the part most exposed to heat, grease and being leaned on.
- Door not closing square, or an overloaded rack holding it open — It ranks here because it explains the leak that happens on some loads and not others, which no failed part does.
- Overfilling from a float or inlet valve fault — An inlet valve that does not close fully keeps filling between cycles, which shows as water inside and on the floor with the machine idle.
- Body: This page covers the BGXDW family, and the table below lists a single model, so nothing here has to be hedged across variants: the ranking is the ranking for that build. That order is the brand-generic order for this symptom, because nothing in how this line is built moves any of these causes past another.
The diagnostic order
- Think back to what went into the machine — Any hand dishwashing liquid, at any dose, is enough. So is a rinse aid spill inside the door.
- Run a finger round the whole seal and look for gaps — It should be soft, clean, and fully seated in its channel with no section standing proud or tucked under.
- Close the door and look along the gap from the side — The gap should be even top to bottom. A wedge means either the load or the levelling.
- Body: The order follows the ranking above rather than the layout of the cabinet: each check either confirms the cause above it or removes it, and they are arranged so that the free checks come before anything that needs the unit moved or a panel off. With one configuration in the field, there is no variant that reorders these.
Before any panel comes off
Safety
Power off at the breaker or the plug, and water off at the tap, before you start. The heating element stays hot long after a cycle ends and the water in the sump can scald. Work with towels down and a shallow tray ready, because there is always more water in the machine than expected.
Models in the BGXDW family
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| BGX-DW01 | aooden:dishwasher:bgxdw |
When this becomes a service call
Call sooner rather than later for any leak you cannot see the source of, because water under a machine tracks along the floor and the wet patch is rarely above the fault. Call at once if the cabinet plinth or the flooring is already swollen or stained, since that means the leak has been running for a long time and there may be damage behind it. A leak that only happens with a particular load is the exception: that one is nearly always the door, and it is worth reloading before anything else.
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