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title: "Dishwasher drain repair"
description: "Kenmore dishwasher drain repair: standing water after a completed cycle. On a Whirlpool-built 665 this frequently arrives with a code on the display, and…"
url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/services/dishwasher-drain-repair/"
date_modified: "2026-09-01"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Kenmore dishwasher drain repair

### About a Kenmore dishwasher that will not drain

This resolves in a sequence that runs from free to expensive: the disposer plug, the drain hose and its high loop, the filter, the sump, the check valve, then the pump. That order comes from how often each one turns out to be the answer. A garbage disposer fitted with its dishwasher plug still in place holds water in the tub every cycle, is free to correct, and is quoted as a pump more often than anything else on this list. Underneath, the machine is a Whirlpool, a Frigidaire or a Bosch, and they do not lay out a sump the same way.

On this site the job covers dishwashers wearing the Kenmore badge, across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Tell us the three digits before the period on the rating plate when you book: they name the company that actually built the appliance, and on this badge that is where the diagnosis starts.

What this involves

The disposer plug checked before anything is opened

The code read against the builder's own table

The pump last, because it is usually not the pump

Filter and sump

Cleared and looked over. Where the water goes down but takes its time, this is usually the beginning and the end of it.

The disposer plug

A knockout left in place when a new disposer went in stops the drain completely. It is a common cause and it is free to check.

The hose and the high loop

A drain hose that never rises above the door lets the sink drain back into the machine. It presents as a dishwasher problem and is a plumbing one.

The check valve and the pump

Tested rather than replaced on suspicion. On these platforms the drain pump is accessible and inexpensive, which makes guessing tempting and wrong.

Clear the code and run a cycle

A drain repair is not finished until a full cycle has ended dry.

### There is standing water in the bottom every time.

Start with the disposer plug if one was fitted recently, then the filter. Between them those account for most of the standing-water calls we take on this catalog.

### Will you replace the pump if the line is blocked?

No. A pump being asked to push through a blockage is not a broken pump. Clearing the path and proving the pump afterwards is the correct order and the cheaper one.

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