--- title: "Dishwasher error code bE" description: "LG dishwasher error code bE: Foam is not a neutral thing in a dishwasher. Every spelling LG publishes for it, which machines can raise it, and what to do…" url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-bubble/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" Appliance type: "Dishwashers" --- # Dishwasher error code bE ### What bE means on this make Foam is not a neutral thing in a dishwasher. It cushions the spray, so the water stops arriving with any force, and it can push past seals that liquid never reaches. LG detects it and stops. The causes are short and almost always in the kitchen rather than the machine: hand dish soap used by mistake, far too much detergent, or a rinse aid dispenser that has been topped up with something it should not have been. It is one of the few codes where the right answer is to run the machine again, empty, and change what goes in it. ### The other ways LG prints this one bE · BE · b E LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. ### Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. ### What to do about it - Run a rinse cycle with nothing in the machine and no detergent at all. Twice if needed. - Check nobody has put washing-up liquid in the dispenser or the tub. - Reduce the detergent dose — most people in soft-water habits use far too much here. - If it recurs with correct detergent and no soap, book it: the level sensor reads foam too. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), 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) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. What this one means What bE means on this make Foam is not a neutral thing in a dishwasher. It cushions the spray, so the water stops arriving with any force, and it can push past seals that liquid never reaches. LG detects it and stops. The causes are short and almost always in the kitchen rather than the machine: hand dish soap used by mistake, far too much detergent, or a rinse aid dispenser that has been topped up with something it should not have been. It is one of the few codes where the right answer is to run the machine again, empty, and change what goes in it. The other ways LG prints this one bE · BE · b E LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. What to do about it Run a rinse cycle with nothing in the machine and no detergent at all. Twice if needed. Check nobody has put washing-up liquid in the dispenser or the tub. Reduce the detergent dose — most people in soft-water habits use far too much here. If it recurs with correct detergent and no soap, book it: the level sensor reads foam too. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, 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) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Dishwasher error code bE](https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-bubble/)**