--- title: "Cove — add softener salt | ApplianceMaintenance.center" description: "What Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore." url: "https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/cove-add-salt/" --- # Cove — add softener salt Cove's own use-and-care guide shows this message when the built-in water softener's salt is low, and describes filling the compartment with water on first use and adding salt on refills after that. ## What Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore. actually means. Cove's own use-and-care guide shows this message when the built-in water softener's salt is low, and describes filling the compartment with water on first use and adding salt on refills after that. Cove home appliance display What to do when Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore. shows on the home appliance ### Kind of code Reminders, not failures Nothing has broken; the appliance has been counting hours, cycles or gallons and is asking for its routine care. A refrigerator lights a filter icon after about six months of water, a front-load washer suggests a tub-clean cycle after a set number of loads, a steam oven or a dishwasher asks for descaling or rinse aid, and some dryers remind you to check the exhaust. Do the task the reminder names, reset it the way the manual describes, and write the date in the service record. ### Usually leads to No service Pull the lower rack forward and, if needed, turn the lower spray arm away to reach the compartment cover. ### Shows up as Dishes Coming Out Gritty or Spotted: Filter, Spray Arms and Rinse Aid Dishes coming out gritty are plates and glasses with sandy specks, dried food, a white film or spots after a full cycle, often worse on the upper rack or in one corner. ### Make Cove Cove makes only dishwashers, so a Cove visit is all dish care: filters and spray arms cleaned, the door gasket checked and the water supply and drain inspected. ### Source Cove dishwasher use and care guide Confirmed in Cove's dishwasher use and care guide. ## Before you book, in this order. Each step comes from Cove's own guidance for Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore. on its home appliances. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit. 01 Pull the lower rack forward and, if needed, turn the lower spray arm away to reach the compartment cover. 02 Add softener salt to the compartment, then clean any excess salt from the threads before closing the cover. 03 Touch Start and close the door to allow the regeneration process to run. ### Cleared? The reminder is gone from the display, the filter, the screen or the tub has been cleaned or swapped, and the appliance runs a full cycle without calling for it again. A clean-filter light or a descale prompt that returns in days rather than months usually means the part it watches is fouling faster than normal, so mention that when you book. ### What not to do This message is not a report that the softener has failed; Cove's own guide treats it as a routine refill prompt. It only becomes a repair question if the softener stops regenerating with the compartment properly filled. ## What you may notice with it. The home appliance problems Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore. tends to arrive with. Answer these at the home appliance before anyone is booked. [All problems](https://appliancemaintenance.center/problems/) Before you call ### [Dishes Coming Out Gritty or Spotted: Filter, Spray Arms and Rinse Aid](https://appliancemaintenance.center/problems/dishes-coming-out-gritty/) [All 6 causes, cheapest first](https://appliancemaintenance.center/problems/dishes-coming-out-gritty/) It also comes with - [**White Scale on Appliance Water Parts: Steam Ovens, Ice Makers, Dish Care**](https://appliancemaintenance.center/problems/scale-on-water-parts/) - [**Appliance Maintenance Code or Reminder Light: Filter, Descale, Vent Check**](https://appliancemaintenance.center/problems/appliance-maintenance-code/) Problem ### Dishes Coming Out Gritty or Spotted: Filter, Spray Arms and Rinse Aid 6 causes, cheapest first No service indicated ## Nothing to service. Nothing has broken; the appliance has been counting hours, cycles or gallons and is asking for its routine care. A refrigerator lights a filter icon after about six months of water, a front-load washer suggests a tub-clean cycle after a set number of loads, a steam oven or a dishwasher asks for descaling or rinse aid, and some dryers remind you to check the exhaust. Do the task the reminder names, reset it the way the manual describes, and write the date in the service record. [How to read what your home appliance is telling you](https://appliancemaintenance.center/problems/appliance-maintenance-code/) ## Cove home appliances. Cove makes only dishwashers, so a Cove visit is all dish care: filters and spray arms cleaned, the door gasket checked and the water supply and drain inspected. [Cove home appliance maintenance](https://appliancemaintenance.center/brands/cove/) More Cove codes [Add rinse aid. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore.](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/cove-add-rinse-aid/) [Clean filter. Press Enter once cleaned, or press Cancel to ignore.](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/cove-clean-filter/) [Descale Unit. Check manual.](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/cove-descale-unit/) Reminders, not failures on other makes [ASKO Sterile Tub alert](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/asko-sterile-tub-alert/) [Bertazzoni Turn milk froth adjustment knob to CLEAN to start cleaning](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/bertazzoni-coffee-milk-clean/) [Café Time to Clean light](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/cafe-time-to-clean/) [Dacor Rinse Refill](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/dacor-rinse-refill/) [DCS DOOR flashing](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/dcs-outdoor-ice-door-flashing/) [Fulgor Milano PRESS CLEAN!](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/fulgor-milano-coffee-press-clean/) [GE Rinse Aid Indicator Window](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/ge-low-rinse-aid-indicator/) [LG tCL](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/lg-washer-tcl/) [All 28 codes of this kind](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/#family-mode) Cove builds this ### Dish care Upkeep for dishwashers and disposers: filters rinsed, spray arms cleared, the door seal and drain loop checked, and hard-water scale kept off the parts that heat and spray. ## In Cove's own words > When softener salt is low, “Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore.” appears on the display. [Cove dishwasher use and care guide](https://web.archive.org/web/20250805052834/https://www.subzero-wolf.com/-/media/files/united-states/product-downloads/sub-zero-wolf/use-and-care/cove/cv_dw_ucg_0524.pdf) Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Confirmed in Cove's dishwasher use and care guide. ## Cove Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore. home appliance maintenance, where we come out. The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered. 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Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore.. ### Can I clear Add salt. Press Enter once added, or press Cancel to ignore. myself? Pull the lower rack forward and, if needed, turn the lower spray arm away to reach the compartment cover. If it comes back, it needs a visit. ### Do I need to add water with every salt refill? Cove's guide notes water is only needed the first time the compartment is filled; subsequent refills are salt only. ### What happens during the regeneration process? Cove's guide describes touching Start and closing the door to begin regeneration after the salt compartment is filled and its cover closed. ### Is low salt the same problem as spotty dishes from rinse aid? No. Cove's guide separates the two: salt addresses hard-water scale through the softener, while rinse aid addresses drying and spotting; the two prompts appear independently. --- **[Read on the site: Cove — add softener salt | ApplianceMaintenance.center](https://appliancemaintenance.center/error-codes/cove-add-salt/)** **[Book a visit with ApplianceMaintenance.center](https://appliancemaintenance.center/schedule/)**