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1-Hour Wash cycle
    Qualifying Question
    • What could you do with extra time back in your day?
    Demo
    • Show customers the 1-Hour Wash cycle on the control panel of the dishwasher. Talk about how dishes can be done quickly with this cycle.
    Data Point Insight
    • The average dishwasher uses 6 gallons of water per cycle; the average Energy Star-rated dishwasher uses 4 gallons per cycle. While the average faucet flows at 2 gallons per minute(1)
    Short Description
    • Clean dishes quicker with the 1-Hour Wash cycle.
    Long Description
    • Cleans dishes in half the time(1) so your plates, pans and glasses are thoroughly cleaned up and taken care of in just an hour. Customers are now able to better plan out cleanup time.
    Reason To Believe
    • 1-hour clean
Sensor cycle
    Qualifying Question
    • How often are you washing mixed loads of dishes?
    Demo
    • Point out the Sensor cycle on the control panel and explain how the sensors determine the right settings for washing and drying every load.
    Data Point Insight
    • The Sensor cycle uses two sensors to check the soils in the water up to three times during the wash cycle.(1)
    Short Description
    • Automatically get the right wash and dry settings for each load with a cycle that adjusts time, energy and water levels.
    Long Description
    • Automatically get the right wash and dry settings. By adjusting the water temperature and time based on how dirty the dishes are as well as how many plates are in the load, the Sensor cycle makes it easy for customers. Two separate sensors are used. The soil level sensor may sense up to 3 times during the prewash and main wash portion of the cycle. The temperature sensor will sense once to determine dish mass. The Sensor cycle delivers great cleaning by automatically adjusting time, energy and water levels for each load.
    Reason To Believe
    • Freedom from guesswork
Adjustable 2nd Rack
    Qualifying Question
    • What items do you wash that is too tall to fit in the upper rack?
    Demo
    • Point out the adjusting levers for customers and ask them demonstrate how to easily move the upper rack up or down.
    Short Description
    • Make room for taller items like water bottles with easy-to-find adjusters that smoothly raise or lower the 2nd rack
    Long Description
    • Make room for taller items like water bottles with easy-to-find adjusters that smoothly raise or lower the 2nd rack
    Reason To Believe
    • Flexibility to Fit Different Size Dishes

Other

Cycle memory
    Short Description
    • For quick cleanup of routine messes, this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked and automatically chooses it for you the next time.
    Qualifying Question
    • How often do you run the same cycle on your dishwasher?
    Demo
    • Point out the controls on the dishwasher and explain that this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked.
    Reason To Believe
    • For quick cleanup of routine messes, this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked and automatically chooses it for you the next time.
    Long Description
    • For quick cleanup of routine messes, this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked and automatically chooses it for you the next time.
    Data Point Insight
    • Save time by having the dishwasher automatically apply the settings from the previous wash cycle.
ENERGY STAR® Certified
    High Temperature Wash Option
      Short Description
      • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
      Reason To Believe
      • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
      Long Description
      • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
    Heavy Cycle
      Short Description
      • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
      Reason To Believe
      • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
      Long Description
      • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
    Cycle Memory
      Qualifying Question
      • When do you wash multiple different types of laundry garments?
      Short Description
      • Customize each cycle the way you want with Cycle Memory.
      Long Description
      • Customize each cycle the way you want with Cycle Memory, which stores your last setting choices and then applies those options the next time you use that cycle.
      Reason To Believe
      • Customize cycles you need
    ENERGY STAR® certified
      Qualifying Question
      • How much do you think you could save on energy bills with an upgraded refrigerator?
      Demo
      • Show customers a 60-watt incandescent light bulb. Assure them that this refrigerator model will use less energy over a year than the light bulb. What a savings!
      Data Point Insight
      • Refrigerators over 10 years old could cost about $110 per year to run,(1) making ENERGY STAR® certified models more cost-efficient.
      Short Description
      • Help save money on utility bills with ENERGY STAR® certified models that exceed government standards.
      Long Description
      • Experience maximum savings on utility costs with ENERGY STAR® certified refrigerators that reflect industry improvements in insulation and compressor technology to use less energy without sacrificing features.
      Reason To Believe
      • Cost savings
    In-door silverware basket
      Qualifying Question
      • What kind of items take up lots of space in your lower rack?
      Demo
      • Move the silverware basket to its multiple locations, emphasizing the uniqueness of its in-the-door design. Show customers the silverware baskets of the competitive set, which take up space in the lower rack.
      Data Point Insight
      • Get 100% usable space in the lower rack with the silverware basket that's located in the door.
      Short Description
      • Make room for more dishes in the lower rack by easily fitting the silverware basket in the door or on the front of the rack.
      Long Description
      • Get 100% usable space in the lower rack with the silverware basket that's located in the door. Customers get more space to load their dishes and bowls in the lower rack. Targeted spray jets in both the middle and lower spray arms help clean items in the silverware basket. Customers can easily load and unload their silverware basket without pulling out the lower rack. A latch fully opens the basket so that customers may grab the handles of the silverware to make putting them away simple.
      Reason To Believe
      • Movable in-door silverware basket
    Sensor Cycle
      Short Description
      • Automatically selects the right wash and dry settings for your load by using two separate sensors to measure temperature, soil level and load size once during the prewash and once during the wash cycle.
    1-Hour Wash Cycle
      Short Description
      • Clean dishes in half the time so your plates, pans and glasses are thoroughly cleaned up and taken care of in just an hour.
    Soil sensor
      Short Description
      • Determines how dirty dishes are and adjusts the Normal cycle as needed to make sure dishes come out clean.
    Soil Sensor
      Short Description
      • Determines how dirty dishes are and adjusts the Normal cycle as needed to make sure dishes come out clean.
    In-Door Silverware Basket
      Short Description
      • Frees up rack space by easily fitting on the front of the lower rack or in the door to make room for more dishes.
    Sani Rinse option
      Short Description
      • Sanitizes dishes by eliminating 99.999% of food soil bacteria.
    Sani Rinse Option
      Short Description
      • Whirlpool® Dishwashers with the Sani Rinse Option are certified by UL to eliminate 99.999% of food soil bacteria and reach a final rinse temperature greater than 150°F to sanitize dishes.
    Normal cycle
      Short Description
      • Use for normal amounts of food soil to clean up leftover messes from your day-to-day meals.
    Normal Cycle
      Short Description
      • Use for normal amounts of food soil to clean up leftover messes from your day-to-day meals.
    Heavy cycle
      Short Description
      • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
    High Temperature Wash option
      Short Description
      • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
    Heated Dry option
      Short Description
      • Use a clean, dry dish straight from the dishwasher thanks to added heat for drying. For optimal drying results, use this option with rinse aid.
    Heated Dry Option
      Short Description
      • Use a clean, dry dish straight from the dishwasher thanks to added heat for drying. For optimal drying results, use this option with rinse aid.
    Industry's Best Selling Dishwasher Brand
      Short Description
    Designed, Engineered and Assembled in the U.S.A. with American Pride
      Short Description
    An American Company for Over 100 Years
      Short Description
      • Whirlpool Corporation started in 1911 as a small company in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Today we are a global home appliance business selling products around the world. We are proud of our American heritage and ingenuity that have driven innovation for over 100 years.

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    WDF540PAD

    ENERGY STAR® certified dishwasher with Sensor cycle

    Dimensions: h: 34.5" w: 23.875" d: 24.5"

    Colors:
    Black
    Stainless Steel
    Biscuit-on-Biscuit
    White

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    Top 3

    1-Hour Wash cycle
      Qualifying Question
      • What could you do with extra time back in your day?
      Demo
      • Show customers the 1-Hour Wash cycle on the control panel of the dishwasher. Talk about how dishes can be done quickly with this cycle.
      Data Point Insight
      • The average dishwasher uses 6 gallons of water per cycle; the average Energy Star-rated dishwasher uses 4 gallons per cycle. While the average faucet flows at 2 gallons per minute(1)
      Short Description
      • Clean dishes quicker with the 1-Hour Wash cycle.
      Long Description
      • Cleans dishes in half the time(1) so your plates, pans and glasses are thoroughly cleaned up and taken care of in just an hour. Customers are now able to better plan out cleanup time.
      Reason To Believe
      • 1-hour clean
    Sensor cycle
      Qualifying Question
      • How often are you washing mixed loads of dishes?
      Demo
      • Point out the Sensor cycle on the control panel and explain how the sensors determine the right settings for washing and drying every load.
      Data Point Insight
      • The Sensor cycle uses two sensors to check the soils in the water up to three times during the wash cycle.(1)
      Short Description
      • Automatically get the right wash and dry settings for each load with a cycle that adjusts time, energy and water levels.
      Long Description
      • Automatically get the right wash and dry settings. By adjusting the water temperature and time based on how dirty the dishes are as well as how many plates are in the load, the Sensor cycle makes it easy for customers. Two separate sensors are used. The soil level sensor may sense up to 3 times during the prewash and main wash portion of the cycle. The temperature sensor will sense once to determine dish mass. The Sensor cycle delivers great cleaning by automatically adjusting time, energy and water levels for each load.
      Reason To Believe
      • Freedom from guesswork
    Adjustable 2nd Rack
      Qualifying Question
      • What items do you wash that is too tall to fit in the upper rack?
      Demo
      • Point out the adjusting levers for customers and ask them demonstrate how to easily move the upper rack up or down.
      Short Description
      • Make room for taller items like water bottles with easy-to-find adjusters that smoothly raise or lower the 2nd rack
      Long Description
      • Make room for taller items like water bottles with easy-to-find adjusters that smoothly raise or lower the 2nd rack
      Reason To Believe
      • Flexibility to Fit Different Size Dishes

    Other

    Cycle memory
      Short Description
      • For quick cleanup of routine messes, this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked and automatically chooses it for you the next time.
      Qualifying Question
      • How often do you run the same cycle on your dishwasher?
      Demo
      • Point out the controls on the dishwasher and explain that this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked.
      Reason To Believe
      • For quick cleanup of routine messes, this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked and automatically chooses it for you the next time.
      Long Description
      • For quick cleanup of routine messes, this dishwasher remembers the last cycle you picked and automatically chooses it for you the next time.
      Data Point Insight
      • Save time by having the dishwasher automatically apply the settings from the previous wash cycle.
    ENERGY STAR® Certified
      High Temperature Wash Option
        Short Description
        • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
        Reason To Believe
        • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
        Long Description
        • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
      Heavy Cycle
        Short Description
        • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
        Reason To Believe
        • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
        Long Description
        • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
      Cycle Memory
        Qualifying Question
        • When do you wash multiple different types of laundry garments?
        Short Description
        • Customize each cycle the way you want with Cycle Memory.
        Long Description
        • Customize each cycle the way you want with Cycle Memory, which stores your last setting choices and then applies those options the next time you use that cycle.
        Reason To Believe
        • Customize cycles you need
      ENERGY STAR® certified
        Qualifying Question
        • How much do you think you could save on energy bills with an upgraded refrigerator?
        Demo
        • Show customers a 60-watt incandescent light bulb. Assure them that this refrigerator model will use less energy over a year than the light bulb. What a savings!
        Data Point Insight
        • Refrigerators over 10 years old could cost about $110 per year to run,(1) making ENERGY STAR® certified models more cost-efficient.
        Short Description
        • Help save money on utility bills with ENERGY STAR® certified models that exceed government standards.
        Long Description
        • Experience maximum savings on utility costs with ENERGY STAR® certified refrigerators that reflect industry improvements in insulation and compressor technology to use less energy without sacrificing features.
        Reason To Believe
        • Cost savings
      In-door silverware basket
        Qualifying Question
        • What kind of items take up lots of space in your lower rack?
        Demo
        • Move the silverware basket to its multiple locations, emphasizing the uniqueness of its in-the-door design. Show customers the silverware baskets of the competitive set, which take up space in the lower rack.
        Data Point Insight
        • Get 100% usable space in the lower rack with the silverware basket that's located in the door.
        Short Description
        • Make room for more dishes in the lower rack by easily fitting the silverware basket in the door or on the front of the rack.
        Long Description
        • Get 100% usable space in the lower rack with the silverware basket that's located in the door. Customers get more space to load their dishes and bowls in the lower rack. Targeted spray jets in both the middle and lower spray arms help clean items in the silverware basket. Customers can easily load and unload their silverware basket without pulling out the lower rack. A latch fully opens the basket so that customers may grab the handles of the silverware to make putting them away simple.
        Reason To Believe
        • Movable in-door silverware basket
      Sensor Cycle
        Short Description
        • Automatically selects the right wash and dry settings for your load by using two separate sensors to measure temperature, soil level and load size once during the prewash and once during the wash cycle.
      1-Hour Wash Cycle
        Short Description
        • Clean dishes in half the time so your plates, pans and glasses are thoroughly cleaned up and taken care of in just an hour.
      Soil sensor
        Short Description
        • Determines how dirty dishes are and adjusts the Normal cycle as needed to make sure dishes come out clean.
      Soil Sensor
        Short Description
        • Determines how dirty dishes are and adjusts the Normal cycle as needed to make sure dishes come out clean.
      In-Door Silverware Basket
        Short Description
        • Frees up rack space by easily fitting on the front of the lower rack or in the door to make room for more dishes.
      Sani Rinse option
        Short Description
        • Sanitizes dishes by eliminating 99.999% of food soil bacteria.
      Sani Rinse Option
        Short Description
        • Whirlpool® Dishwashers with the Sani Rinse Option are certified by UL to eliminate 99.999% of food soil bacteria and reach a final rinse temperature greater than 150°F to sanitize dishes.
      Normal cycle
        Short Description
        • Use for normal amounts of food soil to clean up leftover messes from your day-to-day meals.
      Normal Cycle
        Short Description
        • Use for normal amounts of food soil to clean up leftover messes from your day-to-day meals.
      Heavy cycle
        Short Description
        • Takes care of heavily soiled messes and other hard-to-clean dishes without the extra elbow grease by adding extra time to the cycle.
      High Temperature Wash option
        Short Description
        • Get thorough cleaning with the High Temperature Wash option.
      Heated Dry option
        Short Description
        • Use a clean, dry dish straight from the dishwasher thanks to added heat for drying. For optimal drying results, use this option with rinse aid.
      Heated Dry Option
        Short Description
        • Use a clean, dry dish straight from the dishwasher thanks to added heat for drying. For optimal drying results, use this option with rinse aid.
      Industry's Best Selling Dishwasher Brand
        Short Description
      Designed, Engineered and Assembled in the U.S.A. with American Pride
        Short Description
      An American Company for Over 100 Years
        Short Description
        • Whirlpool Corporation started in 1911 as a small company in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Today we are a global home appliance business selling products around the world. We are proud of our American heritage and ingenuity that have driven innovation for over 100 years.

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      Top Features

      • 1-Hour Wash cycle

        Cleans dishes in half the time(1) so your plates, pans and glasses are thoroughly cleaned up and taken care of in just an hour. Customers are now able to better plan out cleanup time.

      • Sensor cycle

        Automatically get the right wash and dry settings. By adjusting the water temperature and time based on how dirty the dishes are as well as how many plates are in the load, the Sensor cycle makes it easy for customers. Two separate sensors are used. The soil level sensor may sense up to 3 times during the prewash and main wash portion of the cycle. The temperature sensor will sense once to determine dish mass. The Sensor cycle delivers great cleaning by automatically adjusting time, energy and water levels for each load.

      • Adjustable 2nd Rack

        Make room for taller items like water bottles with easy-to-find adjusters that smoothly raise or lower the 2nd rack