Facts About Washing Machine Repairs Drainage Problems
Posted by David Davis | Under Home & Family Friday Feb 12, 2010Most washing machines including AEG and Ariston will have their waste pipes plumbed to the sink U bend or into a plumbing out kit, that’s the small kit that screws onto a U bend or a part of the waste drain pipe and cuts its own hole into the pipe as you tighten it and the appliance outlet pipe connects onto the plumbing out kit.
One problem with connecting your washing machine to the sink U bend is that the dirty water from your sink can run back down in to your washing machine, and this can then lead to a multiple of problems ranging from a smell of dirty water eminating from your washer or your clothes being washed in dirty water and also the interlock on your washer being activated by the back flow of dirty water from the sink, if this were to happen, you would find that for no apparent your washer door would not open, even if your machine was not connected to the electric supply.
Although most plumbers will connect your washer drainage pipes to a U bend or plumbing out kit this is often not the best mehod as both methods connect to a small plastic pipe that connects to your drain and also pushes into your appliance drainage pipe, this causes both a narrowing of the pipe and a edge inside the pipe where small particles can get lodged, this can often be the place where many blockages start, one possible symtom of this is a machine that will not empty its water or stopping part way through the wash, some times with the clothes trapped inside the machine.
This type of blockage can be fixed by removing the washing machine drain pipes from the house plumbing and pointing it into a bucket and tuning your machine onto a drain cycle, this should empty the machine of water by forcing the blockage out of the pipe has the by removing the pipe from the plumbing you would of removed the bottle neck in the pipe, and you should be ready to go again.
Most makers of washing machines recommend you use the free standing pipe method to connect your washing machine waste hose, this includes all the major makers like AEG, Ariston, Hotpoint and zanussi.
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