(Not sure if this should be in the "Appliances" forum)
Just moved house, washing machine now sits in the garage. I never saw how the previous owners had theirs plumbed in (should have thought about that really).
Anyway I've identified hot and cold inlet valves on the wall (though there's only one inlet pipe on the machine, so I'm assuming it's just the cold one to connect to), but I can't work out what to do with the waste hose. The only logical point is a 40mm pipe (no attachment fitting/threads or anything like that) which goes horizontally through the wall and then 45 degrees down the side of the outside wall. This then drains straight into the same outside drain as the nearby rainwater downpipe.
Is this the washing machine waste pipe? (I guess the reason I'm not sure is that I'm sure I read something recently that the washing machine shouldn't drain into a rainwater drain and vice versa. That said, the building survey talks of a Combined foul and surface water system)
If so, am I permitted to ask here how best to connect the drain hose on the machine to this pipe?
ta
Just moved house, washing machine now sits in the garage. I never saw how the previous owners had theirs plumbed in (should have thought about that really).
Anyway I've identified hot and cold inlet valves on the wall (though there's only one inlet pipe on the machine, so I'm assuming it's just the cold one to connect to), but I can't work out what to do with the waste hose. The only logical point is a 40mm pipe (no attachment fitting/threads or anything like that) which goes horizontally through the wall and then 45 degrees down the side of the outside wall. This then drains straight into the same outside drain as the nearby rainwater downpipe.
Is this the washing machine waste pipe? (I guess the reason I'm not sure is that I'm sure I read something recently that the washing machine shouldn't drain into a rainwater drain and vice versa. That said, the building survey talks of a Combined foul and surface water system)
If so, am I permitted to ask here how best to connect the drain hose on the machine to this pipe?
ta