AEG 6000 drain tube not long enough

Thanks @foxhole So I should swap the dishwasher and washing machine drain hoses around then on the spigot? To better create your diagram? So the washing machine drain tube on the top sink spigot?

If so will doing this simply shift the problem to the dishwasher? So that the sink drain water will enter the dishwasher because the spigot it's connected to is sloping downwards Or do dishwashers by design not allow that anyway?
 
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gizmo1990 said:
Thanks @foxhole So I should swap the dishwasher and washing machine drain hoses around then on the spigot? To better create your diagram? So the washing machine drain tube on the top sink spigot?

If so will doing this simply shift the problem to the dishwasher? So that the sink drain water will enter the dishwasher because the spigot it's connected to is sloping downwards Or do dishwashers by design not allow that anyway?
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No same spigot is fine , it simply has to come from above the spigot .
 
For the sale of a fiver just extend the hose up then back down into the waste.
 
I've hoisted the hose up and along as suggested and fingers crossed it seems to have fixed it! Thanks so much everyone. Should the dishwasher drain hose be arranged in a similar fashion? At the moment it's simply coming out the bottom of the dishwasher along the ground and up into the top sink spigot.

@denso13 I'd already bought and fixed an extension. As it turns out, having it fixed the way it is currently it would just about reach! Oh well.
 
gizmo1990 said:
@Harry Bloomfield Thanks for the reply. Here's a photo of the appliances setup. Allowing for perspective I feel the top of the curve of the drain hose coming from the washing machine is slightly above where the end of it is inserted into the spigot?
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As per Foxhole, the pipe needs to take the red route. At the moment, your hose is somewhat lower than the undersink trap, so the sink is initially draining towards the washer.
 
Thanks for the info @Harry Bloomfield I didn't see it earlier, no new post email prompt from the forum. :( I will hoist the dishwasher pipe up as you say.

I thought I'd update as we've since experienced the drain water coming through again! Only once, but it's enough to make me wary something is still not right. We're also experiencing oddities with the machine's spin/drain function working only intermittently. In case this is also related to the drain, I thought I should investigate more.

I've attached the page from the manual which describes the proper setup of the machine according to AEG. The other image is how I've got the hoses setup currently.

Some questions,
1) Could my current hose setup still be at fault? Given the heights and hose contortions? Note that my sink drain spigot is slightly below AEG's recommended minimum height.

2) Because the washing machine's sink spigot will naturally draw sink drain water down into it, because of it flowing downwards would it be better to swap it with the spigot the dishwasher is currently occupying?

3) Regarding the drain possibly causing an issue with the machine's spin/drain only function. Since both functions are tied together, could the machine be experiencing issues pumping out water? Or at least not enough to tell the machine, 'ok, you can now spin'. The symptom is that the machine just keeps gurlging away draining, then the spin starts but doesn't get up to speed, then cuts out and the process is repeated several times before stopping?

If anyone could advise on this I'd really appreciate it!
 

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Can you take a photo of your connections below the sink now?

In your second diagram you need to come up from the connection, not down.
 
Still going down, you need to turn the connection to horizontal so both the WM and DW hoses rise immediately up, to the underside of the worktop preferably, then they can drop again.
 
@denso13 Won't that mean that there's very little difference/change with the washing machine's (red in my diagram) hose? As in the flow of the sink drain water will still be drawn down the hoses very easily? And the washing machine hose already raises up immediately.
 
Try this, it has to go up from the waste connection. I wouldn't have ran it so high along horizontally, but there you go.

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Thanks for that @denso13 I only hoisted up the hose because of the advice so far. It's interesting to note that in AEGs manual I posted, they have the hose running along the ground and then up. I'll look into doing what you say but it will necessitate me creating a hole through the kitchen top side wall.

There does seem to be quite some contradiction with installing washing machines which I'm very surprised at. I thought this would be quite straight forward with a set of basic principles to follow. :(

Looking at all the advice so far it seems that the sink drain Y connector itself is the issue. The fact that one of the spigots is pointing down and hence giving free flow access to waste water seems a bad idea. Then adding further contortions to the hoses could be causing the washing machine pump issues in clearing water out?

What I feel I need is a sink drain connectir where both spigots point up? Like this photo I found. Does anyone know what they are called? Adding in @foxhole and @Harry Bloomfield in case they know?

Thanks for all the help everyone!
 

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It's interesting to note that in AEGs manual I posted, they have the hose running along the ground and then up.
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Quite, and why I advised what I did.

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