Acceptable length of washing machine waste hose
- Thread starter diyreg
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Distance should be ok, but be aware, the hose must be lifted at the back of the machine to prevent it siphoning itself out. From there needs a continous fall to drain, you cant run it under the floor and then lift it up again to meet the waste. It'll block if nothing else.
Run a 'proper' 40mm, or maybe even 50mm waste pipe under the floor with the correct fall, and either out through the wall into an external waste gulley (not rainwater gulley), or tee into the soil stack.
Dropping below floor level, then bringing it back up again will just cause a whole hatful of headaches. The pipe will remain full of foul water, be slow to drain (if it works at all), and may even syphon waste from the kitchen sink back into the machine.
Dropping below floor level, then bringing it back up again will just cause a whole hatful of headaches. The pipe will remain full of foul water, be slow to drain (if it works at all), and may even syphon waste from the kitchen sink back into the machine.
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