DIY Help: Washing Machine Draining

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  Nugs on 24/10/2017 - 11:45

  +1

  ouch, drains are normally larger diameter

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  altomic on 24/10/2017 - 11:47

  +1

  put the black rubber "connection" thing in a bowl of hot water to make to more plyable/flexible.

  push the the copper pipe deeper into the grey hose so that the black rubber connection actually fits over the transparent hose. and then tighten the hose clamps.

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    slow on 24/10/2017 - 12:24

    This, or if all else fails, duct tape

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  foxmulder on 24/10/2017 - 11:49

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  Put funnel on top of pipeline and position the hose in the funnel?

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    Euphemistic on 24/10/2017 - 16:05

    maybe not the best idea, if the flow is too high for the funnel it will fill up and spill.

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  BertieBrown on 24/10/2017 - 12:35

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  Ideally, you need to make a new connection, whereby normally the outlet runs on the inside of the outlet that is inside the trough, b/c the water is running from the washer and then running on the outside of the copper pipe and the inside of the rubber compression fitting, which is I think why it's leaking because you're not able to achieve a watertight seal.

  So, either place a riser inside the copper pipe that goes to the outside diameter of the washer hose so that the water is always draining into the inside of the next pipe, or you could try getting some silicon tape, and wrapping the outside of the copper pipe a few times to effectively make a new seal on the copper and similarly on the other side of the drainage hose from the washer and then retightening the compression fitting.

  Those would be my suggestions.

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  tebbybabes on 24/10/2017 - 13:48

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  Yep, sandp is right, drains are normally of a larger diameter.

  I'm inclined to agree with @foxmulder & @jawanzar - the ideal thing to do is to be able to create a larger diameter outlet pipe that can receive your washing machine drain hose.

  May I also suggest you make it long enough so that the the end of the washing machine hose sits deep enough it to prevent overspray and splashback.

  Good luck. Will be interested in how you finally sort this one out.

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  JimB on 24/10/2017 - 14:03

  I'd say it's leaking because there's no vent so there's an airlock, plus the hose is tiny. It looks like a hose for a dishwasher not washing machine. Your washing machine pump will work extra hard.

  Try a worm drive clamp to get a watertight seal.

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  PAOK11 on 24/10/2017 - 16:15

  Not sure if you know this but those clamps need to be as tight as a nuns #%&!.. I had to DIY extend my hose to reach the taps and I kept having to re-tighten the clamps again and again because they kept leaking. I would try this first before anything else

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  BensonP on 24/10/2017 - 18:13

  Dude, that's a braided garden hose!

  Maybe try measuring the internal dimensions of the washing machine hose, and the garden hose, and try Bunnings for a barbed adaptor and a couple of new hose clamps.

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  Davo1111 on 04/11/2017 - 20:56

  This isn't an official drain, it looks like a previous owners ghetto job.

  If it was me, (and I wasn't going to make that pipe bigger - i.e. renting). I'd put a large bucket in a location higher than that, and install a barb at a low point in the bucket, with a smaller tube running into the tube. The bucket acts as a flow arrester. If you just force it straight in, i bet you'll either have an overflow, or the the vibrations will eventually make the U pipe fall off onto the floor.

  Do you have anything else in the bathroom it can go into? What about the sink?

  If I was being slightly less ghetto. I'd get a large piece of stormwater pipe, glue an end cap on it. Drill a hole in the end cap, and place in a barb that would fit in that flexible hosing (not the copper - take that out). Finally, i'd screw it into the wall

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  iand on 05/11/2017 - 23:43

  looks to me like the cooper pipe has moved up from the braided pipe try pushing this down further and using a clamp to stop it from being able to move and make sure the clamps are on really tight