A washing machine is a loyal assistant to any modern housewife. Without it, it is impossible to imagine a single apartment! Well, this state of affairs is quite understandable, since washing, which even a few years ago sometimes took the whole weekend, now takes women no more than a couple of minutes: you just need to load the dirty laundry into the car, and then pull it out and hang it.
But sometimes a situation arises when the drain hose for the washing machine simply does not reach the right place. This situation is especially often encountered when moving, when the configuration of the bathroom in the new place does not match that in the old apartment.
Is it possible to lengthen the drain?
Of course, in such a situation, the very first thought that the drain hose would be nice to somehow increase ... Is this permissible?
Yes, the manufacturers themselves in the applications note that, if necessary, you can increase the length of the drain. True, they strictly warn that the length of the nozzle should not exceed 100% of the length of the "native" hose. As a rule, a total of about three meters is obtained.
Some exceptions
There are situations when the drain
hose for the washing machine does not even reach the length of three meters to the toilet, sink or shower stall. We have to increase it to the limit. What “reliefs” are allowed here?
Masters say that for Zanussi brand washing machines, the pump has enough power to pump dirty water up to eight meters away without any problems. In general, most of the brands widespread on our market can easily cope with a length of up to 4.5 meters. So the drain hose of the washing machine can be connected without any fear.
Remarks
Note that to get involved in lengthening without unnecessary necessity is not worth it. If your car fails, and the master who comes on call sees an extension cord, then you will probably be denied warranty repairs.
In addition, if you drastically lengthen the drain hose for the washing machine, and when draining it makes some strange grunts and simply strained sounds, you will have to shorten the drain. However, not everything is so bad: sometimes the pump power is not enough due to the fact that the nozzle diameter is too small.
In addition, in the extension segment in no case should there be any excesses, due to which the load on the pumping pump increases sharply.
How to do it?
Having talked about some of the nuances of the process, it would be ridiculous not to talk about how all this is done. First of all, you will need an extension hose, the diameter of which must fully correspond to that for the one attached to the machine itself.
A new drain hose for the washing machine is connected to the old one using a special adapter. For reliability, it is tightened with clamps. All this can be purchased in stores for household appliances or you can pick up scraps of a water pipe of a suitable diameter, and buy clamps in the garage.
Note that the extension of the drain hose of the washing machine should not rise to a height of more than a meter, as otherwise the load on the pump may be too large.