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10th March 2008, 04:32 PM
I did and burned out the pump motor. Half the cost of a new machine to have it replaced.
Tight connection; hose looped on the exterior of the house to defeat siphoning. One and a half summers and the pump was done for.
Sorry if this has been posted before. I did a quick search of two months of posts and didn't find anything.
Seems most washer pump motors can't handle the load.
The repair guy says he looks at all the 1" grey water diverter pipes at Bunnies and thinks each of these is worth a pump.
He had two solutions.
One, use a funnel in the laundry to feed a grey water pipe so siphoning isn't an issue.
Two, use a 2" pipe diverter.
There wasn't enough room under my laundry trough to fit a 2" DWV diverter tap (switch? petcock? dunno the terms). And not enough room to fit one under the floor with some kind of extended arm to move it from above.
So I've now fitted a 2" standing pipe in the laundry. I didn't trust a funnel to cope with the washer output.
We've got a programmable washer and have been doing the wash and spray rinse cycle through the 1" diverter into the inspection cover on the external DWV pipe; then the deep rinse with the pipe removed to fill a wheelbarrow.
Now do the same switching the washer outlet hose to a 2" pipe fitted beside the laundry trough then running under the floor and out a vent to fill a 100 l water wheelie bin from the deep rinse cycle.
Fingers crossed.
The gum in the front yard is stressed and dropping leaves like mad. The good thing about the bin is that it has a tap so we can park it to slow feed in various places around the yard.
Tight connection; hose looped on the exterior of the house to defeat siphoning. One and a half summers and the pump was done for.
Sorry if this has been posted before. I did a quick search of two months of posts and didn't find anything.
Seems most washer pump motors can't handle the load.
The repair guy says he looks at all the 1" grey water diverter pipes at Bunnies and thinks each of these is worth a pump.
He had two solutions.
One, use a funnel in the laundry to feed a grey water pipe so siphoning isn't an issue.
Two, use a 2" pipe diverter.
There wasn't enough room under my laundry trough to fit a 2" DWV diverter tap (switch? petcock? dunno the terms). And not enough room to fit one under the floor with some kind of extended arm to move it from above.
So I've now fitted a 2" standing pipe in the laundry. I didn't trust a funnel to cope with the washer output.
We've got a programmable washer and have been doing the wash and spray rinse cycle through the 1" diverter into the inspection cover on the external DWV pipe; then the deep rinse with the pipe removed to fill a wheelbarrow.
Now do the same switching the washer outlet hose to a 2" pipe fitted beside the laundry trough then running under the floor and out a vent to fill a 100 l water wheelie bin from the deep rinse cycle.
Fingers crossed.
The gum in the front yard is stressed and dropping leaves like mad. The good thing about the bin is that it has a tap so we can park it to slow feed in various places around the yard.