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Soccer101DC (MA)
I recently moved and have our washer on the main door with the hot/cold water supply and drain in a standard box in the wall. I would like to connect two washing machines like I had in my old house (in the unfinished basement) but I cannot find the right PVC pipes to create a wye cinnection. It looks like the pipe in the wall that connects into the wall box is a standard 1.5" pipe but I do not see any pipes that connect to the inside of a pipe. I only see PVC connections that are on the outside, meaning the pipe itself goes into the 90 degree connector or something similar.
Does anyone of of a pipe that is smaller that 1.5" that I could use to slide into the 1.5" pipe? I thought a 1.25" pipe would work but that does not seem to fit inside of the 1.5" pipe, and the 1" appears to also not fit. I do not need the connection to the 1.5" pipe to be sealed, just something to slide in so the water will drain. Also it looks like 1" or 1.25" pipes doe not have all of the same connectors I would need like the wye cinncetion.
Any advise?
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srloren (CA)
Each fixture or clothes washer should have its own trap to be legal. With only one trap imagine What if you should run both washers at the same time and they pump waste water into the stand pipe at the same time, the single trap will probably not be able to take all of that water and could overflow into your room. You should cut into the drywall and replumb that verticle drain with a 2"x1 1/2"x2"x2" double San Tee with a trap on each side. Once the waste water gets beyound the trap it has an easy pathway to the main drain. Actually the minimum trap size for a residential clothes washer used to be 1 1/2" but by using 2" trap size and standpipe, there should be no worry about overflows. With older galvanized systems lent could cause the trap or joint connections to decrease in size and cause stoppages but with ABS or PVC the pipe is so smooth that that is not a problem. Remember you are dealing with almost a pressured drain from the pump in the clothes washer but the height of the stand pipe is enough make sure the direction of the waste is downward into the main drain with no opportunity for overflow.
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packy (MA)
my friend from CA, that is good advice but this person had the set-up in his old house and he seemed to get by. he must know how to make it work.
i too would not advise runnig both at the same time. BUT ??????
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Soccer101DC (MA)
Thanks for the feedback but yes I do not plan to run both at the same time although one is a high efficiency washer and the other is an old top load that fills with water. So I understand the risk but we were able to run both without issue at our old house.
Running at the same time is not really the concern but rather having both drain pipes plugged into the main drain pipe without needing to move them each time we use either washer. I was trying to avoid opening the wall but it sounds like there are no easy options for connecting pipes in the current setup.
Also the old house was in the unfinished basement so I just took a wye connection and two 45 degree connectors to make both new pipes vertical and extended them 6 inches so I could plug both into each pipe without issue.
Thanks
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steve (CA)
How about 2 aluminum gooseneck connectors? Flatten then out a little to fit side by side in the pipe. The washer drain hose would clamp onto the other end.
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Soccer101DC (MA)
Good suggestion that may work. I will look into that.
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