If you’re attaching a plinth across the base of your cabinets, you may need to cut a groove in the top edge to allow the correct door opening. If your washing machine waste uses a standpipe type arrangement, it may potentially freeze in the winter months. If your machine’s hoses won’t reach your existing supply pipes, you’ll need to turn off your water supply at the mains tap, drain the system and cut the pipes. But the connectors are too narrow for the pipe, and the tap needs to be in a Y shape ideally, so that both pipes connect roughly horizontally. So, when fitting a new washing machine, it is a good idea to learn how to install a washing machine drain hose.

They help us to identify popular products and understand your browsing habits so we can display relevant adverts to you. Double spigot traps are available, where the vertical piece of pipework is replaced with one that allows two connections, or spigots, into it – one being your dishwasher, the other, your washing machine.

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If your appliance is built into your kitchen cabinets, then all the connection guidance above will still apply. As long as you can turn off the water, then all you need to do, is undo the chrome nut holding the existing valve on, pull off the valve, throw away the nut on the new valve, and just fit the double valve onto the existing nut on the pipe. The smooth spout and handle design is classy, sophisticated and will add that touch of class that you have been looking for. If the supply pipes run close to your machine, you can fit T-piece stop valves and screw the hoses to them.Every washing machine is different and drain hoses are available in a number of sizes online or at plumbing merchants. If your machine is supplied from the pipe that feeds your kitchen tap, the water will be at mains pressure. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Quest Chrome Bath Filler Tap provides a contemporary look matched with great build quality and reliable function.