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When you get your washing machine plumed in, most appliance engineers will plumb the waste outlet pipe to a kitchen sink U bend or on to a plumbig out kit, a plumbing out kit connects on to a U bend or other parts of the kitchen waste pipes and allows a washing machine to be connected in places that might otherwise be difficult to connect the washing machine waste pipe

2 common problems reported to us, is, 1. A bad smell coming from the washing machine that the customer can not get rid of, and 2. the machine becoming full of smelly water when it has not been used. Both of these problems can often be traced back to to the washing machine being plumbed in to a sink U bend, has this method can often lead to backfow of dirty water from the kitchen sink and the smell of the drains coming back up through the washer drain pipes and into the washing machine, the water from the sink could also lead to other problems like activating the appliance interlock and in more severe cases, flooding.

Although most plumbers will connect your washer drainage pipes to a U bend or plumbing out kit this is often not the best mehod as both methods connect to a small plastic pipe that connects to your drain and also pushes into your appliance drainage pipe, this causes both a narrowing of the pipe and a edge inside the pipe where small particles can get lodged, this can often be the place where many blockages start, one possible symtom of this is a machine that will not empty its water or stopping part way through the wash, some times with the clothes trapped inside the machine.

To clear this problem simply take the washer drain pipe off the U bend/plumbing out kit connector and hold the pipe into a bucket and put your washer on to a drain/short spin cycle, the washer should empty its water and door should open after its predetermined delay time, then you can clear the blockage in the pipes and reconnect the appliance to the connector

Some times the only way to plumb in the plumbing out pipe is to use the methods mentioned above but most of the large makers of washing machines like Hotpoint, Hoover, Whirlpool and most of the others recommend you plumb in you washer using a free standing pipe about 3 or 4 feet high with the washing machine waste pipe pushed in the top and a air gap to release trapped air.

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