Washing Machine Piping Puzzle

[Spinny]

Sigh.

I used my best efforts to provide dimensioned drawings & photos of the pipe arrangements on the back of my washer, showing them to the plumber and taping them to the wall. Despite this, now I have the machine here it will not fit properly because of crossing spaghetti pipes. I have a 45mm outer diameter drain pipe, a 25mm water supply hose, and of course a rear drum projection beyond the permitted 60mm machine size by another 30mm. A ridiculous 100mm required to fit a washing machine that is supposed to fit when plumbed into 600 by 600. (I have over 80mm behind the machine proper but not 100mm.)

 

While I do the plumbers job for them because they can't do it and draw up a new pipe arrangement so they can change what they have done to something that works, one or two questions.

 

Can the water supply hose fitted to my Siemens washer with an integrated leak detection/stop leak thing fixed into the end of it - be shortened - or must the pipe be used at it's full stupidly long length ?

What are the rules for a washing machine drain upright height and for the length of a washing machine drain hose ? can they be cut down ?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

Edited 6 hours ago by Spinny

[ProDave]

I put NO pipes or sockets behind the machine.

 

ALL pipes lead into the adjacent cupboard where they terminate.  Ditto the mains plug.

 

You still need to be careful that the pipes don't crossover, but that is just the order you thread them through the holes into the cupboard.

 

Your idea would only work (if they got it right) until you change the machine for a different one.

[Nickfromwales]

2 hours ago, Spinny said:

Sigh.

I used my best efforts to provide dimensioned drawings & photos of the pipe arrangements on the back of my washer, showing them to the plumber and taping them to the wall. Despite this, now I have the machine here it will not fit properly because of crossing spaghetti pipes. I have a 45mm outer diameter drain pipe, a 25mm water supply hose, and of course a rear drum projection beyond the permitted 60mm machine size by another 30mm. A ridiculous 100mm required to fit a washing machine that is supposed to fit when plumbed into 600 by 600. (I have over 80mm behind the machine proper but not 100mm.)

 

While I do the plumbers job for them because they can't do it and draw up a new pipe arrangement so they can change what they have done to something that works, one or two questions.

 

Can the water supply hose fitted to my Siemens washer with an integrated leak detection/stop leak thing fixed into the end of it - be shortened - or must the pipe be used at it's full stupidly long length ?

What are the rules for a washing machine drain upright height and for the length of a washing machine drain hose ? can they be cut down ?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

You are instructing trades to do the opposite of what most do, ergo shit is hitting fans at a rate of knots here.

 

I haven't put a washing machine tap or mains plug behind one for over 20 years. Ditto fridge, ditto freezer, ditto oven, ditto list goes on.

 

You just ask them to migrate these supply's to the nearest adjacent cabinet and then put the hoses / cables to that location.......

 

2 hours ago, Spinny said:

Can the water supply hose fitted to my Siemens washer with an integrated leak detection/stop leak thing fixed into the end of it - be shortened

Why do you think it's so fecking long?!?