Plumbing Washing Machine

EddyHall

Dear MoneySavers,

This may seem like a massively stupid question, so bring on the flames.

I have bought a new washing machine and have been trying to plumb it in. The inlet pipes did not have colour coded shields on them, in fact they only have screwdriver shields. On was compression, and one was a 3/4" male screw.

I have fitted quarter turn non-return shields to both pipes and conected what I thought to be the cold inlet.

On running the machine on a trial rinse, the pipe got pretty warm. I guess, and this is the question, that this it therefore the hot inlet and should be swapped for the cold pipe?

I have friends who have had issues with this efore, and I don;t want to set it up wrong and forget about it.

Cheers,
Eddy

macman

What make/model is it? All modern washing machines are cold fill only, no hot connection is necessary.

latecomer

Not being funny but as its new surely it came with fitting instructions?

EddyHall

Thanks to both of you for your replies.

The make/model is a Bosch WAE24468GB. You are correct that it only requires a cold fill.

It has come with instructions, however the problem does not lie with the washing machine but with the pipes themselves.

I swapped the inlet feeds over, and the pipe did not heat this time, therefore I assume that I DID have the inlet on the wrong feed. With a couple of tweaks to the piping, all seems to be fine.

Thanks again for your input.
Cheers,
Eddy

C_Mababejive

I know of someone who bought a new washer and plumbed it into the central heating pipes. First wash,new washer fills with dirty water,churns it round,then stops. Door lock wouldn't open,couldn't get washing out,heating stopped working,boiler stopped working,ROTFL

Washer ended up knackered,got billed by Landlord for repairs to heating system.

Made plumber seem cheap.

keith969

C_Mababejive wrote: »

I know of someone who bought a new washer and plumbed it into the central heating pipes. .

Given that they would have had to drain the CH system to do that, which requires a modicum of understanding of plumbing, I find that rather hard to believe.

DVardysShadow

keith969 wrote: »

Given that they would have had to drain the CH system to do that, which requires a modicum of understanding of plumbing, I find that rather hard to believe.

It is still the same old routine, turn water off at the mains, drain down the pipe you want to connect to. The lack of plumbing knowledge would mean that the clues of the time it took and the state of the water would go completely unrecognised.

EliteHeat

keith969 wrote: »

Given that they would have had to drain the CH system to do that, which requires a modicum of understanding of plumbing, I find that rather hard to believe.

No need to drain down to do this, with or without a modicum of understanding.

keith969

EliteHeat wrote: »

No need to drain down to do this, with or without a modicum of understanding.

That's far too smart!

C_Mababejive

keith969 wrote: »

Given that they would have had to drain the CH system to do that, which requires a modicum of understanding of plumbing, I find that rather hard to believe.

Yes..i didnt enquire further,i just arrived at the aftermath...saw that it had nothing to do with me..had a chat and left.