Posted by Hill on December 30, 1997 at 05:30:43:
In Reply to: wash room hookups posted by jamie on December 29, 1997 at 21:22:31:
No - there is no special valve - the water has to go someplace. Either the drain pipes are undersized, wrong fittings were used or the pipe is partially blocked - maybe a combo of all three. I find this all the time in older houses with new appliances that have a pump on them.
Often 1 1/2" galvanized water (not drain) pipes (with hard 90s) were used for drains and they just won't handle the sudden volumn of water.
Hill
: we just moved to an old house and are in the process of remodeling it...one
: of the things i am trying to fix is the washbasin in the washroom. there is the
: stand that the washing machine drain goes into, and about 1 foot off the floor
: is a tee for the washbasin to hook into. the problem is that when the washing machine
: drains all its water, most of that water backs into the washbasin. is there some
: kind of special valve that i should install to prevent this from happening?? any help
: would be sorely appreciated...thanks, have a great day, jamie