[dangold]

Hi,

We've just moved into a house that previously had a washing machine right next to the kitchen sink. They decided to move that to the garage, though, and capped off the washing machine hookups. I am wondering if I can do the following:

- Take off the cap from the cold water line, and add a spigot (essentially putting back one of the hookups)
- Hook a portable dishwasher up to that spigot and have it drain into the same drainage pipe that the washing machine was previously using.

Does this seem feasible and do you think I'd need any other parts than a spigot for the hookup?

Thanks for any help,

Dan.

[KingJasper05]

That should be enough. Will you choose hot or cold? I'd test the drain first. You never can tell why it was taken out.

I'd hate to see you do all of that work then when you test your final install find that there's a massive blockage in the drain.

Good luck with that.

Reading your question further...

There are portable dishwashers that hook right to the kitchen faucet. It also drains into the sink. Check that out and for your dishwasher and you may be pleased at how easy it would be. The portables roll away for storage and roll out to a convenient location for usage.

[dangold]

Reading your question further...

There are portable dishwashers that hook right to the kitchen faucet. It also drains into the sink. Check that out and for your dishwasher and you may be pleased at how easy it would be. The portables roll away for storage and roll out to a convenient location for usage.

Yeah, that's the way we're supposed to use it. However, we wanted to avoid having to attach and deattach it each time we wanted to use it. If it's possible to have a permanent hookup then we won't have to deal with that.

I think that connecting to the spigot from the washer hookup should be basically the same thing as connecting to the kitchen faucet. And then the big difference would be draining into the washer's drainage pipe instead of the kitchen sink.

[KingJasper05]

Got it. You've got a good head on your shoulders. One other thing to consider then is that a dishwasher would normally drain out into the plumbing under the sink. Consider the difference in height that the water must be 'pushed' you don't want the water to pool in the bottom of the dishwasher if there's not enough motor power to pump out where the washing machine drain is at.

[letmetellu]

Does this dishwasher have to fit into the 24 inch opening that the old one came out of? If it does you have to take the outer cover off ot the portable one.

One other thing, make sure that you have a good connection where you connect tot the water line, I am pretty sure you will have to change the ind of the portable drain hose.

[ballengerb1]

You do know that a dishwasher never has a cold supply line hook up, right? You need to remove the existing tailpiece coming down from the sink going into the trap and replace it with one with a dishwasher drain coonection. Also you drain line must make a large upward loop and then go down to that new drain, that or install a dishwasher air gap on the counter if you are trying to make this somewhat permanent.

[massplumber2008]

Dangold...

Most likely you will need to cut the two hoses and then install an adapter with clamps to the water hose so that you can connect to a boiler drain on the HOT WATER PIPE (as Ballenger pointed out... ;) ).

You will need a Hose insert fitting x female hose adapter (to attach to MALE thread on the boler drain) and a couple SS hose clamps. You may need a fitting or two between these to get to the hose sizes you need.

The drain pipe should just be placed into the washing machine drain pipe a couple feet.. be sure to duct tape the pipe as it goes into the pipe so it doesn't pull out... just in case. The height of the washer standpipe should be enough to create the LOOP that Balleneger was talking about.

I can't be 100% sure here... but I think this all should work for you.

Good luck...

MARK