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Barry54 · Mar 6, 2007, 07:45 AM

Hi,
I'm trying to install a washer in the basement of my sons house and the drain pipe is right above the washer. It use to go to the floor above for the washer drain but they now want it in the basement. Could you tell me if this is possible and what I would need to in stall the piping down the wall. The drain line is a 2" line and it is about 6' from floor.

Thank You,
Barry54

nmwirez · Mar 6, 2007, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Barry54

Hi,
I'm trying to install a washer in the basement of my sons house and the drain pipe is right above the washer. It use to go to the floor above for the washer drain but they now want it in the basement. Could you tell me if this is possible and what I would need to in stall the piping down the wall. The drain line is a 2" line and it is about 6' from floor.

Thank You,
Barry54

At what level is the main sewer drain?

Barry54 · Mar 6, 2007, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by nmwirez

At what level is the main sewer drain?

About 2' at the opposite end of the house with a downward slope all the way

nmwirez · Mar 6, 2007, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by Barry54

About 2' at the opposite end of the house with a downward slope all the way

Barry,
I need to ask better questions I guess. Is that 2' below the basement floor or is that 2' below the basement ceiling that the main drain goes outside? Nm

doug238 · Mar 6, 2007, 06:29 PM

Do you have a maytag washing machine?

Barry54 · Mar 7, 2007, 06:10 AM

Drain line is 2' up from floor or about 4' lower than were I want to hook in

Barry54 · Mar 7, 2007, 06:11 AM

No maytag it's a Kenmore

speedball1 · Mar 7, 2007, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Barry54

Drain line is 2' up from floor or about 4' lower than were I want to hook in

Barry,

What am I missing here? Why can't you simply cut in a sanitary tee into the old vertical washer drain as low to the basement floor as possible, connect a trap to it and run a standpipe up over the flood rim o9f the washer? Back to you. Tom

Barry54 · Mar 7, 2007, 07:58 AM

The drain line is horizontal across ceiling until it goes into the next room which is a stone wall but the wall is only about 10' away and then it ties in to the main sewer line.

Barry54 · Mar 7, 2007, 08:01 AM

I thought I might be able to tee off the horizontal line and drop down to floor and then up to rim line with trap. I didn't know if I should have a check valve in the line also and were best located.

speedball1 · Mar 7, 2007, 08:11 AM

Barry,

If I were faced with this, and didn't want to install a gray water pit and pump, I would punch a hole through the stone wall and run over to where I wished to install the washer. I would keep the size at 2" and cut in a upright tee just downstream from the trap and revent back through the stone wall to the vertical drain line which now "morphs" into a vent. I realize that there will be two holes you will have to punch through the stone wall but the other alterative would be to install a holding tank and a gray water pump. F I'm missing something here please bring it to my attention. Regards, Tom

speedball1 · Mar 7, 2007, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Barry54

I thought I might be able to tee off the horizontal line and drop down to floor and then up to rim line with trap. I didn't know if I should have a check valve in the line also and were best located.

Are you assuming the washer pump is powerful enough to lift the washer discharge up to the basement ceiling if you made it a closed system? I might agree if you had a Maytag washer with one of the newer more powerful pumps but since Kenmorefarms out their appliances under the Kenmore name I couldn't advise you thaqt it would work. And yes, ifyou went this route you would have to install a compression fitting on the stand pipe and a washer hose check valve on the hose where it exits the washer. Regards, Tom