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I have just moved house.

Previously I had the washing machine waste outlet pipe slung into a
dedicated WM waste pipe.  It was kept in place by two flexible "wings"
on the end of the outlet pipe.  The plumbing in the new house has a
spigot attached to the sink waste pipe to which the WM outlet pipe is
intended to be attached by a force fit rubber fitting.  I bought  a new
outlet pipe that has such a force fitting, however, I can not replace
the existing outlet pipe from the washing machine because it uses a
factory fit that the replacment pipe will not connect to. Similarly the
current oultet pipe with wings will not fit on the spigot.

Solutions?
Date:22 Sep 2005 06:57:46 -0700   Author:  

Re: Washing machines   
In article , 
M.Gillie@ed.ac.uk says...

> I have just moved house.
> 
> Previously I had the washing machine waste outlet pipe slung into a
> dedicated WM waste pipe.  It was kept in place by two flexible "wings"
> on the end of the outlet pipe.  The plumbing in the new house has a
> spigot attached to the sink waste pipe to which the WM outlet pipe is
> intended to be attached by a force fit rubber fitting.  I bought  a new
> outlet pipe that has such a force fitting, however, I can not replace
> the existing outlet pipe from the washing machine because it uses a
> factory fit that the replacment pipe will not connect to. Similarly the
> current oultet pipe with wings will not fit on the spigot.
> 
> Solutions?
> 

Jam a bit of copper pipe in the pipes to join them, secure with jubilee 
clips  :-)
Date:Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:11:58 +0100   Author:  

Re: Washing machines   
MG wrote:

> I have just moved house.
>
> Previously I had the washing machine waste outlet pipe slung into a
> dedicated WM waste pipe.  It was kept in place by two flexible "wings"
> on the end of the outlet pipe.  The plumbing in the new house has a
> spigot attached to the sink waste pipe to which the WM outlet pipe is
> intended to be attached by a force fit rubber fitting.  I bought  a new
> outlet pipe that has such a force fitting, however, I can not replace
> the existing outlet pipe from the washing machine because it uses a
> factory fit that the replacment pipe will not connect to. Similarly the
> current oultet pipe with wings will not fit on the spigot.
>
> Solutions?


Can you not force the WM outlet pipe onto the spiggot and jubilee clip
it on, this is what I had to do for SWMBO in law....Not very elegant
but it worked! :) 

Cheers

Richard
Date:22 Sep 2005 09:00:12 -0700   Author: