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Lint filter for washing machine drain
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:50:37 -0400, Shaun wrote:
Harry Avant wrote: I would like to add a lint filter to the drain on my washing machine. I've found a few but all state they are for use with drains running into a laundry sink and NOT standpipe drains. My washing machine drain hooks onto the top of a three foot high plastic pipe since there is no sink in the area. Questions: why can't I use a mesh sock type screen in this situation and is there anything designed specifically for this type application? Curious-- why filter waste water? I don't konw about the OP but I do it mostly so that the check valve in the sink drain doesn't clog open. If lint sticks on the valve flap, when the drain backs up after the stream floods, the valve won't be able to stop it. Despite my care, I think just a year after I put in the check valve, the drain did back up and the check valve didn't stop it. By this time I had already started jambing a stick in between a rubber stopper and a shelf above it that was screwed to the wall, whenever I don't use the washer, but I took out the stick for a second and the water rushed in. Then I plugged it back up again. I wish I could answer the OP's question but I can't. Someone says the sock woudln't drain fast enough. Maybe that's true, since in a sink the sock can drain from the end and the full lenghth of the sides. |
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