Washing Machine draining into wall pipe - 2nd floor of condo building
VM wrote:
Hello group
We live on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor condo building. The washing
machine is drained by the hose being stuck into a pipe that
diagonally sticks out of the wall about 4-6 inches above the top of
the machine. The problem is that no matter what we try, the water
backs up in that pipe and comes pouring out the top when the machine
drains. We've tried clamping sections of the hose to try and slow
the volume of water draining but we almost need to clamp it off
completely otherwise it still overflows. We've tried using lesser
and lesser amounts of detergent thinking maybe it's the suds that are
building up in the pipes and backing the water up but it makes no
difference. We've had several machines in here over the years and
the problem happens with each of them. Every couple of months we're
able to compress and tape part of the machine drain hose and get it
set just right so it drains without overflowing. However it keeps
coming back.
Anybody have any ideas that don't involve ripping down walls floors
and ceilings or paying a plumber $500 to dig through the system?
Drano?
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