Looking for a plumbing part...
 

Around me are three places that do plumbing fixtures, but only Focus do this
part, and they have been consistently out of stock for the past few weeks,
despite me turning up on the delivery date to get it, only to be told their
computer shows one in stock, but they can't find it. The piece in question
is a Y fitting so the 3/4" waste water outlet hoses from two appliances can
be attached to one single 3/4" waste outlet hose which is connected to the
tee on my sink trap and from there to the drain. Currently only have washing
machine connected, but have dishwasher and would like to have it connected
before Christmas! Can this part be bought online?

Also another point. It would seem that the location where I am planning to
put the dishwasher only has a plumbing fixture for hot water. Do dishwashers
need a cold water fixture?

Marcus

"Marcus Fox" wrote in
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Around me are three places that do plumbing fixtures, but only Focus do
this
part, and they have been consistently out of stock for the past few weeks,
despite me turning up on the delivery date to get it, only to be told
their
computer shows one in stock, but they can't find it. The piece in question
is a Y fitting so the 3/4" waste water outlet hoses from two appliances
can
be attached to one single 3/4" waste outlet hose which is connected to the
tee on my sink trap and from there to the drain. Currently only have
washing
machine connected, but have dishwasher and would like to have it connected
before Christmas! Can this part be bought online?

Also another point. It would seem that the location where I am planning to
put the dishwasher only has a plumbing fixture for hot water. Do
dishwashers
need a cold water fixture?

Marcus


http://www.flexiblehose.co.uk/pushinfittings.htm should be what you're
after.

Marcus Fox wrote:

Also another point. It would seem that the location where I am planning to
put the dishwasher only has a plumbing fixture for hot water. Do dishwashers
need a cold water fixture?

You need cold for the dishwasher, they nearly always require cold fill
only.

Are you sure about the hot only, most washing machines take either hot
and cold or cold only.

--
Chris Green

Also another point. It would seem that the location where I am planning to
put the dishwasher only has a plumbing fixture for hot water. Do
dishwashers
need a cold water fixture?

Most (European) dishwashers will accept a single hot feed. However, it will
usually make it more expensive to run and result in less perfect cleaning
results, although it will complete a cycle more quickly. A US dishwasher
requires a hot supply and will not work with a cold supply.

Christian.

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:30:14 GMT, Marcus Fox wrote:

Around me are three places that do plumbing fixtures, but only Focus do this
part, and they have been consistently out of stock for the past few weeks,
despite me turning up on the delivery date to get it, only to be told their
computer shows one in stock, but they can't find it. The piece in question
is a Y fitting so the 3/4" waste water outlet hoses from two appliances can
be attached to one single 3/4" waste outlet hose which is connected to the
tee on my sink trap and from there to the drain. Currently only have washing
machine connected, but have dishwasher and would like to have it connected
before Christmas! Can this part be bought online?

B.E.S. part no 11262.

Also another point. It would seem that the location where I am planning to
put the dishwasher only has a plumbing fixture for hot water. Do dishwashers
need a cold water fixture?

Dish washers should ideally be plumbed with a cold water feed if yours has
a rinse & hold programme. The thinking is that a hot feed on a rinse & hold
prog tends to bake the debris onto the plate.


--
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net

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Also another point. It would seem that the location where I am planning
to
put the dishwasher only has a plumbing fixture for hot water. Do
dishwashers
need a cold water fixture?

Marcus

My dishwashers and ones that I have installed for others have been cold
fill only

Tony

Out of interest I've just bought a new washing machine (Siemens) Seems
like most manufacturers are now making washing machine cold fill only,
as the washing performance is better. The ones we looked at, were
Bosch, Miele, AEG and Siemens and all were cold fill only. It's a bit
annoying as the wash takes longer and obviously costs more as you are
using electricity to heat the water rather than gas. As all these makes
are German, perhaps it's a conspiracy!

In article .com,
wrote:
... It's a bit
annoying as the wash takes longer and obviously costs more as you are
using electricity to heat the water rather than gas. As all these makes
are German, perhaps it's a conspiracy!


Not convinced it is more expensive - a modern dish washer uses so little
water that they are full before the hot water ever gets to them. You end
up using gas to heat the pipework up a bit and then electric to heat up
the cold water that was standing in the pipework.

Darren

The message .com
from contains these words:

Out of interest I've just bought a new washing machine (Siemens) Seems
like most manufacturers are now making washing machine cold fill only,
as the washing performance is better. The ones we looked at, were
Bosch, Miele, AEG and Siemens and all were cold fill only. It's a bit
annoying as the wash takes longer and obviously costs more as you are
using electricity to heat the water rather than gas. As all these makes
are German, perhaps it's a conspiracy!

One of the reasons I bought a Hotpoint was that it also had a hot fill.
Then I resubscribed to this ng and found Hotpoint was anything but the
flavour of the month. :-(

--
Roger