Washing Machine Waste All aspects of plumbing questions and answers, help, tips and information

[martynfogg]

Hello,

I'd like to move my washing machine into my outhouse, but there is no waste plumbed in there.

Is it okay just to run a waste pipe from the washing machine, thorough the wall and out over an open drain (also used for guttering water)?

Many thanks,


Martyn Fogg

[stevenc1603]

No, washing machine waste water must go to the fowl sewer, not surface water sewer.

[marrtin]

You could fit the waste as you suggest as long as you use a washing machine trap inside, and the water does go to a foul sewer (Stevenc1603 has assumed because of the gutter that it doesn't - you will have to check).