Washer Drain Fun!
Oh the joys of owning a house! $18 more dollars I wouldn’t have had to spend had I lived in an apartment!
Anyway, the washer was draining too fast, and thus overflowing the drain pipe. I found a good solution at FixItNow.com, which includes draining directly into one fork of a y-pipe, and extending the other fork much higher in the air as a “surge” pipe. Tried it out; works like a charm. I made the surge pipe higher than it needed to be (by about 1 foot), but it helps as the water being drained tends to come out at fairly high pressure, and since it’s now entering at an angle it tends to splash a bit.
I also ended up needing more parts than were necessary due to the hardware store not having everything. The y-pipe is 2ʺ at both vertical ends, and the fork is 1-1/2ʺ. The hardware store didn’t have a 1-1/2ʺ to 1ʺ threaded reducer (the washer drain hose is 1ʺ), only a 1-1/2ʺ to 1-1/4ʺ threaded, so I also had to buy a 1-1/4ʺ threaded to 1ʺ threaded to screw the hose adapter in.
Poor pictures taken with my cell phone below:
