Non-Pump Washing Machine

[kjmarin]

Hi,

I have recently purchased an LG T8003TEELR top-loading washing machine. I was a bit confused as to a diagram in the manual, which suggested that for ‘Pump’ models of the machine, you should attach the drainage tube to the standpipe as usual (allowing for the tube to rise a certain height before descending into the standpipe), but for ‘Non-Pump’ models you should make sure that the drainage tube does not rise at all, and simply descends…presumably into a floor drain/laundry tub/back yard…..

Has anyone else ever heard of a ‘Non-pump’ washing machine? I should probably add that I am a UK expat currently living in Africa…perhaps this model is intended to let people’s machines empty into the rudimentary street drains. But even if this was the case, how can the machine fill up with enough water to wash clothes if the drainage pipe only descends and does not rise at all? Surely any water entering the machine will exit it straight away?

[iadom]

Re: Non-Pump Washing Machine

Not if there is a valve to prevent that. 😉

[kjmarin]

Re: Non-Pump Washing Machine

Ah…interesting. I will lead the drain hose into a ground drain then, and will see what happens. Hope the cockroaches don’t find their way up there….

[melec]

Re: Non-Pump Washing Machine

I can add that I worked on a model just like this in Spain
It was a commercial type Top Loader and as Iadom has alluded to, had a ‘trap door’ type valve that would have been energised at the appropriate intervals
My job that day was to unblock that device of foreign objects which were preventing it from opening

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