Pumping washing machine water from basement?

[andy_art_trigg]

What are those devices called and where can you buy them? The washing machine pumps water into a tank which then triggers a powerful pump to pump the water up to ground level from a basement?

[Penguin45]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

Saniflo?

[dpm]

Or just an ordinary submersible pump w/float switch (Lidl were doing one cheep a week or two back…) sitting in a small water tank/ barrel?…

[clivejameson]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

…or buy a proprietory macerator…designed for toilets but pumping away wash water would be a piece of….er…..cake 😉

[andy_art_trigg]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

Thanks. I’ll look into those suggestions.

[iadom]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

Many years ago I rigged up something for a local chap with a Top Loader that was below ground level.

He supplied a full size plastic drum, the size of an oil drum and a fish pond submersible pump.

I fitted the full pressure switch, hose and chamber from an old machine and adjusted the levels so that it tripped when the drum was just over half full then reset when almost empty. It had to have water covering the pump to keep it primed.

It was very much a tribute to Heath Robinson, but it worked for many years.

[andy_art_trigg]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

Nice one. I rigged up a more crude but equally effective system in my workshop to water test machines. I fitted a shelf about 6 foot above where the machines were to be water tested. I drilled a hole in a normal water tank (found in lofts) in its side as near to the bottom as possible and sealed a sump hose into it. I fitted a Hoover pump at the end of the hose. The drain hose from this pump went a further few feet higher and into half inch waste pipe which went about 20 feet right across my shop and into the waste pipe in the sink in a corner.

The pump was permanently plugged in to a socket with only the neutral connected and the live was just a long lead with a crocodile clip on the end.

When testing a washing machine I just clipped the lead onto the live of the washing machine’s pump, and each time the washer pumped out it also supplied the tanks’s pump. The water pumped into the tank, drained into the second pump and was pumped another few feet up to the waste water plumbing.

I was well chuffed with that 🙂

[Martin]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

The trade standard system most plumbers fit:-
http://www.saniflo.co.uk/San_Products.asp?name=vite

Martin

[Lawrence]

Re: Pumping washing machine water from basement?

Machine mart have got submersible pumps on offer at the mo

Lawrence

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