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Dear Dave, I am sorry couldn’t update sooner. I have raised this issue to the plumber. He came in today and inserted/connected a white plastic pipe to the main which feeds the tank, down through the ceiling to the washing machine. All done within half an hour. I am so relieved. I didn’t realise something had been worried me for days could have been sorted so quickly. Thanks Dave (electrofix) for the advice and your time answer my questions! I have learnt a lot since then.
I have tried to upload a photo but failed. If you look at the w/m supply pipe, it is run from under the floor board – from the shower room nearby. If w/m water supply run from main that feeds the tank in the attic, the pipe should be through the ceiling down to w/m. At the moment,it is the other way round – popping from the floor up about 40cm .
The shower has always been from the tank, not from the main, but it had an old style mixer which had cold and hot taps on each end then mixed together to the shower and it had been used for over 10 years. Now it has been changed to single lever mixer still run from the water tank but I have to say it is quite weak which is problem.
When I asked the water supply of the w/machine, the plumber clearly answered me that the the washing machine, the shower, the toilet all run from the tank in the attic. I went up and checked as well, it was a pipe come out of the tank. The w/machine was newly added on last week together with the renovation of the flat. I wasn’t been warned about the potential problem.
Also, should we say as long as the washing machine finishes the programmed cycle, the filing of the water should be sufficient, and so no need to worry about?
And, yes, I alway use the container with liquid detergent throw inside the machine Whalen wash.Thanks electifix. What do you mean by “if the worst happens then the tank ball cock will be fed mains water so if its only 2 meters away it may not be a hard job”? The cold water tank is 2 meters above the w/machine. The plumber has run the pipe with the shower and toilet supply together – all from the same water tank.
Thank you, indom and Electrofix. Sorry I should have said the plumber has connected the w/m to the cold water tank which sits just 2 meters above the flat in the small attic.
The location of the washing machine I wanted him to put in is just outside the shower room while the kitchen is on the other side of the flat so much further away. Note: I cannot put the w/ m in the kitchen as that is the bed for downstairs tenant.Elactrofix, you wrote “As the machine starts filling the computer in the timer starts a clock. If it has not filled in a given time the computer assumes that the water must be leaking out and stops the machine to prevent a flood”. Do you mean the w/m filling water by setting a limited time rather than detect the level of water filled in? I have tried two loads so far, both have completed the washing cycle to the end. The first load was about 3 kg mixed material with one trouser (none cotton) came out like kind half wet but other cotton clothes seemed fine. The second load was 2 kg. All came out fine but somehow I feel they were not been soaked properly.
Is the w/m doing fine with the cold water tank?
thank you.
