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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 16:48:05 GMT
Well my generator fails on the warm up cycle - overloads.
I know some peple manage with filling with hot water rather than cold.
Any tips for doing this, I'd rather try with jugs etc of hot water before re-plumbing.
Have tried the other side search but the ones I've read deal more with the technical side rather than dealing with the work arounds.
Thanks.
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Post by brummieboy on Jan 12, 2024 17:16:27 GMT
leave the door open and fill to a level below the aperture. It is doubtful whether auto fill would come past this level anyway. You could even use a hose rather than jugs; that would be quicker. You could also fill from the soap dispenser.
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Post by Jim on Jan 12, 2024 17:18:27 GMT
Connect the cold Flexi pipe to the hot tap.
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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 17:20:53 GMT
Does this just need doing the once on the initial fill, or during spin cycles etc. Also if I fill through the door will the soap in the dispensor still get used. Apologies for the simple/stupid questions...
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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 17:23:57 GMT
Connect the cold Flexi pipe to the hot tap. I would try that if it didn't mean either plumbing or moving the machine - once I've worked out if the solution works I'll sort the plumbing, but not before.
Read the op you twat!
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Post by Aloysius on Jan 12, 2024 17:32:17 GMT
If it is, as I suppose, an experiment to see if it works with pre-heated water, then does it matter, for test purposes, about the soap? In any case you could use one of those soap bubble things you put into the drum instead.
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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 17:35:17 GMT
If it is, as I suppose, an experiment to see if it works with pre-heated water, then does it matter, for test purposes, about the soap? In any case you could use one of those soap bubble things you put into the drum instead. Excellent thinking.
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Post by Jim on Jan 12, 2024 17:58:00 GMT
Connect the cold Flexi pipe to the hot tap. I would try that if it didn't mean either plumbing or moving the machine - once I've worked out if the solution works I'll sort the plumbing, but not before.
Read the op you twat!
yebut nobut yebut...the Flexi hoses are a hand tightened fitting, it's hardly "plumbing"! Washing machines pull out and push in easy enough. 10 or 15 minutes of a job, bet you've spent longer typing and reading this thread. Useless twat.😉
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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 18:04:05 GMT
I would try that if it didn't mean either plumbing or moving the machine - once I've worked out if the solution works I'll sort the plumbing, but not before.
Read the op you twat!
yebut nobut yebut...the Flexi hoses are a hand tightened fitting, it's hardly "plumbing"! Washing machines pull out and push in easy enough. 10 or 15 minutes of a job, bet you've spent longer typing and reading this thread. Useless twat.😉 Where the feck am I suposed to screw the flexi hose into the hot water? This is a boat!
Even moving the machine out of it's cupboard involves taking the door off.
Double twat! back at ya
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Post by Jim on Jan 12, 2024 18:15:04 GMT
yebut nobut yebut...the Flexi hoses are a hand tightened fitting, it's hardly "plumbing"! Washing machines pull out and push in easy enough. 10 or 15 minutes of a job, bet you've spent longer typing and reading this thread. Useless twat.😉 Where the feck am I suposed to screw the flexi hose into the hot water? This is a boat!
Even moving the machine out of it's cupboard involves taking the door off.
Double twat! back at ya
is it a built in cupboard one then? Posh twat! Serves you right. Where does it get it's water from now, aren't there 2 Flexi feed pipes into your cold and hot water? With those little taps at the end of the solid pipework? Washing machines normally have Flexi feed pipes to the solid copper/plastic system. Is it only cold water feed? Where will you get the hot water from? If you do have H n C pipework and need to T in, they do a washer feed fitting that can be fitted to a "live" pipe, no soldering, cutting etc. Otherwise hot water down the soap 'ole. Cold feed then just does the rinse.
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Post by Aloysius on Jan 12, 2024 18:17:10 GMT
Jim is channeling Ross.
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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 18:24:11 GMT
Nothing posh about it other than the fit out means it is hidden and to remove it you have to remove the door and it's surround - so built in but only after installed! What a pain...
Dream on with the pipework looking anything near a normal house, there is a hot water pipe nearby that I could t off, not easy to do due to space though.
I'll experiment first with some of the suggestions, which have been a help...
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Post by on Jan 12, 2024 18:36:45 GMT
I just connected the cold fill to the hot water supply and ran cold washes so the heater element doesn't come on. It does use up the hot water so there would be an argument for valving it so that you could use hot or cold and turn the hot orf after the initial fill so the rinses are cold.
Depends what your hot water arrangements are.
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Post by Jim on Jan 12, 2024 18:38:02 GMT
Nothing posh about it other than the fit out means it is hidden and to remove it you have to remove the door and it's surround - so built in but only after installed! What a pain...
Dream on with the pipework looking anything near a normal house, there is a hot water pipe nearby that I could t off, not easy to do due to space though.
I'll experiment first with some of the suggestions, which have been a help...
the self cutting fittings need very little room, a clamp fits around the pipe, the tap portion screws into clamp and cuts it's own hole in the pipe, with no or minimal leakage. Needs hardly any room to do it. There's also a Y connector for the hoses if it's any use, might help with andrew's idea.
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Post by fi on Jan 12, 2024 18:48:55 GMT
I just connected the cold fill to the hot water supply and ran cold washes so the heater element doesn't come on. It does use up the hot water so there would be an argument for valving it so that you could use hot or cold and turn the hot orf after the initial fill so the rinses are cold. Depends what your hot water arrangements are. Thanks for this, reminds me that whatever solution I don't want to be useing up hot water for rinses.
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