Join Two Washers Into One Drain

We have had our maytag washer and dryer hooked up for many years in our basement without any problems.

Join two washers into one drain.

It is unlikely but i don t want to go into the garage one morning and find a big puddle. One automatic clothes washer per standpipe. The soil stack currently has a toilet small sink and 1 1 5 inch drain from the washing machine separately connected. For the water hookup i believe i should be able to split the existing faucets and.

Had a new home we did about 4 years ago where there was a single drain sink with a dishwasher on each side. We recently got a kenmore washer from friends who upgraded. The plumber hooked one up to the disposal and one to the branch tail piece. So you can probably wye into the 3 horizontal drain line as long as you aren t exceeding the dfus for that pipe but don t connect to the existing standpipe.

Both washers are about 5 years old. Would extending the 1 1 2 inch drain to an additional washing machine cope if both washing machines did actually drain at the same time. The thing is that there s only one waste pipe and that s already used by the washing machine. The dishwasher which is drained to the disposal never has problems but the other sometimes gets water coming back into it.

I have always wanted to have a second washer hooked up to make washing that much faster. If you don t have a 3 horizontal line newish code you ll want to upsized that as well. I just ran long pipes along the wall with hookups for each washer 4 machines hooked up at a time 3 that stay in place 4th position for rotation machine drain is handled the same way with pvc pipe the 4 outlets are on one 15a circuit but 2 of the stay machines have electronic driven motors and pull far less current than the old skool washers with motors run straight off the line and i have.