Thread Number: 4878
Does a WE16 really fill faster than a FriGEMore? |
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Post# 107866 , Reply# 1   2/4/2006 at 22:13 (6,626 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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I beleive the water intake hose threads are a standard 3/4 inch hose-cock thread for both home and laundromat use. IIRC the hoses in laundormat are have a greater I.D. (Internal Diameter) and therefore carry more water, quicker. Also in a typical one-family home, the main pipes are typically 3/4" and the branches to each room are 1/2" Therefore ALL three fixture in a bathroom feed from ONE 1/2" set of water-feed pipes. The washer supply, then and the neighboring slop sink would also use 1/2" pipe. I am surmising in theory this is to prevent any one water use from hogging all the pressure, and the shower from changing temps due to other uses. In a laudromat the wwater feeds are cerainly greater than either 1/2" or 3/4 inch. So in summary I agree, commerical washers fill with water MUCH faster. |