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Post# 238105 , Reply# 4   9/23/2007 at 19:07 (6,056 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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It would probably be easier to run hot and cold water lines to the washer than it would be to move it to a water supply and bolt it down again - providing there's a drain there as well (drains are a bit more difficult to locate). Although as a kid in the 50's I remember that some homes would just drain a basement washer out onto the yard in back of the home. Probably against all sorts of codes today. These are cool washers, but I prefer the box shape Art Deco-ish model, mainly because that's what we had in the early 50's. |
Post# 238137 , Reply# 5   9/23/2007 at 22:11 (6,056 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Back in the day, when there weren't quite so many darn rules about everything, washing machines were often installed strangely. It sounds like yours might have been filled from hoses that were hooked up only when the machine was needed- I've seen that before, in a former house of mine. There was an old Bendix down in the basement, and the only way the former owner could use it was to hook up long hoses from faucets across the basement. Why did they do that, you may ask? Well, a washer also has to drain, and the washer was installed near a simple drain to the outdoors, where the wash and rinse water ran down a bank to a creek. TOTALLY illegal now, of course. Installing the washer properly by today's standards would have meant trenching out part of that basement's concrete floor, plus a pump to assure flow to the sewer line- very expensive then and now. The faucets were near the front of the basement, which was underground, so no way to put in the kind of drain that was used. The rear of the house was not underground (lot sloped front to back) so it was relatively easy to put in that simple unplumbed drain there. People- and governments- were a lot less picky then than they are today. So, that may be why your washer doesn't seem to be hooked up like anything you've ever seen before. |