Installing the washing machine: detailed instructions for those who want to do everything with their own hands

We tell how to choose the right place to install the techniques, prepare communication and mount the washing machine.

How to install a washing machine yourself, and is it possible to do without the help of plumbing? Theoretically, there is nothing complicated in the installation - you only need to choose a flat pad, connect the water, make a socket and properly organize drain. In practice, it is necessary to deal with difficulties, for example, with the lack of even base. Without it, the center of gravity shifts, and the body begins to jump. Improper location often becomes damaged. It is important that the equipment is located as close as possible to the tap pipes and the plum - with too much distance the water will delay inside. When installed, a flexible liner is used or rigid fittings. The second option is more reliable, but how to be if there are not enough space for communications? We will analyze all the questions in this article.

With independent installation, the manufacturer's warranty is usually burning. Check the conditions in the warranty coupon.

All about self-installing washing machine

Accommodation options

Preparation before installation

Installation instructions

• Preparation of equipment
• Connection HVO and GVO
• Digger device
• Check

Rules and accommodation options

The main requirement is the close location of the plumbing. A flat platform can be equipped anywhere, but too long communications will complicate the operation of the pump. Water will be stated on saving sites. There will be an unpleasant odor.

You can pull the pipes only in non-residential premises. Location of eyeliner in the bedroom, children's, living room or office is prohibited. In case of leakage, insurance companies will refuse to reimburse the damage, since the emergency situation arose due to the owner's fault. Problems may arise when changing the status of a private house. It will be difficult to register as an IZH object in case of inconsistency with the requirements of sanitary and technical standards.

There are four basic accommodation options.

Bathroom and bathroom

In small bathrooms, the housing can be installed under the sink. There are special models with side siphon, freeing the place at the bottom. If the space allows, equip a separate zone with a linen basket and a dryer. The location in the bathroom is most convenient. The riser is close, and from the noise of a spinless drum protects the door.

It should be noted that the wet environment gradually destroys the engine parts, accelerating their wear and causing corrosion. It is better to choose a model designed under high humidity. Some of them are available complete with sink.

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Kitchen

Typically, the housing is mounted under the tabletop. Before you independently install a washing machine, you need to choose the right place. The closer to the washing, the shorter communication. Near the plate and oven temperature is too high. With overheating, the engine will fail. The rear side of the refrigerator heats up not as much as the kitchen board, but it will complicate the engine operation. Any equipment is better to keep away. The rotating drum creates vibrations that can lead to a breakdown of household appliances. Another reason why the distance is trying to make large - electromagnetic tips. Special built-in models mounted in a kitchen set, which are not visible behind the cabinet door.

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Parishion

For installation it is important to choose a place near the water supply. They are located near the entrance to the apartment. One of the successful options is a wall cabinet. In typical apartments from pipes, it is separated by a thin partition in which it is easy to do a hole for wiring. The corridor is not the most good place, especially in city houses. Noise from the engine and drum will be distributed throughout the rooms. In the old panel buildings, the hallways are very narrow, and they do not always manage to find a place.

Non-residential premises equipped with laundry

As a rule, it is a basement or utility room in a country cottage or an apartment. Stores are equipped with panel five-story buildings, but these rooms are usually located in extreme rooms and other zones remote from the bathroom. The best option is a separate laundry combined with a wardrobe. It will fit the dryer drum, ironing board, wardrobe for detergents and basket for dirty linen. To mount the equipment, it will be necessary to align the floor, adjust the stands, connect water and fasten the drain hose by connecting it to the sewage. Laundry should be heated. Without electricity and water supply, it will not be able to work. Sockets must have a Uzo.

How to prepare communications before installation

Start follows from learning instructions. It contains information about the requirements for the connection of DHW and the HALP, the drain device, power supply from the sockets. From it, you can find out, in what limits are the stands are adjustable, and make a solution - whether to make an additional leveling platform. You need to know which faults can be eliminated on your own, and which you can not. The instructions should be studied to prevent errors when operating capable of damageing. One of the important sections is the conditions and terms of warranty service. In most cases, after an independent connection, the warranty card is not valid.

Sewage riser

The easiest way to plum is a hose, hanging with a special hook on the sink, bath or toilet. He is inconvenient by the fact that the hook can fall. Using the sink during annealing and the descent is inconvenient. The toilet at work will be blocked.

Under the sink, you can put a siphon with a splitter. The lack of such a method is that with low bandwidth, the flow can pour into the bowl or temporarily block it. With good communications, this does not occur.

The most reliable method is the cutting into the sewage riser or the overall removal - the pipe where all the sinks and a bath are connected. Its use will not create any inconvenience.

Hot and cold water

Before installing a washing machine at home, you should close the cranes on the DHW and HALL risers. Hot stream is rarely used. As a rule, only cold is connected. To the desired temperature, the tanes are heated - metal elements inside the housing through which the current passes.

The hot stream allows you to save on electricity, but its quality does not always meet the required standards. Before you get into the crane, it is processed and the composition is different from a cold large amount of dissolved substances. If they do not get rid of them, they will gradually accumulate on the interior walls, deriving equipment. The problem will help solve mortise filters. With a high content of lime and iron, they are mounted on the voltage liner.

Before starting work in the pipe, an additional output is embedded, to which the valve is connected. It should have a locking crane - internally pressure gradually weakens the inlet valve inside. Threaded compounds seal palauls, sealant or fum-ribbon, turning them around the thread. There are tees and splitters with a mounted valve.

Connecting electricity

The device must operate from a separate outlet with a protective shutdown device (UZO). It connects with a shield with a copper three-core cable with a cross section of 2.5 mm2.

When using a socket without grounding, the owner loses the right to warranty service, since this is a violation of the rules prescribed in the instructions. The tension of the wire and nutrition through the extension can not be allowed. Its length is small, so the device is placed near the connection site.

The current legislation prohibits laying the channels for wiring in reinforced concrete plates and seams between them. Any actions that can lead to weakening the carrying structures are prohibited. Deep channels can cause harm walls, so it is allowed to lay them only in the decoration layer. Wires must have an insulating layer. They are stretched in the corrugation so that they cannot be contacted with the floor and walls.

Rules for placement socket

• Distance to pipes and appliances with water should be at least 0.6 m.
• Height above the level of finishing floor finish - at least 1 m.
• Distance to plumbing - not less than 2.4 m.

How to install a washing machine

Preparation of corps

First, the package on the instructions or technical passport is checked. The trim is checked for defects - dents and scratches.

On the rear wall, we unscrew the transport bolts. They fix the tank so that when transporting it is not loosened. In the resulting holes insert plastic plugs included with the kit along with other details.

The height of the legs is adjusted using a construction level. If their lengths are missing in order to give the upper wall a horizontal position, it is necessary to align the base. The position of the legs is fixed with locknuts.

The design should not be fused.

When placed in a niche, the distance to its walls should not be less than 1 cm. Rear need to leave a place under the eyeliner.

Any change in the design can lead to breakage. After the intervention, the owner loses the right to warranty service. As a rule, details are assembled. It is not designed to upgrade with parts from other equipment. Preventive engine inspection and reuse of the washing machine cuff will not be needed.

Connecting to GVS and Hyd

Even if the connection to the DHW is provided, it is better not to use it. Hot water contains many harmful impurities. Cold to the desired temperature will heat the built-in tagne.

Connecting hoses are included. They are joined with a housing with a lock nut. At the place of the joint on the end of the hose is a filter.

The reinforcement is stretched from the toilet bowl, the mixer or eyeliner leading to the apartment from the riser. The last option is the most reliable and convenient. When it is used during washing, the temperature and intensity of the flow in the crane do not change. Part of the pipe is removed. In its free ends make threads. Hemp or fum-tape is wound on it so that the joke does not flow. Then screw the tee. The reinforcement is fixed with hemp and fum-ribbon.

Digger device

When using a siphon with a tee joint should have an elastic rubber seal. Use the sealant is optional. The connection is quite reliable. From above it is tightened with a metal clamp. Better make an output to the discharge pipe connected to a sewer rim. It comes in the kitchen sink, as well as baths and sinks located in the bathroom. The discrete is made. In it through the rubber sealing the S-shaped drain hose. It should not be immersed too deep so that it does not contact with the drain. The joke is wicked by a sealant.

The hose should not be twisted and bended under an acute angle. At an altitude of 0.5-0.6 m from the floor level, a smooth turn is made from below. It is necessary for the formationature of a hydraulic vehicle protecting the drum from the penetration of smells from the sewage. To fix the bending, the clamp from PVC is put on it. If the hose is removed from the top of the rear wall, you do not need to form bending. The hydraulic was already inside. There are models with reverse graduation valve. They are also connected directly without an external hydraulic circuit.

Check

After connecting communications and alignment, make a test launch with a washing powder. The drum is not loaded. During the test, they will be checked how correctly the equipment works. It should be paid to the quality of the compounds - the leaks should not be. It is important to verify the flux heating rate and tank filling time. The case must stand motionless. If he jumps, it is necessary to align the base or adjust the legs. With the malfunction of the drum, contact the wizard. Most likely, it was damaged during transportation, or this is a marriage. Too long plums occurs due to improper connection or internal faults.

In the final, we offer watch a video where the installation of the washing machine is shown with your own hands.