The washing machine became one of the most widespread and necessary types of household appliances long ago. In most cases it is established in the bathroom. However at installation of the machine it is possible to face number of problems.
Spacious bathrooms in apartments of modern planning allow to carry out installation of the washing machine without effort. If the bathroom of the small area (as, for example, in so-called "five-storey apartment blocks"), placement of the washing machine can turn into problem. Therefore before buying and installing these household appliances, properly everything should be thought over and to count.
How to install the washing machine in the bathroom
If your bathroom has the big area, you without problems place in it practically any model of the household washing machine. Here already not essentially, what capacity of its drum, and the system of loading of linen – horizontal or vertical. The main thing is to follow rules stated below.
Do not install the washing machine closely to bathtub, shower cabin or the washbasin. The increased humidity badly influences its electronic "stuffing" and can lead to interruptions in operation of the equipment, or at all put it out of action. Try to arrange it near water and sewage pipes and also power supply socket. So you protect yourself from number of the additional works connected with installation of the acquired equipment. If after all you did not manage to install the machine near pipes, make so that all parts and elements were in safety. Even in the spacious bathroom the washing machine needs to be placed so that it prevented free movement as little as possible, so you will feel more comfortably. It is also not necessary to place on machine cover laundry basket, the washing accessories, etc. Electronic "stuffing" is located directly under this cover, and even the small deflection can cause failure in its work. If your bathroom quite close, anyway the washing machine is established very close from bathtub, shower cabin, or lavatory basin. Your task is to arrange it so that it allowed to move more or less freely on the bathroom and to make manipulations with loading unloading of linen. And it, first of all, depends on the sizes of the washing machine. For small bathrooms it is more preferable to buy the narrow machine with drum of small capacity. For such rooms it is the best of all to buy the top-loaded washing machine, as a rule, it takes less places, is more convenient when using. It is anyway better to choose the washing machine of the reliable, checked producer. For example, Bosh or Candy.
Attentively get acquainted with producers, technical characteristics of washing machines, read responses on the Internet.
How to connect the washing machine to communications
If with connection of the washing machine to power supply line usually there are no problems, especially in houses of modern construction (only the ground outlet is necessary), then mounting of system of gulf/draining demands time and efforts. The Zalivny hose of the washing machine has to be connected by one end to jellied branch pipe, and another – to water supply system. It is the best of all to make it as follows. Remove in bathroom some flexible eyeliner (for example through which the drain tank of toilet bowl is filled), connect to it fitting T-coupler then establish eyeliner anew. It is desirable such fitting T-coupler with the crane on the stepping aside branch pipe. Then connect jellied hose to this crane. Your washing machine will "be supplied" with tap water, and in need of its giving it will be possible to block. Draining of exhaust water can be carried out in two ways: or to fix draining hose on bathtub side that water flew down in it, or to establish the new siphon equipped with side branch for connection of draining hose under lavatory basin. Both of these ways have both "pluses", and "minuses". Choose at discretion. If length of the jellied hose attached to the washing machine appears insufficiently for connection to water supply system, get longer. However, the quality of store hoses often is poor, and signature shlag which can be bought in service centers, very expensive. Surely condense with podmotka the threaded connection of jellied hose with water supply system! In quality subhanks, it is possible to use, for example, the FUM-tape or the flax (hemp) greased with UNIPAK sealant.
In that case if all works are carried out accurately and carefully, the washing machine not only will regularly work, but also will serve good additional elements of interior of your bathroom.
If (and in some houses five-storey apartment blocks it is not rarity) your bathroom is so small on the area what to place in it even the small washing machine is very problematic, it is necessary to establish it in kitchen.