plumbing dish washer

hi - have a washing machine in kitchen with cold water, hot water and waste water connections - see attached pic.

Just wondering if these could be split easily to use for putting in a dishwasher and what exactly I'd need.

babsybaby01

There is a y shaped connection you can get that will sew onto the cold feed giving you the extra cold feed you would need...Get it in woodies or any DIY store

Are cold and waste all that's needed for a dishwasher then?

babsybaby01

glasso wrote: »

hi - have a washing machine in kitchen with cold water, hot water and waste water connections - see attached pic.

Just wondering if these could be split easily to use for putting in a dishwasher and what exactly I'd need.

Yeah dishwasher heats it's own water...

Carlow52

glasso wrote: »

Are cold and waste all that's needed for a dishwasher then?

However if u have say solar panels producing hot water some folk feed the dw with it.

Unlike a cloth washer a dish washer uses mostly hot and as long as the cycle is timer based and not temperature based then it works grand

heinbloed

Indeed, Carlow52 is correct.
As long as the hot water is NOT provided by electric resistant heating the connection of hot or warm water makes economical and ecological sense.
There is no cold fill dishwasher listed in the EU top ten. All good, economical machines are hot filled.

See for built-in machines

http://www.topten.eu/english/household/dishwasher/built-in-2.html

and for free-standing machines

http://www.topten.eu/english/household/dishwasher/freestanding-2.html

Always read the manual of the to be connected machine! Check for the max. permitted fill temperature.
It might make sense to install a thermostatic mixing valve, with this the maximum allowed feed-in temperature can be fed into the machine. So even a 'col only' machine can be tuned to an A++ machine by going to the max. allowed temperature.
Most cold-only-fill machines will take room temperature, around 20 degrees Celsius or more - read the instructions.

And whilest the thermostatic mixing valve is there connect the washing machine as well, tuning an old energy sucker to a modern A++ or A +++ energy consumption and cleaning performance rating.

Such a thermostatic mixing valve costs around €50.- in the plumbing center.

Miele has a cloth dryer from summer next year onwards for sale, running on solar thermal water circulated in the space heating system.