Water feed on washing machine

Coz

Our current washing machine has given up the ghost.

It's currently fed with cold water. There's not hot feed.

The new machine we're looking at has a hot and cold inlet. Do we need to split the cold feed so that there's water going to each inlet on the machine or can we get away with not connecting anything to the hot inlet?

coylemj

What make is the new machine? You could do worse than download the user manual from the manufacturer's website and see if you can feed it cold only.

Without supplying the make and model, nobody here can answer the question.

Coz

It's a Bosch WAT280SGB. Yeah looking at the manual it seems like I have to feed cold water into both inlets. Balls.

Coz

Had a webchat with a guy from Hardly Normal who said there was no need to connect water to the hot inlet but I question his expertise......

colm_mcm

I would be shocked if you needed to connect both to the cold supply. I’d be 99% certain it would function as normal with just cold feed connected.

coylemj

Coz wrote: »

It's a Bosch WAT280SGB. Yeah looking at the manual it seems like I have to feed cold water into both inlets. Balls.

Is the model WAT2840SGB (note the '4')?

If it is, there is a 'Y' connector you need to buy. It's an official Bosch part, see P.32 of the manual....

Connection of hot water appliances only to cold water

If there is no hot water connection, you need a Y-piece, available from customer service with single part number: 050871.

https://media3.bosch-home.com/Documents/9000979140_G.pdf

Tell HN to throw it in for free.

colm_mcm

Consider me shocked

coylemj

colm_mcm wrote: »

Consider me shocked

I'm shocked that there is a German brand of washing machine with a hot inlet. I was under the impression that German households do not have stored hot water (no immersion tanks, they get hot water from instant gas heaters) so all of their washing machines take cold water only.

colm_mcm

I thought hot inlets went out with the dinosaurs.

Prob makes sense if people are solar heating water

coylemj

colm_mcm wrote: »

I thought hot inlets went out with the dinosaurs.

I bought my first washing machine at about the time of the dinosaurs and the sales guy in McKennas in Deansgrange told me that only units made for the UK and Irish market had H & C inlets. I think at the time, that meant brands like Candy and Hoover.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Prob makes sense if people are solar heating water

+1 Good point.

Alkers

coylemj wrote: »

I'm shocked that there is a German brand of washing machine with a hot inlet. I was under the impression that German households do not have stored hot water (no immersion tanks, they get hot water from instant gas heaters) so all of their washing machines take cold water only.

But hot water heated from an instant gas heater costs a fraction of the cost of the machine heating the water by electricity.

coylemj

Alkers wrote: »

But hot water heated from an instant gas heater costs a fraction of the cost of the machine heating the water by electricity.

That may be the case but the stop/start nature of the washing machine demand means that an instant gas heater is not a suitable source of hot water. Either you hook up a supply from a tank of hot water or you let the washing machine heat the water.