Some laundry tubs do hookup to Plumbing supplies, and hand wash-only clothing can be washed this way. However, laundry tubs can also be used if there is no access to running water, by using whatever source of water is available. If water is not clean, some will choose to boil it before using it to wash clothing, and this will also allow you to wash clothing in hot water if needed.
Top-load washers have an agitator in the center of the wash tub that thrashes the water and the fabric. Front-load, or tumble-type, washers lift and drop the laundry into the wash water as the tub spins
You can run your discharge pipe from the washer into a laundry tub with the drain put in. After the wash cycle, the water will discharge from the washer into the laundry tub. Keep the water in there and replace the washer discharge pipe back into the usual drain. Let the washer run it's normal cycle. Take the clothes out and put them in the dryer or on the clothes line. The next step is the tricky part. You have to get a pump of some sort to put the discharged soapy water from the laundry tub back into the washer. This water will still be okay to wash the next set of clothes. I would wash the whites first, though. lol
If your tub and toilet fill up with black water when you do your laundry, you have a blockage in your sewer pipe. Someone needs to remove the blockage.
Depending on the amount of clothes you have to wash it could take a few hours up to all day. You have to remember that you are doing this all by hand.
The tub would eventually empty
rich victorians had a tub of water to wash in but poor victorians licked themselves
Use a sponge, moistened in warm water. Don't use any detergents etc. Dry the shell afterwards with a towel.
A mainline stoppage.
Large washing machines are often called extractors, which refers to the removal of soap after washing. Originally this was a separate process. In modern washing machines, water is sprayed into the interior of the spinning laundry to wash away the soap through the porous tub.
In a bath tub.
Water seeks its own level zand the tub and basin drain into the same waste line. The back flow into the tub means the drain has a partial stoppage down stream of the basin waste and the waste flows back into the tub as the tub waste is lower then the basins waste
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