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When your washing machine drains there is backflow from the drain pipe that runs down the wall how can you fix this?
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∙ 10y ago
The drain is either not high enough or partly clogged. It should be about 36 inches up off floor. Adding a bit of ABS pipe is easy, or run a thin snake down and unclog it.
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