Kitchen Large Electric Appliances - GE Space Maker flooding

I have a GE SpaceMaker stacked washer/dryer combo unit. Lately the washing machine floods the laundry room. It did this when we first installed it because this is an old house and the drain pipe was inadequate. I fixed this at the time by adding on some wider and higher piping so the drain could handle the faster rate of the new pump.

The only thing different now is that we have rabbits and it is nearly impossible to get all of the hairs off of the sheets before washing them. Could it be the hair clogging the drain, causing it to overflow?

I have a GE SpaceMaker stacked washer/dryer combo unit. Lately the washing machine floods the laundry room. It did this when we first installed it because this is an old house and the drain pipe was inadequate. I fixed this at the time by adding on some wider and higher piping so the drain could handle the faster rate of the new pump.

The only thing different now is that we have rabbits and it is nearly impossible to get all of the hairs off of the sheets before washing them. Could it be the hair clogging the drain, causing it to overflow?

Have you tried to snake out your laundry standpipe? Is your drain plumbing 1 1/2 inch galvanized, or is it pvc? IF you suspect by the looks of the plumbing that it could be from sort of an arteriosclerosis clogging of the pipes by rust scale and at fittings...short of redoing the plumbing over to the main stack with new pvc, you could do something which (I'm not sure if this is code but....)they sell a coupling at home supply centers by Fernco, which is for the purpose of joining your drain pipe directly to your washer discharge pipe so that the water HAS to go down the drain. it may take the pump more time to do so, but it's maybe worth a shot. I have successfully used these. In fact, I have to put in another one that has a borderline case where the soap suds and some water are coming out of the top of the pipe.

It is conceivable that after using one of these for even a while, that in due time, the force of the water driving through the drain could end up clearing up the piping better.

If anyone here cares to give their opinion regarding these couplings, feel free to join in.

The discharge hose from the washer is currently in the drain pipe, I added about 2 feet (higher), using a coupler to make the top half 2 1/2 inch pvc, the bottom is the original 1 1/2 galvanized. It only does it every once in a while, tonight I checked it and the discharge hose had come up a bit so I stuffed it back down and ran a load and it drained fine.

I was wondering why it would only do it with certain loads.