Connecting a Washing Machine to a Kitchen Sink

Step 2 Sink Connection

Another piece you need from Home Depot: a sink aerator thread to hose connection adapter (piece at left on photo; aerator at right). It's sold in the rack of small plumbing fittings (along with washers, sink replacement parts, etc).

I've found that hand-tightening the adaptor is about right--overtightening with a set of ChannelLocks makes the rubber washer squeeze out of its correct shape, causing a leak.

Adaptor gets connected to the faucet. Hose gets connected to the adaptor. Knee bone connected to the shin bone.

Comments

[intrinsic2005]

You can find a "quick release" adapter too. It allows you to clip onto the kitchen sink faucet and unclip with a single motion. The one I have still has an aerator on it when I unclip, but I got it overseas. The ones I have seen here ( at ACE Hardware in the plumbing section ) don't have an aerator on the adapter parts, so if you want to have the aerator when you aren't using the washing machine, you'd have to unscrew the adapter and put the aerator back on. If you're not attached to your aerator, you can put the ACE adapter on and leave it. Then you simply clip the quick release on and off as you need to use the washing machine.

[liltonyia]

 do i hold button red button in while putting it faucet

[PCfreak]

kinda like those quick release adapters you find On Portable Dishwashers

[robhybrid]

A lot of faucets don't have usable threads. In those cases, you can just slide the hose over the faucet and just hose clamp it on.

[intrinsic2005]

Here are a couple of links to quick release adapters:

http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1366712&cp=&pg=2&sr=1&origkw=faucet+adapter&kw=faucet+adapter&parentPage=search&searchId=19590697433

http://splendide.com/154187104A_install.pdf