A customer's basement flood in Cincinnati taught me to check the drain hose first

I was on a call for a washer that wouldn't drain, and the whole laundry area was soaked. Instead of pulling the pump right away, I looked at where the drain hose went into the standpipe and found it was shoved way too far down, creating a siphon. What's the weirdest drain hose setup you've seen cause a problem?

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abbyc337h ago

Maybe not weird to you, @finley_bennett28, but a siphon flood is way more dramatic than a slow sloped pipe.

finley_bennett2813h ago

Honestly that seems like a pretty standard fix, not exactly weird. People shove those hoses way down the standpipe all the time. The real mess is when someone runs a drain line across the room with no slope and it just sits full of water. Now that's a problem.