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[quote=Anonymous]Our washing machine is located in an unfinished "room" in the basement, the rest of which is carpeted and finished.  The house was built in 1946. The washing machine is newish, but the way it is connected to the water supply, etc. is original. When the machine rinses the clothes of water/soap, the water moves from the machine into an adjacent sink via a visible plastic tube, and a lint trap is attached to this tube which we need to replace every couple months or so.  (This whole system is foreign to me - I grew up in a 1980's house where all of this occurred behind the walls so I never saw this nor did we ever have to replace any tube, lint trap, etc.)  Here is the problem: often the lint trap is full before we realize it (it starts to look all grey quickly, but lasts several weeks after that, so it is hard to tell when it truly is full), and then the water sprays all over the floor and leaks into the carpeted area of the basement.  This has probably happened once every 6 months for the 10 years we've lived in this house.  I am sick of it! My question is this: who should I call to look into putting all of this tubing, etc. beind a wall so that I do not have this flooding ever again?! A plumber? A handyman? Also, has anyone done this and could give me a rough idea of what this will cost me? (The basement is nothing special, very bare bones, so it would be a waste to spend a ton of money down there.) TIA![/quote]

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