Plumbing A Second Floor Laundry Room

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Plumbing a second floor laundry room.

Use the plan to determine the location of the drains and supply lines. In many cases we are remodeling a kitchen along with creating a new laundry room. The center of the lav s drain is located 18 approximately above the finished floor. The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs.

Do carefully consider location. For convenience on the main floor anywhere off the kitchen makes sense as does a mudroom or off the garage. On a second floor try to position it so it backs onto a bathroom. Locate the plumbing box for the washing machine slightly below the top edge of the machine.

The bathroom sink rough in dimensions are as follows. Find laundry room remodel costs including the cost to move washer and dryer hookups upstairs or into a converted closet or garage. Homeadvisor s laundry room cost guide gives the average cost of adding a laundry room to an existing house or building an addition. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.

Near where most other house keeping chores take place. Find the price to add plumbing cabinets a utility sink and more. The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs. The noise will keep you awake.

A soaking sink and countertops for folding clothes. On the first floor. Need to carry hampers upstairs. Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas.

Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros. Laundry can pile up in cooking eating and foot traffic areas. May be able to share kitchen or powder room plumbing lines. He prefers finishing the whole laundry room floor with tile and installing a floor drain.

Measure your laundry room and draw a floor plan showing the new cabinets sink and appliance locations figure a. We often reuse the kitchen countertop material such as granite or corian in the laundry room. But first i need to mention the bathroom plumbing rough in dimensions you need to know.