Second Floor Laundry Room Plumbing

Homeadvisor s laundry room cost guide gives the average cost of adding a laundry room to an existing house or building an addition.

Second floor laundry room plumbing.

On the first floor. We ll show you four diy steps to prevent a water catastrophe such as adding a washing machine pan. Second floor laundry rooms can create a lot of damage if the wash machine leaks. In many cases we are remodeling a kitchen along with creating a new laundry room.

He prefers finishing the whole laundry room floor with tile and installing a floor drain. Need to carry hampers upstairs. 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. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.

Laundry can pile up in cooking eating and foot traffic areas. May be able to share kitchen or powder room plumbing lines. Near where most other house keeping chores take place. On a second floor try to position it so it backs onto a bathroom.

A pull down ironing board. 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. Find laundry room remodel costs including the cost to move washer and dryer hookups upstairs or into a converted closet or garage. For convenience on the main floor anywhere off the kitchen makes sense as does a mudroom or off the garage.

Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas. The noise will keep you awake. Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros. You can easily access.

A soaking sink and countertops for folding clothes. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs. You won t have to spend a lot of time or money and you ll safeguard against an upstairs flood.