launrdy room planning
The other little plumbing I did last weekend when I added the expansion tank, was to cap off the water supply to the laundry room. The old stuff was a mess. The steel pipes were old and rusty. They ran through the brick wall and partially though the concrete slab. They had to go. Instead I'm going to run the pluming for the laundry room up through the kitchen and then into the laundry room. Oh, which brings me to the laundry room layout I haven't explained yet. So much I haven't posted about.
Well, originally the laundry room was going to be setup so that the washer and dryer were against the back wall of the house (see diagram B). I think that's how it was set up before I bought the house and would have been the easiest because the hook-ups were already there.
After I did such extensive plumbing upstairs and demolished the chase/closet in the ketchen, I decided I could run the plumbing through the old kitchen closet to the main stack instead (see diagram A). This was going to be a lot cleaner and wouldn't have to drain the washer into the utility sink (something I'm not really fond of after I've seen sinks overflow from lint clogs and such). But then running the dryer vent would be much harder from this point. I never really figured out a good way to do that.
The best answer came when I considered moving the utility sink. With all the appliances and sink along the same wall the flow of the room was much much nicer (see diagram C). And if I built out a new wall I could run the plumbing and dryer vent behind it easily. AND I could run the vent for the oven fan straight through that wall too!
At first I thought this was too hard because the utility sink drain went into concrete. But the plan now is to cap off that drain completely, and run the drain horizontally into the kitchen and down into the basement. It only took me... 13 months or so to come up with that one.