The noise will keep you awake.
Plumbing a second floor laundry room.
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.
A pull down ironing board.
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.
But first i need to mention the bathroom plumbing rough in dimensions you need to know.
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.
Near where most other house keeping chores take place.
The center of the lav s drain is located 18 approximately above the finished floor.
We will use these fittings to plumb this bathroom in just a moment.
The bathroom sink rough in dimensions are as follows.
Measure your laundry room and draw a floor plan showing the new cabinets sink and appliance locations figure a.
No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.
Need to carry hampers upstairs.
He prefers finishing the whole laundry room floor with tile and installing a floor drain.
May be able to share kitchen or powder room plumbing lines.
Center the sink plumbing on the sink base.
Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros.
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.
For convenience on the main floor anywhere off the kitchen makes sense as does a mudroom or off the garage.
On the first floor.
Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas.
No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.
We often reuse the kitchen countertop material such as granite or corian in the laundry room.
Use the plan to determine the location of the drains and supply lines.
Do carefully consider location.