Adding A Laundry Sink

While stylish laundry rooms are becoming increasingly popular spending a lot of money on a designer laundry room won t get you a very good roi.

Adding a laundry sink.

Do stick with the basics in order to get the best roi. Open the valves to drain the pipes into a bucket. Instructions assess your layout. Then fit the faucet base through the deck holes in the sink and tighten the jamb.

Placement of the utility sink within your laundry room is based both on where you want it and on. You need a washer dryer sink and a bit of storage. Everything else is just a luxury. Turn the water lines back on and.

With your 5 8 inch. If drywall is covering the wall behind the washer and dryer concealing the plumbing lines you will. Turn off water and disconnect clothes washer hoses from hot and cold water pipes. In this video this old house plumbing and heating contractor richard trethewey explains how to add sink valves to laundry supply lines.

Don t forget about lighting. Drill through the studs. Connect the water lines. Installing a utility sink may seem like a big job but it doesn t have to be.

General ambient light is. You may need pliers to attach these. Tighten the compression nut on the tailpiece to secure the trap 8. Attach flexible hot and cold water supply lines from the sink to your tee fittings.

Even though the faucet is in place you have to connect the new sink to the existing water. Setting the sink start by threading the faucet spout into the faucet base and tighten the spout s retaining nut. Place plumber s putty under faucet and install it to the sink deck. Here s how to do it.

Tighten nuts from below 9.