Can I move the washing machine upstairs?

Large fun bags

Any plumbers out there that know if I can move the washing machine upstairs into en suite bathroom? Would water pressure be enough and any other problems I might run into? Thanks in advance.

Bonzo Delaney

Large fun bags wrote: »

Any plumbers out there that know if I can move the washing machine upstairs into en suite bathroom? Would water pressure be enough and any other problems I might run into? Thanks in advance.

Worked in a house last year where they done similar by putting the washing machine in to a big hot press/ laundry room upstairs
The plumber took a branch off the mains in the attic back down to the machine and also and more importantly he used a plastic lid with high sides of an attic tank as a tray For the machine to sit in to in case it ever leaked he also drilled an over flow in the tray to take any spilled water outside the building.

Alun

It's a common thing on the continent. You can get ready made fibreglass trays with a built in overflow pipe in them. Ours was mounted slightly raised on concrete blocks with a melamine surround and situated on the 3rd floor of the house.

Large fun bags

We were just going to sit it into the basin part of the stand up shower which was taken out. So if anything did leak it would just go straight down the drain.

Bonzo Delaney

Large fun bags wrote: »

We were just going to sit it into the basin part of the stand up shower which was taken out. So if anything did leak it would just go straight down the drain.

Couldn't see a problem with that once the shower tray is strong / sturdy enough to take the weight of the washing machine.

Large fun bags

Electricity is an issue tho as no sockets in bathroom. An electricians here?

MaryAntoinette

Large fun bags wrote: »

Electricity is an issue tho as no sockets in bathroom. An electricians here?

Is it technically a bathroom any more now that the shower is removed?

Cerco

Are you planning to use the shower waste pipe for the pumped outflow?

Large fun bags

Cerco wrote:

Are you planning to use the shower waste pipe for the pumped outflow?

Yes.

Large fun bags

MaryAntoinette wrote:

Is it technically a bathroom any more now that the shower is removed?

MaryAntoinette wrote:

Is it technically a bathroom any more now that the shower is removed?

Well there is still a toilet there ha. And sink

Bonzo Delaney

Large fun bags wrote: »

Yes.

I'd be inclined to use a separate waste pipe for the machine like a washing machine trap. It can be connected to the main waste pipe outside. Leave the shower waste as an overflow drain
Power could be taken from a bed room circuit but if the socket can't be easily got to eg behind the machine an isolation switch will have to be installed at an easy to reach position but all electrics should be kept at least. A meter from open water sources sinks toilet ect

MaryAntoinette

Large fun bags wrote: »

Well there is still a toilet there ha. And sink

There is a sink in my utility room and is there a regulation where one cannot put a toilet into a utility room?

K.Flyer

Fitting a Washing Machine in a Bathroom..

Easy Peasy :pac:

Quackster

MaryAntoinette wrote: »

There is a sink in my utility room and is there a regulation where one cannot put a toilet into a utility room?

You can't have a toilet in a room that leads directly into a kitchen.

MaryAntoinette

Quackster wrote: »

You can't have a toilet in a room that leads directly into a kitchen.

We are not on about kitchens, wake up.

Bonzo Delaney

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

I'd be inclined to use a separate waste pipe for the machine like a washing machine trap. It can be connected to the main waste pipe outside. Leave the shower waste as an overflow drain
Power could be taken from a bed room circuit but if the socket can't be easily got to eg behind the machine an isolation switch will have to be installed at an easy to reach position but all electrics should be kept at least. A meter from open water sources sinks toilet ect

K.Flyer wrote: »

Fitting a Washing Machine in a Bathroom..

Easy Peasy :pac:

That'd go fairly pear shaped if you were on the throne and that yoke came off the brackets on a spin cycle

Calahonda52

MaryAntoinette wrote: »

We are not on about kitchens, wake up.

off with your head!
or was that the other one:D.

Chances are utility room is off of the kitchen so fair comment

ted1

Do you have wooden floorboards? The vibrations from the machine could get very annoying