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"Outdoor" Utility

  • 16-06-2017 10:47am
    #1
    pawdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭


    A bit of advice needed here please folks. We have a shed out the back (a 1970s out-house I suppose you'd call it) and it currently houses our washing machine and dryer. There's also a wc and a Belfast sink in there. It's a tiny block built, flat roofed structure and it's in bad shape. Worst of all it's located less than a metre from our back window so not only is it ugly but it's in our face. When we need to do laundry we have to go outside (very often in the rain) and into this tiny sh**ty shed and it's just the pits.

    The long term plan is to do an extension with a new dining area, utility etc but funds don't allow that at the moment. As a temporary measure I'm thinking of knocking the shed and building a kind of car-port type structure onto the back of the house. Something like 9" x 2" joists, timber posts set in galvanised shoes, corrugated perspex sheeting, a bit of flashing, gutter and downpipe etc.

    Sorry for the long intro but my question is this: provided the area is dry and not vulnerable to wind driven rain would it be possible to just have our washing machine and dryer under this semi-open structure? If not I was thinking I could further enclose it in some way. I'm thinking it couldn't be any worse than the current arrangement and I could also do a little deck under it where I could sit out and have a BBQ and a few beers while watching the rain and listening to the spin cycle. Anyone have any thoughts?

    What a long-winded question. Sorry!

    p.s. I'd do all the work myself apart from the electrics and a the little bit of plumbing.


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