Yippee! Our laundry room is finally up and running. It was the "last" (yeah right!) big project we had left to do on the house-- well not counting the yard-- and it is now finished! It took Jon most of Christmas break to get it done, but it is fantastic. He got kind of carried away with it though. We initially needed a five gallon bucket with a sump pump in it to pump the water from the washers into the sewer line, but with the true spirit of a water engineer Jon had something much bigger in mind. He dug a big sump pit 5 feet deep (he got WAY carried away with the digging) and bought a fancy pump that can pump 100 gallons of water 30 feet into the air (not that we needed it to do that) and rigged up the fanciest plumbing I've ever seen. His hope is that in the future we will be able to drain all the water from our bathtub and sinks into the pit, treat it and then use it to water the lawn. Here is what the room looked like before ( it use to be an old root cellar)
and what it looks like now!
It is really nice to have laundry capacities in our house now, even though we VERY much appreciate everyone who let us do our laundry at their house for the past 7 months. I especially LOVE having two washers and dryers. We had a set before we bought the house and then the house came with a set. I was going to give one set away, but Jon's unlce mentioned that we could keep them both and have our own little laundry mat. I think that was the best idea ever. Laundry gets done SO much faster! Also, we rigged up a laundry shoot from our bedroom to the basement. When we tore the floor out in our room we found there was already a hole in the floor and decided that instead of patching it up we would utilize it. I am super exicited, even though I am a little terrified that my kids are going to jump down it. I think I saw a Resuce 911 one time where a little girl got stuck in the laundry shoot and I have been traumazited ever since. But ours isn't very long so I don't think I have to worry about anyone getting stuck, and I guess I'll just have to reconcil myself to the fact that it will get played with. Here is a picture of Jon's sump pit before he poured concrete in. I have to admit I was skeptical about it, but it works amazing. I am slowly learning to trust my husband's ideas, they always seem to work out better than I could ever imagine.
2 comments:
Wow! An amazing project!
You are right to worry about your laundry chute. My grandmother had one in her house. But hers was long and dark. So we were didn't try sliding down it, but we certainly put everything else down it we could find. I seem to vaguely remember something about a cat going down it. We all plead innocent of course.
Your laundry room looks great. To me having my own washer and dryer was a sign of luxury.
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