My latest adventures in home ownership: Washer hookups.
Among the myriad of upgrades I've done to my house since I purchased it in June of '05, this is the latest thats been taking up my time. I've been wanting to tackle this for a while, since my washer was, until today, in the kitchen, hooked up to my sink via a quick-connect coupling to the faucet. I needed the extra room in my small kitchen. I installed the dryer outlet and vent some time ago, as well as the drain for the washer, that I tied into the old cast iron drain lines. It seemed the easiest way to tap into the water lines was where the bathroom sink tied into the galvanized pipe. You can see where I added tees to the galvanized and ran copper from there. It was my first time sweating copper, and my first few joints were kinda messy (see elbow in top pic) but by the third or fourth joint things were going smoothly. Also in that pic you can see the years of rot caused by the leaking bathroom sink drain. It took me about a half an hour to fix that mess with that giganto-krazy straw apparatus. The next project will be to slap a new floor joist next to the rotted one. But, I digress.
The bottom pic shows the new 2x4's i used for the drain, faucets, and new outlet. (I've also rewired 99% of the house; it had the old "knob and tube" stuff. Extremely outdated, and a fire hazard. There's still some left in the attic - I'll get to that soon.)
So in the kitchen, I moved the fridge to where the washer used to be, and wa-lah!! That's about six extra square feet of floor space! Not to mention not having to run to the washer every time it drains because the kitchen sink couldn't handle the water fast enough.
Anyway, now that's done, so maybe I can dig into those hondas again soon.