Portable Washing Machine

[combo52]

Drain Pan Drainage

Thank You for clarifying my original answer Sandy.

 

I do not see any problem with galvanized steel drain pans under washers, we use a metal fabricator to custom make them to fit the area and machines that we are installing. In fact I installed one yesterday, in order for a galvanized pan to rust through you would have to have standing water sitting in it for YEARS, using real Stainless Steel would just be a waste of precious resources as these pans are designed as a emergency measure not as a shower base, LOL.

 

[retromania]

So, combo!

My plumber would probably have all this knowledge, right? I just need to give him a call and explain yee ole situation.

 

[danemodsandy]

John:

My caveat about galvanized was based in the experience of friends back in Atlanta. They had a minor leak they ignored - after all, the pan was preventing damage, right? But the pan was sitting on a basement floor that was itself damp, and a hole developed. There wasn't a warning that the pan was holed, because the leak was small enough that the water remained under the pan; you didn't see it.

Came the inevitable day that a big leak came, and the pan allowed water to go a lot of places it didn't need to.

So, there's that. I will say that it took years, and that it took the kind of damp concrete floor you often find in the Atlanta area.