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countryford

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Well for the past 6 months or so, I've been working on the end of the carport, closing it off to make a room for my washers and dryers. While I am not done yet, the end is near. It originally had one wall and a ceiling. The wall was the side of the house, so it is brick. I first started with closing one end and added a door. This wall faces the back yard, so I can enter the room from there. I then added the side wall, and lastly made the front wall with another door. I can enter the room from the end of the carport or from the back yard. I then wired the room and added a breaker box. Then brought water over to the room. The two end walls with the doors were completed, so off I was insulating and then hung the sheetrock. Ceiling got done next, insulated and sheetrock got hung. Taped, mudded and painted. Now I'm down to one side wall. This is the wall where all the plumbing will be. I was only able to get 3 washer hook ups on this wall, since I am limited on space. I'm lucky to even get this much. Its about 15'X12'. Since I had the water line already over there I ended up plumbing the rest with all my washer hookups. Then ran the drain line. All I have left to do is insulate, hang sheetrock, tape, mud, paint this wall. I also have to run the main power line over to this room, but I can wait since I've already ran a pipe. Just need to fish the line through it. Then have to do some patch work to the floor and refinish it. This first pic is of the unfinished wall with all the plumbing finally done. I'm standing in the doorway to the carport.

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Here I'm standing in the doorway to the back yard. You can see on your left the breaker panel. Needs the main line coming in and then the breakers. Just to the left of it, you can see two of the water lines stick out. Eventually I'm going to install an instant hotwater heater there. I also do realize that the one dryer vent is right below the washer hookups. The dryer will be where the vent is, and the washer will be to its right. I wasn't able to move the washer hookups anymore to the right, so it got stuck there.

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The last picture for now. This is the end wall and door that goes to the back yard. I have a nice window in it as well.
I hope to have this room completed by this summer, and hopefully in the fall have a Wash-In. Stay tuned for the progress updates. :)

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Looks good!  Lots of possibilities.

 

One questions, what is the drain line running to?  I don't see any trap there, or vent so I'd guess you are not connecting to a sewer line.
 
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Looks good Justin, can't wait to see it in person. You should consider running a gas line out there before you finish, some of the best classic dryers are gas and you might even want an extra classic gas range sometime. You could also rough-in gas to the patio for a gas range or grill or hot-tub heater out there, John.
 
Very nice! I like the 'service boxes' you used for the water and drain supply. It's going to be a wonderful laundry room!!

John makes a good point about a gas line - it's a good time to do it now and you never know... I recently bought a gas dryer to match one of my washers, but I don't have gas, so it will have to be converted to electricity. Having a line in your new room might just prevent you from having to do something like this!
 
The wall on the opposite side, is the outside house wall. On the iside of that wall is a fireplace. I'm going to be converting it over to a gas fireplace at some point. On that wall I already have two electric dryers and an outlet to run them(only one at a time though). When I run the gas line on that wall for the fireplace, I will be installing an valve for a gas dryer if I ever get one. Really don't care about one to the patio for a grill since we normally grill with briquettes. Its one of those duel grills. We've had it for almost 3 years now and I don't think we've ever used the propane on it. As far as the hottub, we have one already hooked up all electric. But I may want a gas range in the laundry room as well, at some point.
 

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