Do I need a sink in my laundry room?

[Anonymous]

I'd put in a utility sink. It's SO handy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would replace it with a utility sink and build your mud room around it. A utility sink is great to have. Rinsing muddy shoes, soaking dirty stuff, etc etc etc.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOVE my laundry sink and if I didn't have one, I'd figure out how I could get one. I soak laundry in it, fill cleaning buckets there, washed dogs, bathed my babies, clean dirty things.... it's very well used. DD has been having terrible bloody noses and so I'm often scrubbing out her dresses or sheets there.

Washers drain into sinks? I don't think that's up to code?

Yes, it’s very normal and to code.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOVE my laundry sink and if I didn't have one, I'd figure out how I could get one. I soak laundry in it, fill cleaning buckets there, washed dogs, bathed my babies, clean dirty things.... it's very well used. DD has been having terrible bloody noses and so I'm often scrubbing out her dresses or sheets there.

Washers drain into sinks? I don't think that's up to code?

Must have tiny dogs and really dirty babies!

[Anonymous]

we have one, though it is deeper/bigger than what yours sounds like. Things we use ours for: cleaning muddy shoes/boots and letting them drip dry in there, occasionally soaking things before they go in the washing machine (with oxiclean or the like), filling the dog's water bowl (also in the laundry room), washing/cleaning messy things that we don't want to wash in the kitchen sink.

I'd wait a few months and see whether you change your routines in a new house and find it useful or not.

[Anonymous]

Change to deep utility sink. So handy when you need to wash off paintbrushes, workers /handymen can clean up there, wash shoes/boots, scrub out a stain, rinse mop there, etc. I use mine at least 4-5 times a week.

[Anonymous]

My laundry room is on the 2nd floor. I haven’t used the sink in 5 years. Use the hose for outside messes (or paint or whatever) and use kitchen sink for other stuff. I’m 100% in favor of a much more useful mud room for you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOVE my laundry sink and if I didn't have one, I'd figure out how I could get one. I soak laundry in it, fill cleaning buckets there, washed dogs, bathed my babies, clean dirty things.... it's very well used. DD has been having terrible bloody noses and so I'm often scrubbing out her dresses or sheets there.

Washers drain into sinks? I don't think that's up to code?

Must have tiny dogs and really dirty babies!

10-15lb dogs. My sink is pretty big! I love bathing babies in the sink. It's the perfect size and I think it's cleaner than a kitchen sink (mine is deeper too)

[Anonymous]

I do like having a utility sink. But I'm not sure how I'd feel about it if it was in my entry way. Mine is in our laundry room in the basement.

I'd also be tempted to have more mudroom type storage and find another sink area I could use for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love my laundry sink but you do you

What do you use it for?

DP but I use it for soaking laundry (in a bucket), rinsing poopy onesies, cleaning garden things when it’s cold, a halloween dying project, rinsing plants, mop bucket, washing the dog, etc.

Same. Also, rinsing dirty shoes, washing the filter from the vacuum, rinse sand off shells from the beach, putting water on stains before I pretreat, basically anything that requires water that I don’t want to do in the kitchen sink.

I agree with the pp who suggested that you reconfigure to more of a mud room set up and put in a real utility sink.

[Anonymous]

I use mine occasionally. Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOVE my laundry sink and if I didn't have one, I'd figure out how I could get one. I soak laundry in it, fill cleaning buckets there, washed dogs, bathed my babies, clean dirty things.... it's very well used. DD has been having terrible bloody noses and so I'm often scrubbing out her dresses or sheets there.

Washers drain into sinks? I don't think that's up to code?

It’s very common to have a washer drain into a utility sink, especially in a basement.

[Anonymous]

I put a big utility sink in the garage because my laundry room was so small. The two are attached, so it made more sense to have a large sink in the garage to wash off muddy boots and throw the beach stuff in (I live at the beach full time).

[Anonymous]

If you have a front loading washer, there's no soak cycle. I used the sink to soak stained clothes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would replace it with a utility sink and build your mud room around it. A utility sink is great to have. Rinsing muddy shoes, soaking dirty stuff, etc etc etc.

This is what I did, absolutely love it. I built cabinets above and the utility sink was from home depot with a cabinet below. Handy for washing kids shoes, soaking items, washing paint brushes, anything I didnt want in my kitchen sink. It included a sprayer option which I liked too. I also optimized a lot of wall storage in there (it was a tiny space) including installing a shower rod on curtain brackets to hang clothes to dry. Hooks for kids backpacks and jackets on the walls, etc.