Timeline for Can I branch a shower's water supply for laundry sink?
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| Nov 16, 2017 at 4:20 | vote | accept | Jennifer | ||
| Nov 16, 2017 at 4:18 | comment | added | Jennifer | Hi Jim. This particular laundry room actually does have a floor drain and we've gone with just plain old cement floors - purchased from 20+ year smokers - for the adjoining rooms (with a plan of radiant floor heat and a thin layer of stained concrete over that next summer), so overflow is def. not a huge worry. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 16:31 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | Another feature of laundry sinks is that they generally don't have an overflow drain. I personally think the lack of an overflow is a defect. Perhaps the idea is that a laundry sink will be in a room with a floor drain, but this is normally not the case. One can install an external overflow in a sink in which a hole can be made, but this is some trouble. If I were installing a laundry sink I would consider looking for one with an overflow. Kitchen sinks likewise don't have an overflow. What is the thinking? I have see water overflows occur with this arrangement! | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | In a laundry sink you want high flow out the faucet. Laundry faucets generally do not have flow restrictors like bathroom faucets and showers. (You don't want to wait forever to fill a bucket.) The water lines to the bathroom are generally smaller (no more than 1/2"). I teed off bathroom lavatory lines to supply a utility sink in the garage and this has worked OK, although if it was on the shower I would think twice about doing it since we have a minimally sized tankless water heater. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 14:07 | history | edited | isherwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2017 at 13:59 | answer | added | Ed Beal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 11:55 | comment | added | d.george | Since the sink and shower will both be served by the same water line and if both are being used at the same time neither will get a full water supply. | |
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| Nov 15, 2017 at 9:48 | history | asked | Jennifer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |