FAILSAFE

SO,  IF YOU ARE MARRIED, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DO WHATEVER YOUR WIFE WANTS DESPITE HOW IRRATIONAL AND IMPOSSIBLE IT MAY BE...

In this case,  it's a laundry room on the second floor by the bedroom...in an old house, with plaster walls, and not designed for plumbing. Here's the laundry closet being framed in the upstairs hallway...last year.  Now,  we have to install FAILSAFES...and there are three:

1.  A Shut off valve for the water behind and above the washing machine...every home should have one.

   2. A drain underneath the washing machine in the floor...to the outside...just in case. There's a lot of debate about this but we decided to be conservative!

3.  After doing 1. and 2.,  don't put the Picasso in the dining room underneath the laundry. (OK, we don't have a Picasso...but we do have several Hardgroves' which is another story).

 Chiseling out the drain hole....

 Oooops....stud under the first hole!

 I stick a sheetrock knife under the bottom of the inside dryer vent hole

 Outside,  I draw around the traced sheetrock hole, and cut carefully with the Sawzall...

 Then measure fourteen inches under the dryer vent for the drain hole and cut a two inch hole!  The pipe fits!

 Here's the drain fitted in...but not glued yet, until the membrane is installed.

 Meanwhile,  the vinyl floor has been installed in the study...

 And the finished Dryer Vent and Drain on the outside wall...doesn't look too intrusive...

and IT's Spring...and transplanted daffodils look happy at the old house!

SPRING ALWAYS COMES AGAIN...REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR NEXT WINTER!