Would you keep or get rid of a slop sink in a laundry room? (drains, painting)
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I added a slop sink in my last house when we moved the washer to the carport. Loved it.
But it wound up getting used for gardening stuff, with dirt and rocks accumulating in the drain screen, so we added a second sink ten feet away in the yard. That one wasn't plumbed, just used the hose; it drained into a patch of gravel below. Kept dirt and clay (I do pottery) out of the drains.
If I didn't have one in the house, I would definitely expect to have one in the garage at least. There are many things I clean that I don't want anywhere near my kitchen sink and are far too big for the bathroom sink. Things like the mop bucket, where are you going to dump that? I guess you could use the bathtub, but then I'd have to clean the tub. Or filling or rinsing out the garden sprayer. My DH soaks his grungy, stinky workout clothes there. I clean the BBQ grates, or the grates from the gas stovetop there, etc. I would feel cheated if I didn't have one in a house I purchased. To me, it's a necessity. We even have a second one in my DH's workshop for his greasy automotive hands, and cleaning garden tools, or cleaning off muddy shoes, etc. The workshop one drains into a large bucket so we don't get mud and grass into the pipes.
Renovating my home and bathroom near laundry room. I was considering removing my slop sink in my laundry room. Is this a bad idea? Would I regret it? I rarely use it now, there is a bathroom adjacent to it. A cabinet would go in it's place. So why might I possibly regret getting rid of the slop sink?
It serves no purpose to me. In fact, when we were shopping for homes, if the laundry room had one of those sinks, I passed on the house.
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If you don't need it and are not planning to sell soon, go ahead and yank it out. We like ours but never turn on the water, because I have a drip system timer connected to it, with tubing running through the wall to the garden. We also use it to put a wet mop, or hang wet clothing above it to drip, like a jacket coming in from the rain. BTW I never heard it called a "slop sink", for us it's a "utility sink."
I grew up knowing your “slop sink” as a utility sink. And a “slop sink” was what most people call a mop sink.
Anyway- would always want a slop/utility sink. I prefer one in a base cabinet (storage) over a freestanding.
^^^ This!
Slop sinks (mop sinks) are heavy duty cast sinks, usually with a metal protective rail on the edges, set so the edges are no more than two feet from the floor. Traditional main use was emptying mop water and cleaning 12 and 16 oz cloth mop heads. Any place where floors require mopping regularly have them. Every theatre I have been in has at least one.
A sink near a clothes washer is called (wait for it...) a laundry sink!
A home laundry sink is often heavy duty plastic or fiberglass and mounted so the lip is at normal counter height. If freestanding, the front lip is typically narrow and not meant to stand the level of abuse a slop sink gets.
A utility sink could be any sink in a mudroom or garage or shop or shed, mounted at the height and placed where it is useful to the task. It could be a repurposed kitchen sink, slop sink, or laundry sink.
Is OP's slop sink at floor level? I've only seen those in schools or hospitals. Don't know if they still use them. As for utility or laundry room sinks - I consider them a must. I wouldn't buy a house without one.
I would not eliminate plumbing. If it's an aesthetic issue put a nicer one in. That's my gut reaction. Whenever I have had one I found myriad uses for it. I think you end up using a bathtub when you don't have one and also dump mop water down the toilet.
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