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Hi, thanks in advance for your expertise and advice…
I’m in the process of plumbing a refit of our utility room. Along one wall will be dryer, washer, sink cabinet, dish washer at which point there’s a corner with units along the return wall. As well as H&C feeds to the sink, I’ve also got H&C going out to outside taps with shut-offs and drain points. Cold feeds to the appliances as well as wastes should be to this cabinet as well, but I can see it getting quite congested (as well as having lots of holes in the back of the cabinet) by the time there are a couple of double sockets to power the appliances as well.
If you were installing an appliance in a customer’s house, how annoyed would you be to find the cold feeds in the void under the cabinet rather than in it? Brought forward to around the middle of the cabinet rather than hiding at the back… I’ve always installed my own appliances, but there’ll come a point at which a pro will end up working in here, and I’d prefer that they weren’t cursing about the idiot who plumbed it like this!
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RichardSo long as you can isolate the machines and get them out without dismantling stuff it should be fine and, the side benefit is that if you ever need to replace a machine life is easy.
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That’s great thanks. Just the toe boards to pop off, so all accessible, just below rather than inside the cabinet. I suppose the only issue would be if one of the isolation connectors started to weep at some point in its life and couldn’t be left disconnected for any length of time. It’d be something of a pita to swap one out with only 5 or so inches to swing spanners…
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