{"id":20374,"date":"2014-04-17T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=20374"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:08:13","slug":"the-minton-ideas-and-renovation-45-the-yard-the-washer-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/04\/17\/the-minton-ideas-and-renovation-45-the-yard-the-washer-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minton: Ideas and Renovation \u2013 45 \u2013 The Yard, The Washer, The Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the unit types at The Minton have a yard toilet, and one interesting challenge for such unit type owners has been if the yard toilet can be repurposed into a washer area. I’ve blogged about our intention to do exactly just that from our renovation’s get-go, but there were various things to consider and put into place. Specifically, to have converted the yard toilet into a washer, we:<\/p>\n

Had a Professional Engineer certify that such an alteration would be alright, and had the endorsement submitted.<\/p>\n

Removed the existing toilet bowl, created a washer-base and drew new water inlets and outlets<\/p>\n

Removed the foldable door and its door frame, and touched up the door way<\/p>\n

Once the area was ready, what remained was for us to select a washer that could fit past the door way, for it to be turned around and put onto the base. We’ve been using a 6.5 Kg Electrolux front-loading washer for 8 years now, but while the machine is still nominally functional, there’s a great deal of mold growing about the edges. Washers are largely standard width and height for the most part, but their depths can really differ. I had my eye on a 9 kg Electrolux front-loader (the EWF10932<\/a>) – we needed a larger capacity in view of our king-sized mattress bed linen and supplements, and also the amount of laundry Ling does for the kids – but it was a tough decision whether to risk buying this 665mm deep washer and if it’d actually fit past the door way!<\/p>\n

To help us decide, I made an actual-size footprint of the washer base – 665mm X 650mm – out of packing box cardboard, and tried several times to fit this mockup past the door way. I discovered through the trial runs that it wouldn’t be easy, but it was possible. Basically one would need to push the washer in side-facing first, slowly jiggle it bit by bit at an angle until it sits properly into the washer base.<\/p>\n

Still, we had our designer on standby to remove the wash basin if for any reason the actual thing wouldn’t fit. And a week ago since we made our order, I was a little nervous if my calculations were wrong; we’d be possibly stuck with a washer that could not fit into its designated area!<\/p>\n

As it turned out, the washer indeed just managed to fit in. Hooray for trial runs! Credit had to really go to our designer who thoughtfully relocated the outlet\/drainage pipe and also water inlet all the way to the far corner, allowing the washer to be pushed all the way back behind.<\/p>\n

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Before the delivery and about a month ago; the newly created washer base during our main renovation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The new Electrolux EWF10932; one of the larger front-loader washers in the line. Ling is happy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We didn’t need to activate our designer’s workers to temporarily remove the wash basin after all. Quite a relief!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We were expecting that even if the washer could fit in, the washer door would not be able to open fully. We were thrilled we were wrong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The washer door can fully swing open and close without coming into contact with the wash basin – and with buffer space to spare too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old dryer will be next put onto of it soon on our big moving day.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of the unit types at The Minton have a yard toilet, and one interesting challenge for such unit type owners has been if the yard toilet can be repurposed into a washer area. I’ve blogged about our intention to<\/p>\n

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