Poll: If you have a utility sink in your laundry room

[fryjack2]

Do you use it?  For cville

For those that can't see the poll, options are:

Yes, often
Yes, rarely
No
I wish it wasn't taking up space
I wish it was a dog washing station 

[mofongo]

Yes, and our dogs are 20lbs, but it’s big enough to wash them:)

[ECB]

I said rarely because it’s in an odd corner and hard to turn on. So i don’t use it often at all

[gummybear]

Yes, daily. Our dog eats in the mud room and we use a pitcher to fill his water throughout the day., which we fill up in the utility sink. I also soak things, wipe down shoes, wash paintbrushes, fill watering cans, and throw damp/dirty dish towels in there until I’m ready to do a load. This is just off the top of my head.

[gretchenindisguise]

Ours stores paper towels.

Other than shoes - what do people use them for? Pets? If we get a cat will we use it? 🤣

[Nonny]

I don't have one, but I wish I did. My washer doesn't have a soak feature, and it would be so much easier to do laundry stripping of my athletic gear if I at least had a utility sink.

I have to do stuff upstairs in the bathtub or kitchen sink, and carry it dripping downstairs in a portable wash tub. It sucks.

[scm1011]

I’ve never used it in the nearly 3 years I’ve lived here.

[silvercrayon]

Yes, I use it a lot!

[dontlook]

My old house had one but I don’t have one in my current house. I miss it so much. Frequent use was just cleaning up things I don’t want in my kitchen sink: rinsing off puked on clothes before putting in the wash, rinsing dirty cleaning rags, rinsing off muddy rainboots.

[brooklyn]

Yes! I wash paint brushes, golf balls, kids toys, and dog toys in it fairly regularly.

In my dreams where I’m a millionaire I want to move the basement laundry to the second floor, and turn the current laundry room into an additional bathroom with a shower and dog washing station.

[dexteroni]

Our laundry room is off the kitchen. When we bought our house a few years ago, I didn’t think we’d ever use the utility sink and one of my “down the road” projects was going to be replacing it with a closet. But we actually use it all the time. I’ll toss a wet hand or dish or dog towel over it to dry, rinse recyclables and leave them to dry, clean off muddy shoe soles, rinse the mop, etc. I will say that probably a full third of the sink usage comes from having dogs. So if you don’t have dogs, you might use it less. But we still use it for plenty of non dog purposes.

[cville]

Apr 7, 2024 16:07:35 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Ours stores paper towels.

Other than shoes - what do people use them for? Pets? If we get a cat will we use it? 🤣

I can assure you that there is no sink, shower, tub, bucket, or other vessel capable of holding water that is either necessary or useful for cat washing. Because cats don't need baths.

[dexteroni]

Ok cville now that I’ve read your two posts that fully round out this situation, I rescind my recommendation. Is the laundry room still going to be your sun room and not the kitchen? If so, you may not get as much use out of it. And if space is at a premium, a closet or shelving may be a better use. Although if you do end up adding one, you can get the kind that’s installed in a countertop and add top and bottom cabinets to add storage.

[expectantsteelerfan]

I posted in the other thread that we have a utility sink in our garage and in our main floor laundry room, and both get used regularly.
The laundry room sink gets used to soak stained laundry (although I do use a small bin inside the sink and don't fill the whole sink usually) at least monthly I'd say (usually it's dd getting ketchup on a favorite shirt or the dogs getting mud on something I like), to hang super wet stuff, like if a kid knocks over a full glass of water and then we use one of the dog towels to wipe it up, that towel gets thrown over the sink until I do a load of dog laundry, to wash out dog collars/leashes that don't go in the washer but need cleaned occasionally, and to wash out really gross things occasionally (I have washed shoes off with a scrub brush in them before for dd now that she likes white shoes).

The garage sink got used to wash out paint brushes when we moved in, but mostly it gets used to fill watering cans, water balloons, water guns, etc.

[meowmaps]

When I had one it was in the laundry room and yes, it was used frequently.

[jane6672]

When I had a house, there was a utility sink in the murder basement in between the washer/dryer.

I used it for soaking laundry (ancient machine did not have soak feature), and washing paint brushes. These were infrequent activities, though handy when I did them.
It was also so deep it wasn’t very ergonomic for me.

I did not use it to wash shoes.

[joy]

Never. Hate it. Set it on fire and take it away.

[CurlyQ284]

I don't use it for what it's intended for.

We have basement laundry and the washer is set up to drain into the utility sink. There's a pump under the utility sink that forces the water up to ground level to go to the septic tank. It's been explained to me that it's necessary to have it set up this way and we can't not have it.

I don't get it, I've had basement laundry before and no sink, but it was city water not septic so maybe that has something to do with it?

In any case, because of the pump, things besides water are not supposed to go through it. I hose off pukey sheets or whatever out in the yard with the hose and we bang dried mud off of shoes on the brick wall behind the garage 🤷

[sadlebred]

Where is the poll option for "I just want to click something." FWIW, I don't have a utility sink and would LOVE to have one put in if there was room for it somewhere.

[basilosaurus]

I answered yes for when I had one. There's always something larger that needs a washing down. Ideally these would be hosed down outside, but apartments can be weird. Washing down muddy hiking boots, for instance, can only be done inside the controlled access laundry room, and there are no outdoor hoses. I'm sure it was hell on the drains. I also used it for the less nefarious just constant running water to clean something like blood stained linens. I'm not a psycho killer, you nutters, just a woman with unpredictable periods.

I never had a dog that would fit in one, she got the big human tub. If I lived in a place without a tub, as I did after her, I have no idea what I would have done. I have a vague memory of my dad washing our cat in the sink, but we only had him for a year. The cats I've had since I would never attempt. If they're clean enough for themselves, they're clean enough for me.

[basilosaurus]

Apr 7, 2024 20:40:55 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

In any case, because of the pump, things besides water are not supposed to go through it. I hose off pukey sheets or whatever out in the yard with the hose and we bang dried mud off of shoes on the brick wall behind the garage 🤷

You're assuming everyone has access to a yard and a hose. Sure, I can get most of the crud off my shoes outside, but I'm going to have to take them into the utility sink to actually get them clean.

I don't like that such crud is going through the pipes. I live in a place where even tp shouldn't go through. But if you have that sink and the infrastructure to support it, I get using it.

[katiecj6]

We use ours all the time. It's a laundry/mud room and all of our cleaning supplies are there, so if we fill a bucket or rinse a rag, we use that sink.

I say we, but I have a cleaning lady who does most of the cleaning and she pretty much only uses that sink.

[pinkpeony08]

After our remodel, we still have our old utility sink in the basement - I really only use this for things like cleaning paint brushes. We have a stainless steel sink in the laundry room on the first floor. We use it for watering plants that are in the laundry room, filling dog dishes, soaking stains, etc. it’s smaller than the basement one, looks nicer and does get used regularly.

[CurlyQ284]

Apr 8, 2024 4:43:27 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Apr 7, 2024 20:40:55 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

In any case, because of the pump, things besides water are not supposed to go through it. I hose off pukey sheets or whatever out in the yard with the hose and we bang dried mud off of shoes on the brick wall behind the garage 🤷

You're assuming everyone has access to a yard and a hose. Sure, I can get most of the crud off my shoes outside, but I'm going to have to take them into the utility sink to actually get them clean.

I don't like that such crud is going through the pipes. I live in a place where even tp shouldn't go through. But if you have that sink and the infrastructure to support it, I get using it.

No I'm not assuming anything for anyone else, the question asked do *I* use it. I'm just answering, if other people do things differently, that's fine!

[sonrisa]

Enough that I’m glad it’s there.

[pandora89]

Maybe a handful of times, but hardly, I wouldn't miss it if it were gone.

H wants to take out the sink and put a deep freezer there lol.

[sonrisa]

Apr 7, 2024 20:40:55 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

the washer is set up to drain into the utility sink.
🤷

this is how both the washer and sishwasher (hose goes through a hole in the wall) were set up by the original owners of our home. It will take a full kitchen remodel as well as a lot more to fix. Blarg.

[devonpow]

SS - we use ours frequently PLUS I wish we had a dog washing station

We use our utility sink for shoes (lots of track spike mud goes in there) anything particularly gross that needs to be rinsed first (when the kids were younger things like vomit etc - fun!) random things like when we had to empty the shop vac of water. Random stuff. The AC condensation also empties into it, so in the summer that’s always going.

[JayhawkGirl]

I have a whole baseball pant soaking process and am so glad to have my laundry room sink.

[mala]

Frequently. I do wash my work dishes in the utility sink, but even if you discount those dishes, we use it a lot for washing shoes after hiking and for Big Kid's rock tumbler (to get water to rinse, waste water from the rock tumbler goes in a bucket and outside not out the drain).