Improve Your Laundry Room
A laundry sink is a great addition to your laundry room. Sometimes it is also called a laundry utility sink or tub. It is useful for common cleaning purposes and is an excellent place for soaking and hand washing of clothes. Mops and rags can also be easily cleaned if you have one of these. It is commonly located not only in laundry rooms but also in mudrooms and basements. Sinks of this type vary in sizes although most are often more than a foot deep. This simple container is an inexpensive and practical addition to help you clean the house like during mopping of floors or washing small animals.
Some people may find installing a laundry room sink old fashioned. Now that there are automatic washers and dryers available in the market, laundry sinks are becoming a thing of the past. However, they still remain to be an indispensable tool in any household, and can fulfill special purposes that most other sinks can’t. If you are planning a laundry room improvement, a laundry room sink can be the best to do it.
Laundry Utility Sink Uses
A laundry tub is used mainly for washing purposes. It is a convenient way to soak garments and hand wash delicates like hand sewn quilts. Aside from the obvious, a laundry sink also finds itself useful in many other situations. One such instance is for keeping bottled beverages cold and chilled on ice. Many times during an occasion, you may find your refrigerator full with snacks and food. You may opt for a cooler as a container for beverages but for an alternative, you laundry sink can do the job instead of a bulky cooler. Fill the tub with ice and dump in your beverages. Everyone has full access to the drinks, plus you can also free up some floor space and reduce the chances of people tripping over some bulky cooler on the floor. Another innovative way to put laundry sinks to the scene is for defrosting large quantities of meat. Use it as an extension of your kitchen where you can defrost large amounts of roast or chicken meat enough to feed a whole backyard full of guests. This will also keep your kitchen cleaner and your fridge with more space for other important things.
Material
A laundry sink can be made from metal, ceramic, or plastic composites. A stainless laundry sink is usually the top choice for most households because it is durable, lightweight, and very strong. They can also serve as metal storage shelves when you’re not using them for laundry. Ceramic sinks are the most beautiful but are sometimes more expensive. Plastic sinks are gaining popularity because aside from being lightweight and durable, they are also easily cleaned and resistant to attack by chemicals most commonly found in detergents.
Design
Style will always be a very important consideration about everything you plan to add to your home. At first glance, you may observe that these sinks are all similar, but in fact, small but important differences characterize them. Make sure you get what you really need and want. A major difference is the wall-mounted design versus the stand alone one. Decide whether you want to install a wall mounted laundry sink or will it be better if you just buy a four legged stand alone sink which is easily added to your laundry room. An important deciding factor is to consider whether or not the wall mounted can support the weight which you intend to use the sink for. If you’re planning to use it for large batches of clothes, then a standalone model can be the wise choice. Another consideration that logically follows from this is the size of the sink. Common laundry sinks can contain up to 20 gallons or more. To add beauty to your laundry room, you can use different colors to match the scheme of your house. Backsplash tiles are good enough to be aesthetically pleasing yet useful because backsplash tiles are waterproof and durable, perfect for the moist environment of the laundry room.
Cleaning Laundry Sinks
After a hard day of work, your sink deserves a thorough cleaning to bring it back to its original beauty. Routine cleaning can prevent buildup of dirt on the surface, which is harder to remove. Fortunately, cleaning laundry sinks are relatively simple. All you need is a scrubbing sponge, detergent, and bleach.
Many will claim that a laundry utility sink is a thing of the past. If you are one of the persons who disagrees to this, then you may be one of those who have used their imaginations and found new ways of exploring the endless benefits of a laundry sink.
Uses of Laundry or Utility Sinks
Laundry sinks are also known as laundry utility sinks or just utility sinks. As the name suggests, this equipment could be used not just when washing dirty clothes but also when doing other household chores. Thus, you could find them usually positioned in spots near the front or rear doors, or also near a door leading to the garage or carport. They have deeper and wider basins making them more useful than the average kitchen sink.
So here now is a quick guide on how you could use your utility sink:
- Since it is spacious, laundry or utility sinks make a good spot to water plants that need some soaking. So to prevent you from having plant dirt all over your bathtub or kitchen sink, you could just place the potted flowers or plants in this sink.
- The sink is also useful when doing tasks like mopping the floors. Doing so will prevent floor dirt and chemicals used for floor mopping from getting to your kitchen sink.
- Large, laundry sinks also makes a perfect place to wash smaller animals like dogs and (if you’re brave enough), cats. They are especially good if your pet isn’t too fond of the water and does a lot of wiggling. Having a deeper sink basin and an area that you’re OK with a bit of a mess makes things much easier on you. And in turn, this makes things easier on your beloved pet, too.
- Its practical use also includes cleaning up of big messes. So if you have just fixed your car or if your kids have just come in from play, you and your kids could wash those filthy hands in this sink. If your kid’s muddy shoes are also a problem, you could wash them all up in this type of tub. Many a mud covered football or soccer uniform, along with all the accompanying gear, has found it’s way being marched back to the laundry utility sink after initially being brought in (very briefly), to the main house.
- Outdoor utility sinks that have smaller basins are also perfect if you want to clean up after gardening. Some of these outdoor sinks also have slots where garden hose could be attached.
Designating a laundry utility sink in your home could really help in promoting cleanliness as they serve as a “mess area.” Here, you could have all the extreme messes without having to worry about the rest of the house. So if you want to maintain the cleanliness of your home efficiently, this type of sink could be your best friend.