Putting a washing machine in an outhouse

ormus

if you live in aberdeen , im surprised you go out at all, between september and march.

SailorSam

The water supply for my outside goes through the wall from the kitchen, i have an additional stop-tap inside and in the winter can turn off the supply there, maybe you could do something similar.
I have a porch at the back of the house, the washing machine and dryer are in there. It is single brick with cement render outside, but just bare brick inside paited or tiled, the floor is lino, there is no heating but we've never had a problem of freezing.

ormus

good point. always fit another stop valve inside the house for any ouside supply.
re freezing in winter again, if you live on the english coast you very rarely get temps below freezing.
my bother who lives in weymouth, very rarely sees any temps below zero.
hardly sees any frost either.

nesssie1702

If you're putting an electrical appliance into an outhouse or garage, it's always a good idea to lift it off the floor with a couple of bits of wood. That way the metal isn't in direct contact with the floor and is less likely to rust if the floor gets at all damp.

We've done this with our chest freezer and our tumble dryer out in the garage and so far so good

sancho

We've got the keys!!!

Woo!!

Don't move in until Sat, went in today to do a few little jobs and cleared the outhouse out, noticed that there were two cables leaving the house, one provides a light for each of the three buildings, the other goes into the toilet/washing machine room into some weird pipe contraption and then into the next door outhouse into a double socket! I know that doesn't necessarily mean it has been done properly, is there any way i can test it is a mains socket, rather than some rude boy who had attached it to the 5A light circuit?

Also decided i'm going to plaster the walls, presume i wouldn't need regular plaster as it isn't 'inside' any ideas?

ariba10

You could put the outhouse light on and plug something into the power outlet, then get someone to switch the individual circuits off at the fuse box to see what runs off what?

Primrose

I would be worried that your machine could be very vulnerable to rusting, especially in cold weather if the machine gets hot and cold air on the outside of the machine causes condensation to form.