On Sun 01 Jun 2008 01:00:39p, Smarty told us...

The drain plumbing (a PVC strainer cap cemented /"welded" in a 1.5" inch
PVC pipe) lies underneath and is covered completely by the washer, and
would need to be removed until the new tray and its new drain are
cemented in place. Tilting the washer up on two legs doesn't really
help, The washer has to be taken off of the old tray, and then the old
drain would be removed, the old tray would then be removed, the new tray
installed, and then the new drain cemented. There just isn't any
practical way in this closet-sized space to prop up the washer on two
legs while all of this is going on, nor are there two additional people
available to hold the washer up and keep it up during the plumbing work
and tray replacement.

If the room were larger the washer could indeed be moved aside, and the
lifting and moving could be accomplished by two people fairly easily.
Since the clearances around the washer, the dryer, and the tray are just
a few inches in this closet, the contractor suggests (and I concur) that
they do the removal in the obvious way, namely, to take the washer out
of the room entirely, and move it into a neighboring bedroom until the
plumbing repair is done.

My question, as before, is thus.....how to fix a broken tray without
removal of the tray, removal of the washer, replacement of the drain,
etc. The front lip is cracked and broken. We are talking about putting
in a water-tight lip on a 29 inch long plastic tray...........

Why is question so hard to address as originally stated and then
subsequently restated????

Many thanks,

Smarty



"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:28:36 +0000, Smarty wrote:

My son and his wife moved into a house with a second floor laundry
room.

To prevent washing machine overflow from pouring onto the first floor
ceiling below, the washing machine sits in a large plastic tray which
has a raised lip around the perimeter and a floor drain connected to
the bottom which empties into a drain / waste PVC connection. The
washing machine laundry tray looks like this:

http://tinyurl.com/6f8ubu

The front edge / lip of the tray has been broken, leaving no
protection against water overflow.

The obvious solution is to buy a new tray, temporarily remove the
washer, install and plumb the new tray, and then (with two muscular
people) lift and set the new washer down onto the new tray. This is a
few hundred bucks
using local contractor parts and labor.

A normal human being can tilt most residential size washers on two legs
and otherwise manipulate it where you could replace the tray with the
help of another non-muscular person.

Well, Smarty, you did receive one very good suggestion... Fiberglass cloth
or tape, and resin. When it cures it will be watertight.



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Wayne Boatwright
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