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We are completing a remodel and are installing a laundry room on the second floor. We have already purchased the Whirlpool Duet front loading washer and steam dryer. The floor was supposed to be tile but when the new wood floor was laced into the old they did it in the area that became the laundry room. Custom cabinets were already built but both the architect and the cabinet maker forgot to account for the flood/drain pan that is supposed to go under both machines. We currently have a different type of plastic pan sitting on the wood floor under each machine and attached to a drain. However the pans are several inches larger than the base of the machines and don't fit with the cabinets. Several options were recommended - fabricating two metal pans or removing the machines and tiling under them. If we get metal pans fabricated, what is the recommended size of pan relative to the machines? Do they have to be 1" larger all the way around? How high of a lip is needed? Would putting tile in part of the room and having a floor drain work or is a lip needed in front of the machines? Which solution is the most likely to protect us in case of a leak.
Are there other options for drainage in the case of a leak?
Are there other options for drainage in the case of a leak?