Our washing machine (a Miele) can be felt or heard throught the whole house when on spin. It was fine in our last house on a concrete floor but in this one it seems the wooden floor is more bouncy than normal.
We've had Miele out to check the machine and taking it outside onto the driveway cures it - you can balance a glass of water on it no problem.
I've cross braced the joists underneath and it's made a little difference but not enough. It's sitting next to a gas boiler and shaking a gas appliance probably isn't too good an idea in the long run.
The Miele engineer said we'd need to pour a concrete block for the washing machine to sit on. We can raise the counter enough to do this and I was thinking of making it 1200mmx600mm as I figured the wider it was, the less rocking motion it could have.
I've never seen a concrete block on a wooded floor though so a couple of thoughts;
1. How deep should it be to do it's job and to avoid breaking?
2. I'm presuming I should make a frame from wood, but do I pour it straight on the floor or line it with plastic e.g. blue polythene?
3. Just a standard concrete mix will do?
4. Would pouring a thinner layer of concrete and topping it with a smooth flat paving slab work as well or better and would that slow down the setting of the concrete?
We've had Miele out to check the machine and taking it outside onto the driveway cures it - you can balance a glass of water on it no problem.
I've cross braced the joists underneath and it's made a little difference but not enough. It's sitting next to a gas boiler and shaking a gas appliance probably isn't too good an idea in the long run.
The Miele engineer said we'd need to pour a concrete block for the washing machine to sit on. We can raise the counter enough to do this and I was thinking of making it 1200mmx600mm as I figured the wider it was, the less rocking motion it could have.
I've never seen a concrete block on a wooded floor though so a couple of thoughts;
1. How deep should it be to do it's job and to avoid breaking?
2. I'm presuming I should make a frame from wood, but do I pour it straight on the floor or line it with plastic e.g. blue polythene?
3. Just a standard concrete mix will do?
4. Would pouring a thinner layer of concrete and topping it with a smooth flat paving slab work as well or better and would that slow down the setting of the concrete?
