Hi all,
I've just bought a new house and it's in a real state - so having seen so much helpful advice on this site I'm hoping you might be able to help me with some questions regarding the Kitchen!
We are looking at a few options and one of them involves knocking through to make a kitchen/diner. We feel this would actually work better if we install the new kitchen in what is currently the dining room.
Please bare with me - I'll get to the plumbing in a moment...
So the dining room currently has a large chimney breast in the middle of the longest wall, which we are considering opening up and putting a range cooker into. This would leave us enough space to the left of the chimney to fit a washer and dishwasher. The waste for these would go out of the left side (as you look at that longest wall) into the drain in the back garden.
Still with me? Good.
To the right of the chimney is about 1400mm before the living room wall. I'm thinking this would be worktop as it's not really enough to comfortably get a sink in I don't think. So I was wondering about putting the sink on that adjacent lounge wall. And finally to my question(s):
1. The sink waste will need to go out the same way as the washer/dishwasher - i.e. the other side of the room. Is it possible to take the pipe round there, which would involve a run of say 1 metre towards the left, followed by a 90 degree turn and a run of approx. 4 metres?
2. You may have realised that this would take the waste behind that chimney breast! Probably a silly question but is that a problem.? What's to stop putting in 2 strategically drilled holes to allow the pipe to pass at the correct fall angle? ...apart from the possible heat output from the back of the oven I suppose...
Anyway, sorry if these are newbie questions - I'm not the most experienced! Thanks for any advice. If this is never going to work, taking the chimney breast out is an option - but an expensive one.
I've just bought a new house and it's in a real state - so having seen so much helpful advice on this site I'm hoping you might be able to help me with some questions regarding the Kitchen!
We are looking at a few options and one of them involves knocking through to make a kitchen/diner. We feel this would actually work better if we install the new kitchen in what is currently the dining room.
Please bare with me - I'll get to the plumbing in a moment...
So the dining room currently has a large chimney breast in the middle of the longest wall, which we are considering opening up and putting a range cooker into. This would leave us enough space to the left of the chimney to fit a washer and dishwasher. The waste for these would go out of the left side (as you look at that longest wall) into the drain in the back garden.
Still with me? Good.
To the right of the chimney is about 1400mm before the living room wall. I'm thinking this would be worktop as it's not really enough to comfortably get a sink in I don't think. So I was wondering about putting the sink on that adjacent lounge wall. And finally to my question(s):
1. The sink waste will need to go out the same way as the washer/dishwasher - i.e. the other side of the room. Is it possible to take the pipe round there, which would involve a run of say 1 metre towards the left, followed by a 90 degree turn and a run of approx. 4 metres?
2. You may have realised that this would take the waste behind that chimney breast! Probably a silly question but is that a problem.? What's to stop putting in 2 strategically drilled holes to allow the pipe to pass at the correct fall angle? ...apart from the possible heat output from the back of the oven I suppose...
Anyway, sorry if these are newbie questions - I'm not the most experienced! Thanks for any advice. If this is never going to work, taking the chimney breast out is an option - but an expensive one.