I’m not going to yell about the laundry sink. I never had one, don’t have one now, and can die a happy woman if I never have one in the future. I can see how it might be a nice-to-have, but you’ve got bigger fish to fry.
Congratulations!!!
I assume, with all those City sign-offs, that the Zoning one isn’t going to give you any problems.
No laundry sink here either.
Having said that…7 toilets? Would losing one of those have kept the laundry sink?
Congratulations on the hurdles passed! Especially good news on the sprinkler issue. If you have to give up the basement bath, can you put the garage and laundry sinks back in? (I am one of the fans of a laundry room sink rather than having to use a bathroom sink or tub for hand laundry and soaking, etc.)
I wish I had two ovens just for Thanksgiving Day! LOL. Go with the two wall ovens.
Seven bathrooms? How many square feet is the house?
Have a laundry sink next to basement W/D and also have a stackable W/D in closet on bedroom floor, but never considered a sink in the garage but would love one. Were you designing that as a potting bench?
Having just read Marilyn’s post above, I realize that I do not have a laundry sink but a utility sink. Large, deep and unattractive. The dehumidifier drains into it from a shelf above. It just happens to be located next to the W/D. I do use the basement bathroom sink for hand washables as that sink is very large and smooth, so no snags.
How do you get seven toilets? I thought there was one for each bedroom (4 bedroom), plus powder room, plus basement. That’s 6 toilets, not seven. What am I missing?
The only thing I wash in any sink these days is my very expensive Wolford panty hose that I wear about twice a year. Everything else – everything!! – goes in the washing machine. Cashmere sweaters, tights, my expensive bras – everything!! And everything comes out fine. So I don’t need a laundry sink.
ETA: I do use a mesh lingerie bag for bras.
I was one of those that suggest you didnt need a LR sink a while back. I’m with VeryHappy- I throw everything in my new LG Washer.
On the rare occassion I need to soak something overnight it, like to get out sunblock screen yellowing on white tops, it goes in one of the seldom used sinks in one of out 3 bathrooms.
But losing a clean up utility sink in the garage would be a shame.
cant have it all…
You can’t have it all. I think you have to be careful in a spec house that you don’t spend money on things that aren’t really needed. While utility sink and laundry sink are nice it isn’t worth the added cost of a new water line. In my old house I had a utility sink in garage but it was also the laundry sink since my washer was in the garage. When I remodeled that house I got a laundry room that was also my backyard entry door. That sink was great since that was the door we used when coming in from the backyard with dirty hands. My present house has a huge laundry room with a sink. I rarely use that sink though I’m glad to have it. My laundry room now is a separate room and I usually only go in that room to do laundry or get stuff from storage.
I vote for double oven with one being convection. I don’t like the convection/microwave as the 2nd oven. If someone wants a separate microwave they can buy a counter one. Or if you have room make a cabinet built in one.
I think you’re doing a great service with your posts. It is great to have a realistic picture of how difficult it is to remodel a home. My H when he built spec homes preferred to buy places that were a tear down. He always said with a fixer upper you never knew what you were going to find once you opened things up.
My mistake… we are 6 toilets and 10 sinks!!! That includes garage sink, laundry sink and kitchen sink.
The threshold is 39 gallons per minute on all the fixtures in the house. I had to give up the existing large garage wash basin (which comes in very handy for our construction) because Zoning was having a fit that I was turning the old garage into ‘liveable’ space with a sink. And, questioning why I needed another sink in garage right next to the existing basement bathroom. Yes… it was like a potting sink (was actually a huge old concrete sink) and also a ‘project’ type sink for cleaning out paint brushes, etc.
After removing garage sink, we still had 43 gpm on this complicated freaking Water Meter Data Card I had to fill out. So, the nice gentleman from the Building Review sat down with me and looked through the plans. I had a couple of choices… change one of the bathtubs to a shower (uses less gpm). This would have been easy if I hadn’t already installed a bathtub in the hall bathroom (big mistake… lesson learned), but I didn’t think I could compromise bathtub in the jack and jill bathrooms. OR reconfigure jack and jill to lose a toilet OR remove entire basement bathroom OR lose the powder room
In the end, he was super nice and said he would let me pass if I just removed the laundry sink (after I pleaded for the basement bathroom) This got me down to 41.5 gpm and he signed a waiver for me. He said the likelihood that every toilet was going to be used at same time was pretty minimal.
I suggest you put in a big , tilt out laundry hamper to hold all the dirty clothes in the space where the sink was to go.
I have a laundry sink but frankly it is just a holding tank for dirty dish rags, etc that otherwise I’d just toss directly into the washer. If I were hand washing delicates (rarely!!) I’d just use my master bathroom sink anyway. I think it is “loseable.”
re: Basement Bath Cleanout 2 pic - I like the 3-gang outlet, I’ve never come across one of those before.
The weirdest plug I’ve come across looked like this: http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/electrical-systems-home-inspection-commercial-inspection/31920-electric-receptacle-whats.html#post205661
Apparently between 1920-1950 you were allowed to wire the same outlet with either 125 or 250 volts, and the outlet could take the plugs from appliances of either rating. What could go wrong there, right?
Fortunately it was not live, and was in a place that was easy to re-wire.
Removing the laundry sink will allow me to have a nice long countertop in the laundry room that can be used for folding clothes and stuff. I might just put in a couple of cabinets on the ends and leave a ‘desk’ type space under the countertop. This allows someone to use the area as a craft/hobby area with a chair or put a large hamper in the empty area.
Lately I’ve seen a lot of dog bed/dog kennel/ dog food areas in houses. This area under countertop could also be a dog bed location.
I cannot imagine doing without either a utility sink or a laundry sink. How do you wash muddy shoes, or anything else you have stepped in off your shoes? I don’t want to do that in a kitchen or bath sink.
Can you always just hose them off outside in the San Diego climate?.
Well, I’ve never had either. 
If they need a laundry sink they can buy the samsung washer with the built in sink. I looked at it but I decided I wouldn’t use it.
Do you still have the outdoor shower? As a surfing family, our outdoor shower well-loved but we were right on the beach so there was a lot of sand to deal with. But that might be something to trade for the laundry or utility sink. Or might be something to jettison altogether if functionality of the whole system is a concern.