How To Install a Washing Machine Drain Pan for Upstairs Laundry Area

In this video we show you how to install a washing machine drain pan. We opted to use some 100% silicone for our installation to ensure the best possible protection from leaks.

0:00 - Washing Machine Drain Pan Intro
0:16 - About This Installation
1:39 - Indirect Drains
2:00 - Drill Hole Into Drain Pan
3:31 - Add Silicone
4:13 - Install Washing Machine Drain Pan
4:37 - Where My Drain Pan Drains To
5:45 - SUBSCRIBE!!!

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[robinAlberta]

Very helpful, but, in my opinion, this video would have been better if there had been more cat. Please include more cat in the future.

[JamaicanPoetry]

cat out here living it's best life 😁

[mikedrake]

Great info! Like the little show your buddy put on at 2:12 lol

[Samlol_drrich]

If this were my house, that indirect drain would completely miss the sink and all the water would wind up on the floor. You make absolutely great videos. I watched all the way through even though my washer isn’t anywhere that flooding would damage. Speaking of flooding, I use braided washer hoses that automatically cut off the water flow if they sense a sudden immediate change in pressure ie burst hose. With a second floor setup that’s important.

[samspade]

Actually, if prepared properly, a sloped floor to a room floor drain is best. That plastic pan almost always gets damaged if your doing a solo install of the washer...not to mention the pain if ya have to service the unit. Also, that 1" drain line is not enough if ya have a major fail as it will be overwhelmed and the pan overflows...seen it happen many times over the years.

[Scatch_YT]

Silicone definitely helps seal around the pipe ours leaked under the pan because the drain hose backed out a bit and the seal was gone. I am at the point I'm thinking to just put a liner under the flooring and plumb in a floor drain because it's a PITA when having to move that machine in and out of the pan for maintenance.

[Eddy]

Good little demo vid Benji ...Thx for posting ...

[terence]

Excellent video and all under six minutes! Thx for sharing.

[m.m.land_YT]

do you have a video where you show how to drill into the floor and install the PVC to run an indirect drain?

[rockozctd]

Great furry helper you got there, just saying hi from Amiret and i enjoy your videos.

[mattalbrecht]

I know in our city, code requires an actual FLOOR DRAIN for any laundry (laundry room) above the ground floor (2nd floor and higher) IF the home is on a slab. If the home had a basement (rare in Texas) or crawl space under the main floor, then a floor drain is required in that instance as well depending on when the house was built. A drip pan alone wouldn't do and would be unnecessary (because of the floor drain).

In some ways it makes sense, because if your washer were to develop a serious leak, or the water hose was to rupture, that drip pan would never keep up. But I think these drip pans are nice for what they are intended:. Drips!

Is this on an upper floor in your house? 2nd floor laundry facilities are nice. 4 of our 5 bedrooms are located on the 2nd floor of our house and I always thought it would make more sense to have laundry facilities closer to where people slept, changed clothes, etc. Not to mention there was always a parade of kids or guests carrying clothes baskets up and down the stairs to wash their clothes on the first floor. Now they do not and just walk down the hall. I think we are probably the only two story house in town that has laundry facilities on each floor. Very handy - but I am not so sure I'd do it again, as it was a lot of work. The second floor had bathrooms, but it did not have the infrastructure to support a stacked washer and dryer, so all of that had to be added. Glad I did it though, because it's been quite a time saver.

Nice video!

[ofcv]

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[gcaban]

Can you drill a whole in the center of the pan?

[paulbonenberger]

A 2 inch pipe is required by code in my city. I would waterproof the room and install a 3 inch floor drain if I were to have one in my house. A 1 inch drain isn’t going to take all the water from a plumbing accident.I would put a sensor with automatic water shutoff in that pan as well.

[ethanhull]

Did you put in the drain line yourself? We need a drain pan on the second floor but I am not sure they have a line for it to go somewhere

[kpdvw]

better to extend the drain line in the basement to follow the wall and then hook over the laundry sink with a 90....

[guylockhart]

always good info, thanks.
any idea when you will start up the mini split?

[Fullrusher]

My new place has this pipe in the ground but also a hole where the hot and cole inlet things is on the wall, should i use the one in the floor or the one in the wall ?

[MAGAMAN]

Get one of the rubber drain pans if possible. Those plastic ones slide all over the place and literally will tear themselves apart over time, making them useless. They have no grip to the floor and the washer will have no grip on the plastic.

[kimberly]

Is there any concern with compromising the integrity of the pan by not using one of the pre-drilled holes? Could it cause cracking in the pan down the road?