Out With The Old Laundry Sink

The old soapstone laundry sink in the basement, the one that came with the house has been having issues. It has a huge crack all around the right (main) bin so it leaks water all over the floor any time you use the washing machine. It has been calked and patched but never holds. There is also an issue with draining, IE it will not drain unless you plunge it, and the second bin also fills up with water. The third bin, well some crazy person drilled holes around the drain. Why?? I guess to help it drain, all over the floor?!?! AWESOME! So it's a three chamber soapstone laundry sink that has one semi-decent working bin in the middle and the two on each side are utterly useless.

RIP 1915 -2013 (soapstone tubs don't observe leap years)

In my laundry sink research I found that the more bins your laundry sink had the more affluent you were...well call me hoity-toity! In 1915 it was common to have a laundry tub, meaning a portable galvanized tub to do your laundry in. If you had money you had a permanent laundry sink in the basement of your house. If you had even more money you had a two chamber laundry sink to wash your clothing in, one for wash water, and one for rinse water. If you were rolling in the dough you had a three chamber laundry sink, one for washing and two for rinsing! Think of how clean the original home owners whites were!    

The smash of a sledge hammer and zip of a sawzall and there are only pieces left. I plan on saving the faucets, they are fun and quirky.

Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit - WIN

Dan and I took a trip to Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit to see what sort of goodies they had. I have been meaning to go there for a while but never seem to remember until the day after. It was cold, snow covered warehouse, and of course we neglected to note the hours of operation because we were there 1/2 an hour before they opened. We pulled up to the gated parking lot and and my eyes widened as I saw it.
It was covered in snow, with a plastic tub parked on top of it. It was big, it was glorious, it was heavy, it was...a two chamber cement laundry sink!
Now to come back when they were actually open.

We spent about an hour looking around the warehouse at all the goodies and finally asked about the cement laundry sink outside - $30. Deal, now how about a delivery service? I recall the exact response was "Hell No!!! Do you know how much that thing weighs?!?!" Nevertheless I managed to talk them into delivering it to the basement for another $30. :)