Shelf to support a washing machine (Ed.)

[blup]

Some manufacturers provide kits to enable one machine to be placed in another

 

[Why Not Indeed]

Mine is in a cupboard on a shelf in our wet room but it's only about 20cm off the ground so could well not be a "shelf" as such and more like a plinth. I will see if I can work out how it was constructed.

18mm ply on 2x1s on 200mm centres. It is shelf-like in that it is not supported in the centre, ie, it could have been 100cm off the ground with other shelves under it.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Some manufacturers provide kits to enable one machine to be placed in another

Yes, but that's for a much lighter dryer, on top of a very heavy washer..

 

[cdbe]

On the floor though, usually

But that's what's being suggested here - 3x2 at an extremely short span, sitting on ledgers mounted to the walls, with a thick plywood base - essentially a very solid floor

 

[robinbanks]

I've never heard of a washer being put on a shelf

Makes sense to me; no kneeling on a cold hard floor to un/load the thing and very easy to put a bucket under the pump access panel if it needs manually emptying..

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Makes sense to me; no kneeling on a cold hard floor to un/load the thing and very easy to put a bucket under the pump access panel if it needs manually emptying..

It would still need the drain hose, to rise up almost to the top of the machine - so the stand-pipe, will also need to ensure this.

 

[dormermike]

Yes, but that's for a much lighter dryer, on top of a very heavy washer..

modern heat pump dryers are as heavy as washing machines - 50-60kg range

I've binned the shelf idea for other reasons but thanks all, some interesting discussion!

I personally think it's a good idea, raise up the WM, and have storage beneath it, but anyway other ideas...

 

[Odds]

Makes sense to me; no kneeling on a cold hard floor to un/load the thing and very easy to put a bucket under the pump access panel if it needs manually emptying..

If you live in the 1950s, yes, i suppose it does.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I personally think it's a good idea, raise up the WM, and have storage beneath it, but anyway other ideas...

It would be a major issue, simply raising the WM, up to that height, to get it onto a shelf in a confined space. When I have needed to do repairs on our WM, where I've needed to raise it off the floor, I have found it best to rock it from side to side, whilst sliding in off-cuts of rail sleepers, a little at a time, finishing by slipping milk crates under. The idea of raising the weight up 4 or 5 feet in the air, without mechanical assistance, doesn't bear thinking about.