Laundry Renovations across South Australia

Laundries take water from every direction: washing machines, troughs, wet mops and the occasional overflow. That is why Australian Standard AS 3740 treats a laundry as a wet area and, where a floor waste is fitted or the floor is sheet flooring, requires the floor and its junctions to be waterproof rather than merely water resistant. We apply a membrane to the whole floor and the wall areas around the trough and taps on every laundry we renovate, whether or not the standard strictly requires it, and we recommend a floor waste so a burst hose drains away rather than into the hallway. Many older South Australian laundries were never built this way, and a renovation is the chance to fix that.

The best laundry renovations start with how the room is used. Where does the washing land, where is it sorted, where does it dry on a wet day, and where do the cleaning products live? From those answers come the layout: a bench over the machines, a deep trough, overhead cupboards, a hanging rail, and a tiled splashback that runs the length of the bench so splashes wipe off. We coordinate the plumber for trough and machine connections and the cabinet maker for benchtops and cupboards, then tile around them.

Floor tiles in a laundry should be slip-rated for wet conditions under AS 4586 and dense enough to resist detergent and dropped items. Large-format porcelain is the usual choice, laid in line with AS 3958.1 with a floor waste set into the falls. Splashbacks can match the floor or introduce colour and pattern, because a laundry is one room where a bolder tile costs little and lifts the whole space. We renovate laundries in homes across Adelaide and throughout regional South Australia.