How to make a podium for a washing machine with your own hands

If you live in a small apartment, then you know firsthand how important every square meter, and sometimes even a centimeter, is. Therefore, we offer you an interesting, affordable and relatively simple way to save space – to make a podium for a washing machine with your own hands. “What is the point of saving?” – you ask. After all, the podium is still a waste of space! Next, you will see that this is a useful thing that will serve you well.

Advantages of installing a washing machine on the podium

This design has practically no disadvantages, there will be only pluses from the podium in your apartment:

  1. The washing machine does not take up much space, because it can be located on an unclaimed housing area.
  2. If the stand for the washing machine has a drawer, then every little thing can be hidden in it – laundry detergents, soap, rags, brushes, etc.
  3. The podium significantly dampens vibrations if the design was made in accordance with all the rules.

Important! Having installed the machine on a high podium, you will be able to use it much easier. Namely, you don’t have to bend your back to throw laundry into the tank.

Selecting a room

The plus is that a podium for a washing machine can be made not only in the bathroom, but also in other rooms, and home craftsmen have accumulated a lot of ideas for implementation.

Usually, a stand for a washing machine is made in such rooms:

  • in the bathroom;
  • in the kitchen;
  • in the bathroom or toilet;
  • in the pantry;
  • on the veranda.

The last two rooms are unlikely to be found in ordinary apartments – these options are suitable for owners of private houses. And for urban residents, the first options are suitable. If the washing machine will stand in the bathroom, then the stand is best placed under the sink. If the machine is placed in the kitchen, then by tradition it is installed in a niche, in the middle of the kitchen set. And if you decide to send the washer to the toilet, then the podium can be designed behind the toilet. Speaking of a veranda or storage room, there can be a lot of solutions for these rooms, which depend on the type and area of ​​uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe rooms.

What you need to create a podium for a washing machine

If you need a stand for a washing machine, making it yourself is not so difficult. It is important to choose the right materials and tools, choose the type of future design.

Important! The podium should be as stable as possible in order to withstand the weight of the machine at 60-80 kilos. So plastic, PVC, gypsum boards are suitable only as cladding.

The podium itself should be made by choosing from the following materials:

  • brick;
  • foam block;
  • concrete;
  • wood bars 100×100 or 150×150 mm;
  • metal corner;
  • polycarbonate plate and so on. 

But not so durable, but more aesthetic materials are suitable as cladding:

  • tiles, ceramics;
  • plasterboard (waterproof);
  • plastic;
  • Chipboard (waterproof, laminated). 

Speaking of the tool, it’s even easier with it. Take a look at your tools, you may not even have to buy anything:

  • Master OK;
  • level;
  • measuring tape, tape measure;
  • hacksaw;
  • electric drill, electric screwdriver;
  • angle grinder;
  • construction pencil;
  • crosshead screwdriver.

Attention! You can also buy special blocks or slabs of polycarbonate to order. It is enough to choose a company, tell it the dimensions, and they will produce and deliver the material from which you can quickly and easily assemble the stand.

Common types of podiums

The simplest podium. Level 1 How to make:

  1. Take 2 wooden blocks, 63 cm long.
  2. Put them in parallel.
  3. Between the bars there should be a distance equal to the width of the washer.
  4. Lay 2 boards 60x3x30 cm on the bars.
  5. Screw the boards to the beams using self-tapping screws.
  6. You will get a semblance of a shelf.
  7. A ledge 30 mm wide will remain in front.
  8. Lay a 30 mm wide board on the ledge, turning it edgewise.
  9. As a result, you will have a podium with a side, the width of which will be 270 mm. If you want to reduce its width, cut the board lengthwise into two pieces.
  10. Fix the side with screws.

Disadvantages: it will not be possible to install a container for small things.

Advantages: the machine will gain additional stability, it will work well and quietly.

Important! Stop your choice on larch when buying bars. This type of wood is not afraid of moisture.

On a note. To make such a podium more attractive, you can sheathe it with drywall or use other finishing materials.

The podium is more difficult. Level 2 This stand is made of brick in this way:

  • Lay the bricks in two walls, parallel to each other in one layer. The distance between these walls is equal to the width of your MCA.
  • Lay a concrete or polycarbonate slab over the walls, fixing it to the cement mortar.
  • Sew a couple of metal corners to the plate in front.

Such a podium is more spacious from below, so you can make a box under the washing machine in it, in which you can put all the necessary little things for washing. If the box is made on wheels, then it will be both stylish and convenient – you pull the handle, and everything you need is before your eyes. This podium is suitable even for the smallest rooms, such as a toilet in Khrushchev, however, then it will not work with a box. The design of the podium for the toilet is slightly modified:

  1. Lay the drain pipe on the floor with bricks.
  2. Build walls.
  3. Cover with a plate.
  4. Then everything is the same as described above.
  5. You can overlay the podium with ceramic tiles.

Not everyone likes the option, but it saves a lot of space.

Cool podium. Level 99. Its coolness is that you don’t really need to do anything: just order polycarbonate blocks and slabs and put everything together later, like a children’s designer. Blocks and plates are fastened with self-tapping screws, and that’s it – you can use it!

Important! Monolithic polycarbonate is a good choice. It is durable, not afraid of water and humidity, and very resistant to mechanical damage. No matter how the machine rides on such a podium, it is as strong as a rock.

There is only one drawback: the price. But who will stop if you want to save space and give the machine a chance to work a few years longer? Installing the machine on a finished podium Building a stand is half the battle, you also need to hoist a washer on it. Many do not know how to raise the washing machine above the floor correctly so as not to damage anything. There are several important factors to consider:

  • Calculate the distance to the outlet. If you forgot to do this when building the podium, then at least check before you start moving the machine. If the cord is not long enough, you will have to use an extension cord, which is undesirable.
  • The water supply hose is also short, but you can buy a longer hose or extend the existing one.
  • To prevent self-draining, you need to raise the pipe of the sewer system. It is worth raising it so that it exceeds the surface of the stand by 40 cm.

How to raise the pipe:

  1. Connect the elbow to the old pipe.
  2. Connect a pipe to it, taking a piece of the desired size.
  3. Install the drain hose into the sewer pipe.

Features of the operation of the CM on the podium

Most users are afraid that at high spin speeds, when the machine starts to jump, it may jump off the podium. It’s really possible. That is why it is advised to make bumpers in front so that the machine does not crash. If the podium is so high that you calmly, without bending, put the laundry in the tank, then there may be difficulties with the cuvette, it will be difficult to get into it. It is necessary to think over the height of the podium to a millimeter, so that you don’t have to bend your back, and you don’t have to jump to the cuvette.

In general, we can conclude that a washing machine installed on a podium is not only a space saving, but also a small compensation for the obvious shortcomings of the equipment.

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