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When it comes to your utility room, what you have installed in it will depend on the purpose that you have built the room for.  I will use the examples of the difference between my utility room at work and the utility room in my home. 

 

The utility room that I have at work fulfills many purposes.  It is used as a hand washing station for my employees after they have been at a messy job.  It has been used to clean other things such as dirty shoes and boots, certain types of tools, and other equipment we use on a daily basis.  Our secretary who answers calls and watches our front desk uses it on slow days to fill up the mop bucket so that she can mop the tile floors in our front room. 

Since it has so many uses, and many of the uses involve cleaning very dirty equipment and hands,  we have a utility sink installed in it that is durable, but not fancy.  We also have a wall mount faucet that sits above the sink so that when the handles are turned on and off, the water from our hands drips into the sink basin and not on the top of the sink where a faucet would normally sit.  It makes the clean-up and maintenance of the faucet much easier for us (when we have the time to clean it).

            The utility room at home serves a different purpose.  It has our washer and dryer in it and its only purpose is to wash our clothes/get laundry done.  There is a utility sink and a faucet installed in our utility room at home, but they are much different from the ones that are at work.  The sink isn’t as heavy duty-because it doesn’t need to be-and it looks more “elegant” (as my wife would say) than the sink that is at work.  The sink is designed so that clothes that are stained can be scrubbed to help get the stain out (it has groves in the sink to aid in the scrubbing motion).  The faucet that we have installed in this room is sits on top of the sink and doesn’t come out of the wall at all, like the one at work does.

            When it comes to differences in utility room sinks and faucets, the selection and choice is much bigger than the rooms I have described.  The sinks are made out of different material such as the basic plastic, to stainless steel (like a kitchen sink), porcelain, and other material that appears to be granite.  The sinks can be mounted to the wall, installed above or beneath a counter, or even rest on legs that are provided with the sink.  Faucets can be as basic as a one handle faucet, to one that has a large arched spout with two separate handles, and possible the option of some sort of sprayer attached to them.  No matter what you use your utility room for, you can find the sinks, faucets, and other parts you need at: https://www.plumbersstock.com/category/6/utility-room/