A laundry corner with a front-load washer in a Victorian flat with the washer in a back hall, seen from a low angle, the washer door catching the light.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Washer repair in Presidio Heights.

On a dry day more than 80 million gallons of wastewater from neighborhoods such as Presidio Heights flows to one of three SFPUC treatment plants: Southeast, Oceanside or North Point.

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What Presidio Heights does
to a washer.

The SFPUC's 2025 report puts total dissolved solids in San Francisco's tap water at an average of 95 parts per million, within a range of 24 to 197.

The same report lists an average pH of 9.3 for the city's water.

A one- or two-unit home here can add a simple laundry-to-landscape graywater system without a permit, as long as it leaves the plumbing unaltered and follows the city's 12 guidelines.

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Older housing stock

Houses built long before automatic washers often got one wherever a drain could be found, and the standpipe, trap and supply valves may be far older than the machine. A washer that drains slowly or gurgles is sometimes reporting on the house's drain rather than on itself.

Designed laundry rooms

A house whose kitchen came from a designer usually got a laundry from the same hand: washer framed by cabinets, perched on a matching drawer. That neat fit leaves little slack in the hoses and drain, and pulling the machine out for service takes patience.

Small homes

Getting at the pump of a closet-bound stacked or 24-inch washer can mean unstacking the dryer or walking the washer forward inch by inch. Floor protection and a steady hand on the supply valves come with that territory.