[jyl]

There is a good sheet metal supply shop near me. Normally you go there for ductwork and so on. They’ll make custom stuff. They made the ducting for my kitchen venthood. I’m going to have them make me some galvanized pans with drains, I can dump such floods into the basement (unfinished, floor drain) or even to the outside (via hose).

I hate plumbing. I know two people who’ve had their houses flooded by a large leak that started when they were away on vacation. In both cases they had no basement floor drain, their basements filled up. One lost their ground floor and part of their second floor, they lived in an Embassy Suites for nine months while the house was being repaired, One lost a lifetime collection of rare books. Culprit was a copper pipe in upstairs bathroom that a plumber pinched and soldered because he was too lazy to properly cap it. The other one his neighbor noticed
something was amiss so he merely lost part of his ground floor. I was the neighbor on the other side, remember getting rousted in the middle of the night for that.

If indoor plumbing won’t so useful, I wouldn’t have any.