If you spend a good portion of the summer outside in your backyard, now's the perfect time to have an outdoor sink installed. Outdoor sinks are the perfect addition, especially if you're concerned about the health and well-being of your family. Here are just five of the reasons you need to have your plumber install a backyard sink before the summer is over.

1. Gives Your Kids Access to Fresh Water Outside

During the summer, kids spend most of their time outside. While they're outside, they usually grab a drink of water from the nearest garden hose. Unfortunately, when kids use the garden hose as a watering station, they're at an increased risk for illnesses, such as Legionnaires' disease or Pontiac fever.

In addition to exposure to diseases, they're also at risk for exposure to harmful chemicals. That's because water from garden hoses contains bacteria, chemicals, and other toxic materials that pose a health risk for your kids. Some of those chemicals include cadmium, lead, phthalates, and BPA. To provide your kids with access to fresh water while they're outside, install an outdoor sink in your backyard.

2. Take the Risk Out of Warm Weather Water Activities

If your kids are like most, they enjoy water balloon fights and other water activities that require a faucet. They probably run inside to use the kitchen faucet, which leaves you with a watery mess inside the kitchen and bathrooms. Unfortunately, water on the floor is the leading cause of slip and fall accidents inside the home.

One way to keep the watery mess outside and prevent serious injuries is to provide additional access to water right from the yard. Not only can your kids fill their water balloons up at the outdoor sink, they can wash their hands before they eat their lunch at the picnic table.

3. Keep the Maintenance Clean Ups Out of the Kitchen

Now that summer is here, you have a lot of maintenance to take care of outside, including home, yard, and car maintenance. If you normally go in the house to wash up, you should know that any chemicals that your hands come in contact with go inside with you.

That means that when you splash water at the sink, you deposit droplets of harsh chemicals on your counters, as well as on the back splash. Not only that but if you work on your car or in the garden, you also leave grease and mud on your counters. With an outdoor sink, all that messy cleanup stays outside.

4. Wash Your Dog Without the Bathroom Mess

If you suffer from pet allergies, you need to wash your dog about once a week. Unfortunately, bath time can make a serious mess of your bathroom. You can try to wash your dog with a garden hose, but that can lead to possible burns for your dog if the water has heated up inside the hose and you don’t think to run it long enough to get the hot water out.

One of the benefits of an outdoor sink is that you can keep your dog clean without making a mess of your bathroom.

5. Improve Your Outdoor Kitchen Setup

If you've constructed an outdoor kitchen, you need the addition of an outdoor sink, especially if you plan to do most of your meal preparation outside this summer. An outdoor sink allows you to prepare your meals and cleanup afterwards without the need to run back and forth from your home.

This also allows you to be safer. Similarly to the water balloons, you’re less likely to slip on any spilled water while walking between areas.

If you want to have an outdoor sink installed in your backyard this summer, and you live in the Coral Springs, FL., area, contact us at Moody Plumbing Inc.