The washing machine can alternatively be called a time bomb, ticking away until it is ready to go off, in an uncontrolled flood. One recent adjustment has been attempt to make the washer ‘safe fail’, as in, when it fails, it is ok because it won’t cause much harm. We did this by relocating the laundry facility back to the basement, the place they used to before the second floor trend came into being. A laundry room inside your home is a luxury, so why turn it into a liability by positioning it somewhere where it can do the most damage. And yes, I have done emergency floor drain, and I have clad the floor and baseboard in tile and caulked the edges. Still floods.