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[PatrikLundell]

Courier is a fixes space font, which makes it very useful for those kind of things.

Edit: Regarding contamination of the grates: I've observed them being contaminated by blood, only to have that washed away shortly after.

Edit 2: I've seen the strange effect that water that occasionally gets through the diagonals of the washer spontaneously has transmuted the rock into muddy sand. I know of the effect/bug where building on top of mud and removing the mud can randomly transmute the rock underneath, but this is the first time I've seen it happen on its own.

[PatrikLundell]

Necro AND double post, but I think the Dwarf Washer is handy, and I encountered a solved a problem (I'm using Loci's design).

In my previous embark I pumped from and to the aquifer, and it worked perfectly. On my current embark I'm blessed with a center tile without an aquifer surrounded with tiles that do have it, so I drew water from the aquifer through a sideways channel (with a bridge to cut the flow, or I get the basin overflowing). However, I got too much water (resulting cancellation spam) raining down on my dorfs. After a few attempts I've managed to stem the flow to mostly a single unit of water by reducing the access to the tile each pump draws water from to a single diagonal access. Two diagonals mostly worked, with occasional 4 units of water. Thus, there seems to be a need to both restrict the input AND the output (although input restriction might make output restriction unnecessary: I haven't tried).

[PlatinumSun]

Be wary of these Dwarf Washers. I once read 2 or 3 stories online about a monster with deadly blood contaminating the water and giving all of its Dwarves necrosis. I remember one of them they just killed a tick(Funnily enough) so the dwarves covered in blood walked through a water fall which went into the water supply and it caused an out break of the necrosis. Needless too say that fortress was abandoned and a new one was erected beside it.

But for an entrance washer you should be perfectly fine. But still its best to be careful.

[PatrikLundell]

The purpose of the washer is to wash it away. If a contaminant goes down into the water it will be purified by the magic of the screw pump before it's showered on the next dorf. A trench foot bath could spread contaminants, though. The well cistern draws its water from a different aquifer location.

Leaving the dorfs to trail the necrosis inducing substance all over the floor inside without any washing is not a good idea either, by the way. I definitely needed a washer for my previous embark, as the syndrome rain caused permanent tuberculosis (i.e. coughing of blood), so I wanted to restrict the number of dorfs affected (I also turned off cleaning, as that was rather pointless).