Our house in Ellensburg has an upstairs laundry room. Its large, has lots of cabinets and storage and room to leave the ironing board up. I find the upstairs laundry an annoyance. Since I'm not upstairs during the day it's an interruption to run up and down to answer the chime of the dryer and when I iron, I'm in a big white box with no diversions. I'd rather have a main floor laundry and take the finished clothes back upstairs when they're done. I'm faithful to hang and fold clothes when the dryer stops and never leave them in the dryer. Running the machines at night is a distraction because the fluorescent lights shine in the bedroom door and the dryer chimes for 2 1/2 minutes at the end of the cycle.
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retromania
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Upstairs Laundry
I just now read this. I hear your complaints. I am so used to running up and down the steps in my townhouse. I am not experiencing the health problems you are, though. If so I am sure I would be tired of it also. Since I found out there is a pan that can be put under the machine to catch a possible overflow and the fact that the drain can be routed directly out through the wall erases a great deal of the anxiety I've had about moving my machines upstairs. That's one advantage of this blog. You get lots of advice from people who know. I sympathize with you about the fluorescent light shining in your bedroom. I have to sleep in total darkeness. Sometimes relatives from out of town will stay with me. I put a night light in the bathroom off the hall so when they come out of the guestroom they won't turn left by mistake and fall down a flight on uncarpeted steps.
I just now read this. I hear your complaints. I am so used to running up and down the steps in my townhouse. I am not experiencing the health problems you are, though. If so I am sure I would be tired of it also. Since I found out there is a pan that can be put under the machine to catch a possible overflow and the fact that the drain can be routed directly out through the wall erases a great deal of the anxiety I've had about moving my machines upstairs. That's one advantage of this blog. You get lots of advice from people who know. I sympathize with you about the fluorescent light shining in your bedroom. I have to sleep in total darkeness. Sometimes relatives from out of town will stay with me. I put a night light in the bathroom off the hall so when they come out of the guestroom they won't turn left by mistake and fall down a flight on uncarpeted steps.
I hear you, Kelly! My laundry room is on the lower level (down 10 stairs from the main level), and I've often eyed the extra linen closet in the bathroom on the upper level (only 2 stairs up from the main level) as a far more convenient place for the washer/dryer. It's close to the kitchen, dining room, and bedrooms. There's an outer wall on the left side of the closet (perfect for dryer exhaust) and on the right is the bathtub/shower (close to water pipes and drain).
Have you spotted a more convenient location for laundry in your Ellensburg home?
Closed doors: The bedrooms in my little house (built in 1963) are very small by today's standards, so I had to chuckle when you mentioned you feel as though you've been put in time out when the door is shut. I only close my door if there are overnight guests in the next room, and it always feels too "closed in". [this post was last edited: 6/30/2013-07:38]
Have you spotted a more convenient location for laundry in your Ellensburg home?
Closed doors: The bedrooms in my little house (built in 1963) are very small by today's standards, so I had to chuckle when you mentioned you feel as though you've been put in time out when the door is shut. I only close my door if there are overnight guests in the next room, and it always feels too "closed in". [this post was last edited: 6/30/2013-07:38]
danemodsandy
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Downstairs Laundry Rooms....
....Ain't no damn day at the beach neither!
In the Marietta, GA house (which was huge), the laundry room was on the lowest of three floors - two floors below the bedrooms. And I was caring for a bedridden partner who tended to, shall we say, soil things?
It is amazing how much better my knees have gotten in the four years since that time.
....Ain't no damn day at the beach neither!
In the Marietta, GA house (which was huge), the laundry room was on the lowest of three floors - two floors below the bedrooms. And I was caring for a bedridden partner who tended to, shall we say, soil things?
It is amazing how much better my knees have gotten in the four years since that time.
We had two laundries in one house we had in New Orleans. Had a full size laundry in the bedroom wing of the house between master bath and the bath for the two other bedroom. We had it when the dirty clothes we dropped in the bath room and fell into baskets. Had the false backs to the linen and towel closets so we could fold and we had baskets to hold folded clothed an along a hanging rod for hanging clothes. The other was in the other side of the house for another bath, bedroom and kitchen and close to the pool area. We had a Maytag stacked unit there. Worked great for us.
My house had a dumbwaiter.
I am eventually going to restore it to operational status. Laundry chutes are great, but they only work in one direction
Dave
I am eventually going to restore it to operational status. Laundry chutes are great, but they only work in one direction
Dave
xraytech
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I personally prefer a basement laundry room
mickeyd
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Ain't nuthin' like a washer in the kitchen.
Every now and then, Kelly, when I'm gathering up towels from the upstairs bath, or pulling the sheets off the bed, I think: wouldn't it be neat to have a washer up here. But where, and what about the plumbing, etc, and the water recycling I love to do, especially with sheet water. Unlikely to ever happen.
Now I understand another reason why you so love using your Kenmore Conventional on the ground level, outside sometines, right ?
Can't remember if you hang the sheets and towels to line dry outside.
Every now and then, Kelly, when I'm gathering up towels from the upstairs bath, or pulling the sheets off the bed, I think: wouldn't it be neat to have a washer up here. But where, and what about the plumbing, etc, and the water recycling I love to do, especially with sheet water. Unlikely to ever happen.
Now I understand another reason why you so love using your Kenmore Conventional on the ground level, outside sometines, right ?
Can't remember if you hang the sheets and towels to line dry outside.
More and more people with two story homes are asking for upstairs laundry rooms since that's where most dirty clothes end up. Not great if there is ever a leak, but for many people convenience trumps all.
Upstairs Convenience
My point is that having laundry upstairs is NOT convenient. I'd rather bring it down where I am all day and be on top of moving loads through, pulling some items damp, and folding or hanging everything as it comes from the dryer and then ironing items that need it as they come out of the dryer. This means countless trips up and down the stairs for each load. Even though the exercise is great it takes me away from food, people and projects all residing on the first floor while I run up to deal with each load of the laundry and the pursuant ironing, alone, by myself, with no diversions and hope nothing burns or over bakes while I am upstairs. Carrying the dirty laundry down and the finished laundry up and using a main floor laundry is much more convenient and time saving.
My point is that having laundry upstairs is NOT convenient. I'd rather bring it down where I am all day and be on top of moving loads through, pulling some items damp, and folding or hanging everything as it comes from the dryer and then ironing items that need it as they come out of the dryer. This means countless trips up and down the stairs for each load. Even though the exercise is great it takes me away from food, people and projects all residing on the first floor while I run up to deal with each load of the laundry and the pursuant ironing, alone, by myself, with no diversions and hope nothing burns or over bakes while I am upstairs. Carrying the dirty laundry down and the finished laundry up and using a main floor laundry is much more convenient and time saving.
A second bathroom I have w/ just a sink & toilet would make a good main-floor laundry for me... Though it would only hold a stack-able washer & dryer & the sink would have to be removed w/ the plumbing re-routed for filling the washer & the drainage pipe for the toilet to have to be a stand-pipe for draining the washer & an electrical connection put on that wall behind the unit as well...
But I would find the bathroom more of a necessity, than something I'm in the habit of running up & down stairs to & from unless I just put the 2nd bathroom in the basement in the area below, in which case, some rebuilding of walls would have to be done for the enclosure of...
I think I just need another staircase, then to get to the basement laundry located just below the bedroom/master bath area, then; the single stairwell is off to the side of the kitchen where my auxiliary bath is...
-- Dave
But I would find the bathroom more of a necessity, than something I'm in the habit of running up & down stairs to & from unless I just put the 2nd bathroom in the basement in the area below, in which case, some rebuilding of walls would have to be done for the enclosure of...
I think I just need another staircase, then to get to the basement laundry located just below the bedroom/master bath area, then; the single stairwell is off to the side of the kitchen where my auxiliary bath is...
-- Dave
