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Flik Chik
Citizen
Username: Flikchik
Post Number: 84
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 6:00 pm: | 
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We would like to move the laundry from the main floor. We have three choices: Basement or the second floor or leave it where it is...
Hubby wants to move laundry room to 2nd floor.
I am not so sure....
Where would you like your laundry room?
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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3481
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 6:06 pm: |
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It's a total pain in the basement.
I would kill to have it near the majority of the laundry (2nd floor). When we remodeled, I wanted to at put it off of the kitchen on the 1st floor, but the Boss, I mean TS, overruled me.
Since I don't do the cooking, I had no case.  |
bobk
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 6904
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 6:12 pm: |
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The second floor makes the most sense since most of the laundry (bedding and clothing) is there in the first place. Just make sure that you have a drain pan under the washer.
We have a laundry closet nest to the breakfast area in our kitchen. This is pretty convenient, but the mess does spread around the whole area.
The basement is only good for the exercise value and for those of us who do messy laundry it keeps the crapola out of sight. |
Spare_o
Citizen
Username: Spare_o
Post Number: 160
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 6:23 pm: |
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Having the laundry room on the 2nd floor might mean that the noise would disturb people who might be late or light sleepers. The dryer might also make it a little hotter upstairs in the summer. |
millie amoresano
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Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 143
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 7:28 pm: |
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We have two laundry rooms one in the basement and the other on the floor with the bedrooms. Noise was a concern with us but our new washer (maytag neptune) and the maytag neptune drying center are both extremely quiet.At first I thought something was wrong with both because they did not make any noise. I use the downstairs laundry room mostly for my husbands work clothes.If its possible move the laundry room to the floor where your bedrooms are on,but also consider buying a new washer and dryer which are extremely quiet. |
eliz
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Username: Eliz
Post Number: 897
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 8:23 pm: |
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Wow - Bruno must be doing really well...
We had our washer/dryer next on the second floor of our duplex apt in Brooklyn and it was fantastic. I would kill to have the laundry upstairs now but there really is no room.
If you have the space go for it.
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Michael K. Mc Kell
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Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 474
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 8:46 pm: |
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Leave it where it is.
Unless you plan to do some kind of renovation to utilize the old space it wont help your resale. |
soresident
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Username: Soresident
Post Number: 217
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 9:21 pm: |
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I'd kill for a 2nd floor (or even a main floor) laundry room! Carrying laundry up and down two flights of stairs gets old really quickly. I'd love to be able to throw a quick load in without climbing up and down all the time. |
DeborahG
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Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1102
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 10:45 pm: |
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I DREAM of having a second-floor laundry room again. We had the washer/dryer in our large bathroom on the second floor in Brooklyn, and it was amazing. |
DeborahG
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Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1103
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 6, 2004 - 10:46 pm: |
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PS Eliz -- 
We've got to have lunch sometime, girl. Your posts just crack me up. |
compsy
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Username: Compsy
Post Number: 154
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 6:24 am: |
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Quietness and messiness notwithstanding, laundry on the second floor distributes most widely the task of bringing stuff upstairs where it gets used once it's clean. Right?
--The Ergologician |
mjc
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Username: Mjc
Post Number: 50
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 10:41 am: |
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One of the big attractions when we bought our house was that there were laundry hookups (or anyhow the piping) off the kitchen, and I thought I'd love having the laundry on the first floor. However, we have never moved the laundry up from the basement, because there's more space in the basement for supplies, ironing, accumulation of laundry etc.
I would kill for a laundry chute from the second floor bathroom to the basement, though. |
Michael Janay
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Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1324
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 1:23 pm: |
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We recently put the Laundry in our second floor master bath. It turns out that the previous owners drywalled over a closet (to put in a smallish cabinet). We opened it up, ran the plumbing and electric, and viola.
Its about the greatest home improvement I've ever done. It may not increase our home's value, but it sure improves our quality of life. With a 2 ear old and a new baby I thought my wife was going to die lugging all of the laundry to the basement every day.
No more lugging laundry up and down (or should I say down and up). Its so easy to throw a small load in. No forgetting to go down to the basement to put the load in the dryer.
Noise is not an issue, the W&D share a wall with the baby's room, and you only hear a slight hum through the wall.
We did have to get a new dryer. Our old one was gas, and I wasn't having gas in the bedroom. We got the new Neptune with the drying cabinet, and its cut our dry cleaning bills in half.
If anyone wants to buy a 5 year old Maytag gas Dryer in excellent shape, let me know... cheap. |
peteglider
Citizen
Username: Peteglider
Post Number: 857
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 2:41 pm: |
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definately near the kitchen and/or family room area!
That's where I spend the most time. While I do have to bring laundry from upstairs down to the laundry room -- I can bring a couple of baskets worth down in 1 trip -- then bring them all back up. To me that's easier than running up and down the stairs to start loads, move to the dryer, fold etc.
Of course, remembering the laundromat days -- in comparison in the house is great!
Pete
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shoshannah
Citizen
Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 642
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 2:44 pm: |
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I'd looove to have a 2nd-floor laundry room if I had the space. |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 1903
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 3:07 pm: |
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In my dream redo of this house (don't tell my husband) I'd put a small laundry room where our powder room is now (by the back door which opens right off the kitchen), do a little addition off the front with a powder room and a big closet. Second floor would be great, but that ain't happenin here.
The basement isn't SO bad, I just forget to do laundry.  |
bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 468
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 7:06 pm: |
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Leave it where it is or put it in the basement. For years my sister would yell at me for doing laundry when she was trying to sleep (let me tell you, when you're 15 & 17, these turn into big huge fights). Plus there's probably more room in the basement for items that have to line dry or be placed on a drying rack. |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 327
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 - 8:11 pm: |
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I used to heat up towels in the stackable dryer located in the bathroom, while I was showering. DELUXE ...and this was in my college condo days!
Most high-end residential clients request a bedroom level laundry room (for clothes and towels)and a basement level laundry room for table linens, messy stuff, and overflow. If I were to choose one it would be bedroom level - provided you could find a good spot for a folding table and clothes sorter baskets. |
Mergele
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Username: Mergele
Post Number: 203
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - 9:11 am: |
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I would give one or more appendages to have my laundry anywhere but in the basement.
I too had an easily accessible set-up (albeit a stackable one that broke down every time I turned around) in my 1-bedroom condo days. I could heat up towels on cold mornings, throw clothes in while I was getting dressed in the am for a quick de-wrinkle... it was wonderful.
I do have a wild pipe dream for my current house that would entail blowing out the back wall of my 2nd floor bath, extending it out over the 1-story kitchen addition, and enlarging it to include laundry and some badly-needed linen storage... But that's going to be big and messy and is likely to require a zoning variance. I can only dream. |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1155
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - 9:19 am: |
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In my old condo I had the washer & dryer behind bifold doors in the hall. Although it was VERY convenient, whenever I did laundry (which was only once every week and a half, this was pre-kids) I would have piles of dirty clothes spread on the floor of the bedroom. Because I now have kids and dogs that wouldn't be feasible. I wouldn't mind a laundry room upstairs but it would have to be a ROOM where I can the dirty laundry and have drying racks and the like. A utility sink would be nice as well. I have all of that stuff in my basement and it isn't too bad. |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 392
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - 9:38 am: |
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There are a couple of things that you have to think about when your laundry machines are not in the basement. This is more for the people who want to locate the machines on a second or third floor - where there would be finished living space underneath.
Water leaks -- whether the leak comes from a fill hose, valve or something happens to the discharge hose, it can cause a huge amount of damage. Most discharge tubes aren't permanently connected.
Vibrations -- you will probably find this more with the new front load machines, but they can send vibrations throughout the structure if not on very solid footings. Some people place their machines on cement backer board if they have them on anything other than a cement floor.
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snowmom
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Username: Snowmom
Post Number: 200
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 9:28 pm: |
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Laundry off the kitchen is wonderful, because like it or not, I spend lots of time in the kitchen! Central for the house, everyone can be responsible for bringing their laundry to & fro, help with sorting & folding while watching TV, etc. I have enough trouble keeping our master bedroom to ourselves as it is, don't need more reasons to attract 'company'! |
Moose11217
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Username: Moose11217
Post Number: 40
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 10:06 pm: |
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My wife and I also lust after a second floor laundry room. It's funny how only two years ago when we were still in Bklyn we each would schlepp our laundry down a couple flights and over a couple blocks to the laundromat, and now bringing it all the way down to the basement seems like such a pain in the arse. |
shoshannah
Citizen
Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 649
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 11:44 am: |
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I much preferred my apartment building's basement laundry room to my private-home laundry room. As I discovered the day after we moved in, I can only do one load at a time! In the old days, it was great to do four loads at once and get it all over with. Now it's slow torture. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 4813
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 5:05 pm: |
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I much prefer my private home's washer and dryer to my old apartment building's laundry room. The shlepping was a big deterrent to getting it done. True, I can't get it all done at once, but I can start a fraction of it any time I like.
Before moving to Maplewood, I lived in a "garden apartment" in Edison. I had my own very small washer and dryer in the apartment. Even that was heaven compared with living in a big apartment building.
Now, since the machines are close to me, moving the laundry from one step to the next takes only a couple of minutes...until it's time to fold, of course. |
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