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Laundry Room Remodeling Design Dilemma

Where to put 2nd floor stacked washer dryer?

4 years ago

Check out the floor plans, but it seems either shortening bedroom 2 and making a hallway accessible stacked washer dryer where the current bedroom 2 closet is could be one option, or finding a spot for it in the master ensuite. What would you recommend and if you say master ensuite, would you add a separate door access from the master bedroom so it is a separate enclosed area from the bathroom?

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Patricia Colwell Consulting

4 years ago

I don’t like 2nd floor laundry rooms since I hate having to climb the stairs everytime I need to move laundry from washer to dryer.Is there a way to just have it on the main floor.

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Original Author
4 years ago
My understanding is most people prefer 2nd floor laundry. To put on main floor, we'd have to pretty much lose all of our main floor closet space or fully renovate kitchen and hide it in a cabinet somewhere. Keep in mind, you'd still have to do extra trips with getting the dirty laundry from upstairs, bring it downstairs, then bring it back usptairs when it is clean.
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We did it in our old Victorian house for pennies. We turned a closet in the bathroom that was behind the tub (!!!) into a laundry closet with a stackable. Complete DIY job and I would definitely do it again. Our only "problem" was that the pipes up there couldn't handle the flow of water as fast as it came out of the washer. So the draining washer water backed up into the bathtub, which filled with about 6 inches of dirty water during a load until draining out. It never caused the tub to look dirty or left a ring or anything. We just lived with it as a quirk and I absolutely LOVED not having to lug clothes up and down to the yucky old basement via the yucky old non-standard basement stairs. The draining is something to really understand before you start demolishing your setup. We had no problem selling that house--everyone wants convenient laundry access and no one cared about the draining into the tub thing in this Victorian town. The hardest part was getting the stackable up the curving Victorian stairs. My husband and his friend almost toppled and killed themselves doing that. Just make sure you have a disaster plan in place--as for any 2nd floor laundry-- if something breaks or overflows, you don't want water all over going into the ceiling of the floor below. Use the best fittings that last (no plastic), the tray, etc..
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
4 years ago
One trip down one trip up I love my main floor laundry and It is in just an oversized closet. BTW Mmost of my clients have changed their minds after seeing me do laundry one day.
B T
4 years ago
Either you're hauling your butt upstairs to flip, or you're hauling your clothes downstairs and upstairs to wash and dry.

Ooh... dumbwaiter to the laundry...
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Charles Ross Homes
4 years ago
I've lived in homes with 1st floor and 2nd floor Laundry Rooms. There's a good argument for locating the Laundry Room close to where dirty laundry accumulates--which is typically the bedrooms. However, you need to consider when/how you do the laundry. If you multi-task making dinner and doing the laundry, then plan on going up and down the stairs a number of times if the Laundry is on the second floor. That's more logistics than my brain or body cares to handle at the end of a day.

Also consider the implications of a failure in a washing machine hose or other watery mishap in a 2nd floor Laundry Room versus a 1st floor Laundry Room. In my opinion, it's worth the extra cost of a leak sensing shutoff valve such as the one made by Watts https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands/intelliflow
threers
4 years ago
How and when you do your laundry should decide where you put the washer and dryer. I had them upstairs for years in a closet outside the main bath and found it convenient. Never any danger of overflow or flooding as the flooring under the machines was lowered and a drain pipe installed.

If you decide to put it upstairs in the second bath, consider eliminating the bathtub, make your shower a little bigger and used the saved space for your laundry.

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