Is having 2 master bedrooms by reducing # of bedrooms a pro or a con?
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Reducing the cold in bedroom above a crawl space.
Comments (8)Thanks to everyone for some helpful feedback. Again, there does not appear to be a concise consensus. The original baseboard was along the back wall and not near the window wall. I had it moved since that heat would essentially be behind the headboard, end tables and bookcase. Leaving that wall free of obstacles would not have made good use of the room. I also did not want that heat rising right into our heads when we slept. I had the plumber move the radiator to under the window. This unit is not as long but is a higher output baseboard unit. AS it is shorter, it may have less overall heat output than what it replaced, but I also felt that placing it under the three windows would be more helpful. I would have preferred a cast iron radiator, but the wall of windows is bowed and the window sills are pretty low to the floor. A cast iron unit would not have fit. Not only would it sit too tall, but the wall under the window was not deep enough to sink a unit into. I don't want to open the crawl space to the rest of the basement because that would mean additional heating costs- since the basement is used for more than storage. Over the last several days, the crawl space has almost uniformly been 15 degrees cooler than the master bedroom above it- even with the very variable outdoor temperatures as of late. The crawl space was about 15 degrees warmer than the temperature outside, but I honestly did not track that often enough to see how variable this temperature change was- only noticing this on the milder days of late. When I am advised to insulate the exterior wall, "I would add 2" Polyisocyanurate board on the out side wall below grade and down to frost depth" does this mean on the exterior of the house or on the inside of that exterior wall? The exterior wall is mostly butted against a poured cement driveway, although the rear portion and back wall are surrounded by lawn. I appreciate the range of feedback here. There are obviously several ways to increase heating efficiency and retention. Rob - Long Beach, NY...See MoreDoes anyone have 2 laundry rooms? Pros/Cons?
Comments (12)Tanem makes a good point on the laundry chute and evaluating how you do laundry. I should have expanded my thinking too as my second floor is for a daughter and grandson, my daughter has gone back to school. So that laundry is for her. When she moves out and that floor is mostly for guests, they can use it when needed. My son will have the basement level, and I was going to put one down there, but decided he can bring his laundry up to the main laundry room. Our master, and everything for our old age is on the main floor so that made that laundry room decision an easy one. When my daughters were both home, and doing lots of laundry, they did their own, so a 2nd floor laundry would have been very handy for them. Especially when they put it in and forget about it. Every time I would want to use the washer or dryer, seems like there was always something already in it. We are still building but I am getting a rack for my front loads so it makes them stackable so the w/d upstairs is a full size, so even if a person only used it for bedding etc, it can handle it. Our old house, laundry was in the basement of a 2 story, with no chute. I would tend to take it all down there in hampers (3 stories) so I was the chute, and I still hated going down there to do laundry. So my new laundry is going to be close to the kitchen also, so I am going to love that. I thought about a w/d closet in the master or close but we come in dirty alot and strip down etc so wanted to keep the laundry over by the mudroom, which is close to the kitchen, so I think it is all going to work out great. I will say though, that we are renting a 1965 ranch, with a laundry closet in the bathroom, with another huge closet for dirty clothes.... now that is handy. There is only one tub/shower in the house, so everyone's dirty clothes are right there. It is a pretty nice set up actually....See Morepros/cons of first floor master
Comments (29)We are going through the same thing in adding on to our small 2005 ranch home. Our bedroom is on the main floor, but the walk-out basement finish and addition has all the other bedrooms on the lower floor. We have a 3-year old and will soon have more kids. When I asked our contractor what he thought (he has children in high school & college) he said they built one of their houses with the bedrooms down the same hall as the master and as soon as the kids turned 6 to 8 years old, they wanted a basement bedroom away from Mom & Dad. I think it will be just fine keeping a bassinet in our room for an infant, then use a video baby monitor for the young kids in the basement. Plus, where we live, there are tornadoes & I'll be happy knowing they'll already be on the basement level. They can also be as noisy down there as they want to be later on. When I grew up, it was in an American Foursquare home with all the kids upstairs & we didn't have any issues. I was the oldest, so was posted in the first room by the stairway as hall monitor ( : When things got wild with my brothers, the downstairs chandeliers would shake & Dad would immediately calm them down - a type of kid monitor, I guess, LOL....See More2nd story master bedroom addition ideas
Comments (9)Exciting project! Lots to think about... Since it's over the garage, do you need to worry about fumes, insulation, fire codes, etc.? Additional soundproofing for when the garage door goes up and down (if anyone uses the door while another person is asleep upstairs)? Also have you looked into height, lot coverage & setback requirements? (Sometimes the setbacks for garages or single stories are different than those for 2 story structures.) Other items which you may already know, but just in case... - Building an adequately stiff floor over the long spans of the garage below without requiring posts below. - Heating and cooling of the new space, since the space below is (probably) not heated or cooled. - Where your plumbing lines / waste drain will run, and will that require tearing out any walls below And others I'm sure the pros will think of....See Morechispa
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