Main Floor Or Upstairs Laundry

Upstairs laundry rooms layouts are dictated by the layout of other upstairs rooms and usually are assigned a lower priority by designers and architects when it comes to spacing.

Main floor or upstairs laundry.

The noise will keep you awake. Moisture is a major concern with laundry room floors. Even if space isn t at a premium a whole room devoted just to doing laundry can seem wasteful. We ll show you four diy steps to prevent a water catastrophe such as adding a washing machine pan.

Laundry room flooring considerations. In many cases we are remodeling a kitchen along with creating a new laundry room. An overflowing washing machine a clogged drainpipe or a cracked or severed water supply pipe even short of those emergencies water is always present in laundry rooms. Find the price to add plumbing cabinets a utility sink and more.

Find laundry room remodel costs including the cost to move washer and dryer hookups upstairs or into a converted closet or garage. Second floor laundry rooms can create a lot of damage if the wash machine leaks. A pull down ironing board. In fact given that when you re engaged in this time consuming chore you re inevitably multitasking.

When to locate the laundry room in the basement. A laundry room relocate to upstairs can be convenient. One of the best things about locating the laundry room in the basement is that it offers you more freedom with the layout. The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs.

Upstairs and or near bedrooms. On a second floor try to position it so it backs onto a bathroom. Wash the clothes near the place where the clothes live. A leak or overflow in an upstairs location can cause major damage.

At first blush it seems to make a lot of sense too. In catastrophic events water can issue from many different sources. A soaking sink and countertops for folding clothes. You can easily access.

You won t have to spend a lot of time or money and you ll safeguard against an upstairs flood. Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas. Do carefully consider location. A laundry chute could cut down on some of those trips.

For convenience on the main floor anywhere off the kitchen makes sense as does a mudroom or off the garage. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs. But you ll still have to carry the clothes back up. If your home has two or more stories then putting your laundry room on the main floor off the kitchen means that you re a flight of stairs away from the bedrooms and hampers on a busy laundry day that means a lot of trips up and down.

We often reuse the kitchen countertop material such as granite or corian in the laundry room. He prefers finishing the whole laundry room floor with tile and installing a floor drain.