How valuable is second floor laundry?
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Anonymous
| I have 2nd floor laundry and am not crazy about it. I like to do my laundry at night and it keeps my husband up. |
Anonymous
| I don't think it would affect value at all, do what works best for your family. |
Anonymous
| I like having my laundry machines on the second floor. However, it's not important enough to me to sway a housing purchase. |
Anonymous
| I would prefer the 1st floor mudroom over the 2nd floor, but I absolutely HATE basement laundry rooms. I often do laundry really late at night or super early in the morning and would not want to disturb my kids/hubby/guests who are sleeping. I spend the most time on the 1st level with the family room, kitchen, etc. and it would be more convenient to do the laundry there. I hate the basement laundry set up (which I have now - - we are house hunting and I do not want this in the next home) because I end up going up and down two flights of stairs to bring the dirty clothes down and to bring them back up to fold and put away. |
Anonymous
We keep going back and forth about converting a 4th bedroom into a laundry room. The bedroom is a good size for a nursery or an office but while a twin bed and dresser would fit, it's tight. Besides giving up the bedroom, I'm worried about the noise. I can't imagine doing laundry at night when people are sleeping. |
Anonymous
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When they are installed nowadays, the washer is put on a pan that has a drain pipe, which drains into the plumbing in the case of an overflow.
If you're really paranoid, have them install a moisture sensor which will cut off the power to the washer if it detects water. You probably already have these devices on your furnace/AC unit in your house (look on the floor -- they'll have a light). You can also buy water sensor alarms for $10 at Home Depot. |
Anonymous
Ours is next to DD's room and she doesn't hear it at all. Choose a good quality (quiet) machine and make sure it's properly seated on the floor. |
Anonymous
| I am PP who doesn't like the noise at night. I can sleep through it no problems as well as kids, so maybe it depends on if you have heavy sleepers. |
Anonymous
| DIfferent PP. When I do laundry at night, I just put change the washer spin cycle to a medium of low spin cycle. I close the bedroom doors of our bedroom and the kids' bedroom and then close the laundry room door. You can't hear the water and wash cycles, you can only hear the hum when the washing machine goes to a high speed spin. Once you turn the spin cycle to medium or low, you can't here it through two doors. One key is that the laundry room does not share a wall with a bedroom (it is between the stairwell and the hall bathroom) so that the noise is not an issue for us. |
Anonymous
I grew up with 2nd floor laundry... right next to my bedroom... I think that's why I love white noise and sound machines at night 
It is convenient, esp with kids, when you know something is in the dryer, to NOT have to run down two flights of steps to find it. That said, this was not a criteria for me while house hunting as an adult. Nice to have, but I would not give up closet space or bathroom space for it. |
Anonymous
+1, plus I am paranoid about leaks (even though we have a new house). I'd really prefer first floor but that's the way the house came. |
Anonymous
Me, too. Didn't think about it until I had it. Definitely a requirement now. |
Anonymous
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I prefer first floor.
I think the lesson here is to do what you want. It will make some buyers happy, not matter to others, and be a negative for others. |
Anonymous
| My only preference is that it isn't in the basement, don't care otherwise whether on first or second floor. |
Anonymous
| Prefer it on the main level so I can do laundry while watching the kids, doing stuff in the kitchen etc. I don't think I would even fold laundry if it was on the 2nd level. |