at what price point is basement laundry no longer acceptable?
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Anonymous
Washers flood because the hose connections are stressed every time they turn on. Washer hoses fail...how many people replace their supply lines every 3-4 years? Or install a special washer shutoff? It's not the washer that fails, it's those lines, and no pan is going to catch the runoff from a 1/2 inch line running full blast. |
Anonymous
| We looked at a home this summer that had laudry upstairs and it heated up the whole floor in a home where the AC already was weaker upstairs. Also, I would worry about the flood issue. We also looked at a home that had the expanded mud room with the nicest laundry room I have ever seen -- had storage, nice folding table and was roomy and did not take away from any thing else. I loved it. We didn't buy that house but it was the standard for all laundry rooms from there on. |
Anonymous
I have never had this issue, sounds like a problem with a leaking dryer exhaust. |
Anonymous
| At that price point, it's way unacceptable. I just turned against 2 homes with basement laundries at half that price. |
Anonymous
Nope. We redid our house into our dream home and I refused to have the laundry anywhere but the basement even though the architect pushed us to consider it upstairs. I don't like the sound of it running, we often wash loads overnight, and I didn't want to worry about flooding. Plus going up and down the stairs with a basket of clothes is a form of exercise. I try to get as much "natural" workout every day as I can, like parking at the outer edges of a parking lot so I have to walk longer to the store, or walking up and down escalators. |
Anonymous
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Folks, have a plumber install metal hoses and a simply shut-off valve that just requires moving a level for your washing machine. I had a washing machine hose break once and it was not a pretty site. The washing machine was in an unfinished basement when the hoses broke, but the water in those hoses is under pressure and it shot out like a geyser and soaked everything I was storing in the basement. Fortunately I was at home when it happened (I was on the first floor and it sounded like a geyser had gone off in the basement) and fortunately there was a very nice guy doing some construction on the house across the street who came over and helped me shut off the water. No pan under the washing machine is going to prevent damage from a broken pressurized hose.
In my current house the washer is on the first floor (mud room). I installed metal houses and an easy shut off and I shut the water off after using the washing machine each time. All I have to do is flip a level. Regardless of what floor the machine is on, I never want to see a broken washing machine hose again. |
Anonymous
Agree! I think of the laundry room as a "working room" not a "living room" and I like having it in the basement. Our house is worth about $1.4 M. |
Anonymous
| We just bought a house with 2nd floor laundry. We immediately had the W/D moved to the basement. We just put wood floors in upstairs and didn't want to move the things after they were put it and more importantly didn't want to risk the inevitably leak down over our dining room. A friend has laundry upstairs and says there is more dust/lint due to I guess folding laundry upstairs. We are thrilled with our decision because we gained an awesome linen closet upstairs. A buyer may not want laundry upstairs adn may do what we did, so don't put money into doing that. If they want it, they can do it. |
Anonymous
| I like 2nd floor laundries but that would never be a deal breaker if I otherwise liked the house - and it would never be the one thing that sways me to buy a house either. Don't sweat it - do what do you like. |
Anonymous
| Just buy the braided hoses. The people with the flooding fears probably had bad hoses and didn't check them. You know you are supposed to change rubber ones every 2 years and braided steel every 5 (although they can last a lifetime at least of the machine). Surprised no one put their dishwasher or refrigerator on the basement with the same fears... |
Anonymous
| Is everyone afraid of toilets upstairs too? They have the same connections... |
Anonymous
No, they don't. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Not sure what your picture is trying to prove, but the actual toilet fill is a 1/8 inch line, versus 1/2 inch for the washer. And a washer fills at full pressure, cycling on and off at full open or close. No other household plumbing fixture does this. That is why the hoses (and the valves) fail, and why no plumber would ever have a laundry room above finished space in their own home. |
Anonymous
Only a crappy plumber that doesn't trust his own work. |