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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This just reminded me that my grandparents had a laundry shute. You could just chuck the dirty laundry down and it landed next to the washing machine. I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that they still had to carry the clean clothes up the stairs. Do people still have laundry chutes?[/quote]

The house I grew up in had one and it was great! They don't put them in houses anymore because they are a fire hazard.[/quote]

This isn't true. The shaft is no more of a fire hazard than any duct work going to other gas or electric appliances. We have a dupont circle home that originally would have had one from the service kitchen in the basement to the butler's pantry on the main floor. There is also a service staircase going between the two. We just redid the main kitchen (which would have been the service kitchen in the staff quarters in the basement) and added a two stop, electric dumbwaiter. It's basically just a mini-elevator. There were all types of options for the cab, but we kept it pretty simple. We got it from a company where that is all they do. They required a ton of measurements, and our GC and electrician installed it. We have it behind kitchen cabinets on both floors, and it comes with electric latches so you can't open the cabinets unless the cab is on that floor, just like a little elevator.[/quote]

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