Laundry Chute in a Victorian Terrance Post Reply

[LaundryChute]

Friend has a very large house in Streatham with a laundry chute and I've got chute envy.

It runs from top to bottom of the house and dumps the clothes into the basement right next to their machines.

Has anyone else done this and my real question is do you need a big house to make it work? Could it be done in a standard London terrace?

[OLBC Group]

May I suggest a slightly different direction of thought?

Why is your Landry in the basement which is as far removed from the source of the bed linen as possible?

….Unless you all sleep in the basement? I’d understand as it is quiet and temperate!

Joking apart a washing machine dryer stack doesn’t take up a lot of space on a large(ish) house. With condensing driers there is no need for the old 4” duct to the outside world.

So if you fit a stack upstairs, I’m luck I can, then it will be a lot less bother to get power, cold water and 1 1/2” waste into position than to cut and carve a laundry chute through a house.

BTW if you do the chute properly it would need to be fire proofed where it goes through each fire compartment - likely ceiling - which gets very hard to do properly.

Maybe worth a thought? It saves carting all the clean linen back upstairs fighting with gravity!

[LaundryChute]

Thank you, I'll have a think about this, didn't really think about the fire safety issues.