Speed Queen.....pay for it once. No bricks are harmed.The reason is because washers and driers are bloody heavy and even on ground floor I can hear my neighbours both sides sounding like they have bricks spinning in them.
Having it next to bedrooms is a silly idea, particually if you have cheap elec at night and do the washing then.
Smaller houses with typical 2 storey ground-floor plus first-floor are, in English building regs terms 'one fire zone'. Hence open stairwells and lack of firedoors. Taller buildings have tighter requirements - hence the extra work involving fire barriers included with loft conversions.hi
so with massive amount of hassle i have made a laundry shoot for the Mrs.
Do i need fire door for the ceiling and on the wall?
i have been having a look around any suggestions would appriciated. for hatches/doors
cheers
Implausible.....Learnt some new engrish wurds today....Smaller houses with typical 2 storey ground-floor plus first-floor are, in English building regs terms 'one fire zone'. Hence open stairwells and lack of firedoors. Taller buildings have tighter requirements - hence the extra work involving fire barriers included with loft conversions.
Other countries have different regs (different for Scots?).
But fire doors on a laundry chute could still be a good plan given the incendiary nature of modern machinery, and the possibility that it might be in use overnight.
Suggestions that modern UK houses might be suffiently big, robust and soundproof to cope with a washing machine running on an upstairs floor adjacent to bedrooms are implausible.
Well of course not for the soiled masses living in shoeboxes.....The McMansions are the ones with proper laundry rooms, sound insulation, etc.Not so sure its so implausible in the US either - rented apartment I had in Fort Worth sent my a letter from the development office that the neighbour underneath was complaining about the sound of my foot steps . . . I was, and still am, considerably under US average weight so I would have assumed my stocking feet were hitting the carpet rather lighter than most . .