Utility room

Here we are on 2nd December and I've had a full line of washing out. I love the smell and softness of washing dried outside. I do realise that some people don't have the outside space for that.

I would think if you use cheap electricity at night it’s a possibility of noise from spinning etc.
My machine ding dongs like crazy at the end of a cycle.

I don’t understand all this upstairs/ downstairs talk Most people wash clothes once or at most twice a week it sounds like a lot of you have almost daily ups and down stairs with massive amounts of bedding and towels
Mine is a once a week occurrence and they go outside in the lovely fresh air unless it’s pouring
Like the last few posters I love the fresh feeling of outside dried washing

It seems a good idea and I know a few people,who have the washing machine upstairs.
It's not convenient though if you decide to hang it out in the garden to dry .
Perhaps it's great in the winter .

I also agree about leaking washing machines.
I used to live in flats-
I've had my washing machine leaking into the flat below in two different flats.
I also had water leaking into my flat from upstairs.
It happens .

The worst flood that I've experienced was caused by rats gnawing right through the dishwasher hose and flooding out the downstairs in my father's house .
They came from a house ,which was derelict and dirty and then demolished .
So rat proof your house !

BlueBelle

I don’t understand all this upstairs/ downstairs talk Most people wash clothes once or at most twice a week it sounds like a lot of you have almost daily ups and down stairs with massive amounts of bedding and towels
Mine is a once a week occurrence and they go outside in the lovely fresh air unless it’s pouring
Like the last few posters I love the fresh feeling of outside dried washing

I'm always fascinated by people who say they do washing once a week. Oh I wish. There's only 2 of us but I seem to do washing most days.
Change beds = 1 load
Towels = 2 loads
Light coloured clothes =1 load
Dark colours = 1 load
That's 5 loads and there's nearly always something else.

I manage on 2 loads, 1 whites, 1 coloureds. I change bedlinen in the traditional way with duvet cover and undersheet being changed on alternate weekends and one set of towels a week Bedlinen and towels go in the dark and light loads a appropriate.

I make a real effort to wash clothes and bedding as as little as possible but as much as required. Tthe same with clothes. Clothes and bed linen last longer, you use less water, energy and reduce the amount of chemical detergents used.

About five or six loads weekly here too.
Whites, darks, coloureds, towels x 2 loads, bedding.
I try to do it all on Mondays to get it out of the way.

About five or six loads weekly here too.

I do more washing than that on behalf of my ageing dog, who wets his bed overnight.
Obviously his blankets go in first thing every morning, by themselves 😂

A DD’s house was extended into the loft by the former owner, who turned it into a 4 rather than a 3 bed, two good sized bedrooms in the former loft.
Within the extra space on the first floor, he made a ‘utility’ space with a butler type sink and plumbing for the washing machine.

Dd has been in the house for over 10 years and AFAIK they’ve never had any problem.