The apartment building where we bought a flat is currently under construction.
The current plan includes a laundry room in the basement where each apartment has a designated space for its own washer and dryer. However, in our unit, additional connections for a washer and dryer were planned inside the storage room, as we preferred to have the machines within the apartment. The electrician—who also seems to be on the advisory board of the local housing cooperative—warned us strongly against placing washers in the small storage room, mainly due to concerns about humidity and the risk of mold.
The storage room has rough dimensions of about 1.5 m x 1.55 m (5 feet x 5 feet 1 inch), which is approximately 2.33 square meters (25 square feet). There will be a ventilation fan installed, but he still views it as problematic because technical equipment is also located there (the apartment’s network cabling is routed through that room, and the electrical panel is also located there).
Our question now is: How serious is the humidity issue likely to be? And if washers really shouldn’t be placed in the storage room, could it be practical to install one in the bathroom? We wouldn’t need a stacked washer and dryer setup but would rather consider a washer-dryer combo unit that combines both functions into one machine.
This is the current bathroom layout:
And here is an idea we had for placing the washer in the bathroom. Our question is whether this would "work" or if it’s not advisable:
It should be noted that the dimensions of the red walls around the shower would remain the same as in the current plan (1.52 m instead of 1.42 m (5 feet vs. 4 feet 8 inches) and 45 cm instead of 55 cm (18 inches vs. 22 inches)); the red walls shown here are just an old version. Also, the bathtub would hopefully be reversed so that you look into the room rather than at a wall.
We would also shorten the half-wall in front of the sink to about 1.5 m (5 feet) long and would avoid building a half-wall in front of the washer if possible. The water connections for the washing machine would come out sideways from the half-wall, allowing the machine to be pushed further back.
The current plan includes a laundry room in the basement where each apartment has a designated space for its own washer and dryer. However, in our unit, additional connections for a washer and dryer were planned inside the storage room, as we preferred to have the machines within the apartment. The electrician—who also seems to be on the advisory board of the local housing cooperative—warned us strongly against placing washers in the small storage room, mainly due to concerns about humidity and the risk of mold.
The storage room has rough dimensions of about 1.5 m x 1.55 m (5 feet x 5 feet 1 inch), which is approximately 2.33 square meters (25 square feet). There will be a ventilation fan installed, but he still views it as problematic because technical equipment is also located there (the apartment’s network cabling is routed through that room, and the electrical panel is also located there).
Our question now is: How serious is the humidity issue likely to be? And if washers really shouldn’t be placed in the storage room, could it be practical to install one in the bathroom? We wouldn’t need a stacked washer and dryer setup but would rather consider a washer-dryer combo unit that combines both functions into one machine.
This is the current bathroom layout:
And here is an idea we had for placing the washer in the bathroom. Our question is whether this would "work" or if it’s not advisable:
It should be noted that the dimensions of the red walls around the shower would remain the same as in the current plan (1.52 m instead of 1.42 m (5 feet vs. 4 feet 8 inches) and 45 cm instead of 55 cm (18 inches vs. 22 inches)); the red walls shown here are just an old version. Also, the bathtub would hopefully be reversed so that you look into the room rather than at a wall.
We would also shorten the half-wall in front of the sink to about 1.5 m (5 feet) long and would avoid building a half-wall in front of the washer if possible. The water connections for the washing machine would come out sideways from the half-wall, allowing the machine to be pushed further back.
In my opinion, neither a modern washing machine nor a heat pump dryer produce significant amounts of moisture. In our old apartment, we had a washing machine and dryer in a fairly small closet for over three years. I never felt that it caused any particular increase in humidity.
Place it in the closet. A laundry room feels quite 1970s.
Place it in the closet. A laundry room feels quite 1970s.
apokolok schrieb:
Put it in the storage room. The laundry room is quite 1970s. The storage room or bathroom, definitely not the laundry room (the additional note from the original poster came in the green forum): the basement is purely a space for machines with no clotheslines. This means the whole setup only works with "everything in the dryer"; carrying wet laundry through the stairwell isn’t even “1970s” :-(
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I would prefer that as well... but what would be the more practical solution? Arranging the bathroom as shown in picture 2 in my original post, or keeping it in the storage room and leaving the bathroom as in picture 1? Or are there other ideas regarding bathroom layout with a washing machine?
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