Fewer and fewer people are building basements under their houses.
Many prefer a separate utility room on the upper floor, where laundry is done – this room is usually limited to just a few square meters.
Most have to make do with a technical room of about 6 sqm (approximately 65 sq ft) – the typical size offered by most house builders – where there is barely enough space for one or two shelves plus a washing machine. The rest of the house is also tightly planned.
How do you manage your laundry drying? Especially in households with children, I think you really have to juggle things, right?
Many prefer a separate utility room on the upper floor, where laundry is done – this room is usually limited to just a few square meters.
Most have to make do with a technical room of about 6 sqm (approximately 65 sq ft) – the typical size offered by most house builders – where there is barely enough space for one or two shelves plus a washing machine. The rest of the house is also tightly planned.
How do you manage your laundry drying? Especially in households with children, I think you really have to juggle things, right?
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Peanuts7415 Dec 2016 07:21Bieber0815 schrieb:
I’ll admit it: We dry our laundry on the drying rack in the living room. When we have guests, we don’t, or in a pinch, we use the drying rack in the office (a temporary solution due to limited space). Recently, also on the terrace.
Future plan: In the garden (which is still unused). But I think in winter we’ll dry laundry indoors more often… it does get cold on the hands. And regularly drying outside will only be possible once the laundry area is covered (final stage, 2017?).
We don’t own a dryer, although we have space for one. It just hasn’t been a priority so far.Get one—you’ll soon find you can’t live without it, just like a dishwasher!
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Bieber081515 Dec 2016 08:04Peanuts74 schrieb:
Dishwasher I admit: we got one relatively late as well. But there are still a few other things ahead on our wish list before a dryer (including a lawn mower :P).
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Peanuts7415 Dec 2016 08:59Bieber0815 schrieb:
I admit: It also came into our lives relatively late. But there are still a few other things on the wish list before a dryer (including a lawn mower).Just "kidnap" a sheep somewhere
...we have now reduced our electricity consumption for water heating by 1,300 kWh by switching to district heating instead of the previous electric instantaneous water heater (21 kW, electronically controlled, Stiebel Eltron).
An additional appliance is our new heat pump dryer in the laundry room.
I cannot yet assess the cost of the hot water from district heating, as the annual bill is still pending.
But the electricity measurement period of one year has passed.
In our three apartments, we previously used around 3,700 kWh, now only 2,400 kWh consumption in the new apartment (25 m² (270 sq ft) more living space). Despite the new dryer that we bought for the first time!
The rest of the laundry is air-dried in the laundry room.
So, we no longer feel guilty about drying with a heat pump dryer...
Oh, and there are two of us living here, and about six shirts go through the wash each week.
An additional appliance is our new heat pump dryer in the laundry room.
I cannot yet assess the cost of the hot water from district heating, as the annual bill is still pending.
But the electricity measurement period of one year has passed.
In our three apartments, we previously used around 3,700 kWh, now only 2,400 kWh consumption in the new apartment (25 m² (270 sq ft) more living space). Despite the new dryer that we bought for the first time!
The rest of the laundry is air-dried in the laundry room.
So, we no longer feel guilty about drying with a heat pump dryer...
Oh, and there are two of us living here, and about six shirts go through the wash each week.
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