ᐅ Laundry chute – Hygiene? How to keep it clean

What is supposed to happen there? Are you all afraid that something will grow and crawl out? I mean, everything that comes into contact with the pipe ends up in the washing machine by definition anyway....

Yes, I don’t understand the concerns either.

It should be obvious not to throw any contaminated materials in there.

Unfortunately, the world is not foolproof. But efforts are being made, as there is nothing else to do.

opalau schrieb:

How much laundry do you actually hang up? For us, 90% goes straight into the dryer. Done.

Same here, then on the clothesline afterwards. Or do you run the 4-hour super dry cycle and then fold everything right away and put it in the closet?

We always do an hour to remove lint and soften the clothes, then hang them up.

fragg schrieb:

With us, it’s the same—after that, onto the clothesline. Or do you run the 4-hour super dry cycle and then fold and put everything straight into the closet?

We always do an hour to remove lint and soften the clothes, then hang them up.

4:15h and then straight into the closet.

ludwig88sta schrieb:

Somehow, I find it hard to believe that such a laundry chute wouldn’t eventually become a breeding ground for bacteria...

So I’d probably prefer to carry the laundry basket down instead of just up (there’s no way you could call it dragging). Going down is easier anyway.

How often do you disinfect your laundry baskets? You’re carrying the dirty laundry down in them. Then the basket goes into the clean room, gets pressure-washed, treated with disinfectant, and then the clean sterile laundry goes in? Or do you perhaps put the clean laundry in the same basket as the dirty laundry?

The dirty laundry goes down the chute. Even if some kind of germs personally live in there, I don’t care. There’s a lid at the top and the basement at the bottom.