Hello everyone, my name is Markus, I’m new here ;-)
My wife and I are currently planning a single-family house, and we’re stuck on a small detail in the design. Maybe someone here can help us!
We are building without a basement, so the utility room (with an internal air-to-water heat pump) will be on the ground floor.
Since we also want to have a home office on the ground floor located on the sunny side, the basic layout of the rooms is basically decided: the living/dining area faces the garden to the southwest, the office is in the southern corner of the house, and the utility room is in the “dark” northern corner. Sorry that the floor plan is not oriented to north. For reference: the front door is northeast. And please ignore the windows, they are just placeholders.
We now have two options for arranging the utility room and the guest bathroom on the floor plan:
Option 1: Utility room followed by guest bathroom followed by living room
Advantage: the guest bathroom acts as a sound buffer between the living area and the utility room
Disadvantage: you might hear noise from the bathroom directly in the living area...
Option 2: Bathroom adjacent to the utility room:
Advantage: the bathroom is nicely separated from the “living area”
Disadvantage: the utility room is now directly adjacent to the living area.
My question: Does anyone have experience with a utility room that shares a wall directly with the living room? Should I expect disturbing noise, or am I overestimating the noise level generated by the heat pump?
My personal favorite is definitely option 2, especially since the access to the utility room leads straight through the hallway, which is a big advantage when carrying bulky items in or out. For this reason, option 1 also includes an exterior door to the utility room – otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to get the heat pump in or out in one piece if needed ;-)
If anyone has a completely different suggestion, I’m open to that as well!
Thanks in advance and have a great afternoon,
Markus
My wife and I are currently planning a single-family house, and we’re stuck on a small detail in the design. Maybe someone here can help us!
We are building without a basement, so the utility room (with an internal air-to-water heat pump) will be on the ground floor.
Since we also want to have a home office on the ground floor located on the sunny side, the basic layout of the rooms is basically decided: the living/dining area faces the garden to the southwest, the office is in the southern corner of the house, and the utility room is in the “dark” northern corner. Sorry that the floor plan is not oriented to north. For reference: the front door is northeast. And please ignore the windows, they are just placeholders.
We now have two options for arranging the utility room and the guest bathroom on the floor plan:
Option 1: Utility room followed by guest bathroom followed by living room
Advantage: the guest bathroom acts as a sound buffer between the living area and the utility room
Disadvantage: you might hear noise from the bathroom directly in the living area...
Option 2: Bathroom adjacent to the utility room:
Advantage: the bathroom is nicely separated from the “living area”
Disadvantage: the utility room is now directly adjacent to the living area.
My question: Does anyone have experience with a utility room that shares a wall directly with the living room? Should I expect disturbing noise, or am I overestimating the noise level generated by the heat pump?
My personal favorite is definitely option 2, especially since the access to the utility room leads straight through the hallway, which is a big advantage when carrying bulky items in or out. For this reason, option 1 also includes an exterior door to the utility room – otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to get the heat pump in or out in one piece if needed ;-)
If anyone has a completely different suggestion, I’m open to that as well!
Thanks in advance and have a great afternoon,
Markus
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11ant schrieb:
In contrast, when building a private home, I assume the goal is to create a well-planned living situation rather than an improvised one. Well, to me, it has nothing to do with improvisation... neither the bathroom on the ground floor nor necessarily a children's room in the basement (for that, I had the garden outside the window ;-) ...sloped lot).