ᐅ Smallest possible window for ventilation in utility room
Created on: 6 Dec 2020 08:25
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MiCasaEsSuCasa
Good morning!
We are making steady progress with the planning. Our utility room will be relatively small (which is fine, it doesn’t need to hold much). However, we plan to install a door leading outside, so that later on we can access the utility room directly from the garage or carport. This way, coats, groceries, and dirty shoes can be left there without carrying everything into the hallway. The problem is that the door can only be placed where there is currently a window. A utility room without a window would be impractical, since the washing machine, dryer, and air-to-water heat pump will be located there. So ventilation is really a must.
Our ideas to solve this problem are the following:
Either install the smallest possible window, or is it possible to have ventilation just for this one room? Which option would be more cost-effective? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Wishing you a nice second Advent!
We are making steady progress with the planning. Our utility room will be relatively small (which is fine, it doesn’t need to hold much). However, we plan to install a door leading outside, so that later on we can access the utility room directly from the garage or carport. This way, coats, groceries, and dirty shoes can be left there without carrying everything into the hallway. The problem is that the door can only be placed where there is currently a window. A utility room without a window would be impractical, since the washing machine, dryer, and air-to-water heat pump will be located there. So ventilation is really a must.
Our ideas to solve this problem are the following:
Either install the smallest possible window, or is it possible to have ventilation just for this one room? Which option would be more cost-effective? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Wishing you a nice second Advent!
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pagoni20206 Dec 2020 11:31A room that is clearly so heavily "used" should definitely HAVE at least a decent-sized window
...just that alone... plus the other things. Either the ventilator runs frequently and/or you have a window. Otherwise, it will start to develop a musty smell eventually...
MiCasaEsSuCasa schrieb:
Washing machine and dryer and the air-to-water heat pump
...just that alone... plus the other things. Either the ventilator runs frequently and/or you have a window. Otherwise, it will start to develop a musty smell eventually...
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MiCasaEsSuCasa6 Dec 2020 21:15Vario123 schrieb:
We had the same "problem" and decided on a "talk door." This means you can tilt the upper part of the door like a window or open it completely—a great feature.
Yes, that would be great! Was it easy for you to find one of these, or did you have to search a long time for a company that supplies and installs them?
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MiCasaEsSuCasa6 Dec 2020 21:24ypg schrieb:
Aside from the fact that there are doors with window panels (the most common being patio doors, which also come with locks), the statements "relatively small" and "leaving groceries and dirty shoes" seem contradictory here.
How should this be interpreted then? The hallway no longer serves its purpose, and instead the utility room has to take the hit, which will already be bursting at the seams on laundry days? Is laundry supposed to be dried in the hallway then? I think you’re imagining a small utility room as a bit too "flexible" 😉 No, no, it actually works out fine haha! Groceries and shoes aren’t meant to be stored there permanently. It’s more about not traipsing all the mess and dirt through the neat hallway after coming back from shopping or a walk in the woods, and then having to clean it every time. Instead, having the door from the utility room creates a sort of secondary entrance, where you can enter the house and temporarily put everything down and take off your things. Once you’re inside and settled, you can calmly carry the groceries into the kitchen and clean and store the dirty shoes in the shoe cabinet. Without turning the entire entrance area into a mess like at the Hempels’ place. 😉
MiCasaEsSuCasa schrieb:
Without the entire entrance area looking like a cluttered mess right away. 😉 What is it there for? To COME HOME. I always find it surprising that an entrance door with about 10sqm (108 sq ft) of hallway space is planned, but people prefer to end up in a utility room of about 8sqm (86 sq ft) when they come inside.
I consider that a design mistake.
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