ᐅ What are your thoughts on a laundry chute?

We also didn’t add extra insulation for our utility room upstairs. Yes, you can hear the spinning now and then, especially in our case: often the door stays open, plus everything is open due to the gallery, and the utility room is located right by the stairs.

But I don’t really understand the issue. Is no noise allowed on the upper floor, and if so, why not, while it’s okay on the ground floor?

Harri123 schrieb:
It's quite an expensive matter; you have to consider whether you really need it

Compared to a new build, the 2 to 5 meters (7 to 16 feet) of DN250 or DN300 PVC sewer pipe and three clamps are almost negligible.
Without children in the house, it's "nice to have"; with several toddlers, it's a "must have."

I see a problem with a laundry chute: you never really know when it’s time to do the laundry. With a laundry basket, you can immediately see how much laundry there is and when it’s time to wash.

World-e schrieb:
I see a problem with a laundry chute that you don’t really know when it’s time,

Place a scale at the bottom, and when a defined weight is exceeded, a light at the top turns on, with a cable running through the chute.

I would always describe it as a nice-to-have. Otherwise, everyone living in apartments with laundry rooms in the basement would have to suffer a lot.

Musketier schrieb:
When we moved, we put one of those mats under the washing machine right away.
You can hear it slightly when the door is closed, but it’s not disturbing. Our child sleeps next door even while the washing machine is running.

This might be a bit off-topic, but the installer advised us against using such a mat back then because new machines don’t need them anymore.

His argument was that the rubber mat can slightly give way, which causes the washing machine to vibrate more than if it were standing directly on a solid floor. If you can hear it standing firmly on the floor, it means it’s not properly leveled.