Building new house - Decontanimation zone!!

cjpm

Folks,

Planning on building a house on the farm. My lovely wife suggested an area for showering and changing when I finish in the evening might be a good idea.

Leave all workwear there along with wellies. Any of ye do anything similar??

Garage will have to be detached so not the best plan.... Don't fancy showering in a cold garage before sprinting across the garden in my boxers! :eek:

Ideas welcome:cool:

Nekarsulm

Putting in a power shower a good idea. If you have an older washing machine and dryer plumb them in as well, then the mucky gear doesn't have to enter the house at all.

Also, you will never have the nightmare scenario of running her frillies through an 80 degree hot wash with your jeans and hoodies, and having them come out dyed blue and only fitting a barbie doll....

Wildsurfer

We have a separate boot and laundry room beside back door of house. Space there to leave all boots wellies etc and a cupboard to hang up overalls and coats. Change into my house shoes there. It's also where washing machine/drier is so any dirty clothes can be left there. There's a radiator rail in there to dry wet clothes etc too. Left room to put in a shower but unless I need it for staff down the line I won't bother, as you say a bit cold to be changing there.

dzer2

Our heating system is housed in the garage so we leave all farm gear out there not finished yet but when it is there will be a shower room and washing/drying room.

J.O. Farmer

Wasn't there something like that on Room to improve a couple of years back. Some young farmer was getting married and they redesigned the house so there was a shower inside the back door.

blue5000

Have a fairly big utility room inside the back door here approx 14x12 ft with shower wash basin and toilet. Also has freezer, fridge, washing machine and dryer in there too. Put in a power shower while you're at it, pump at the immersion, not individual electric showers.

Another thing we did was a separate sewer system for the washing machine and dishwasher. If I was building new these days I'd incorporate rain water harvesting for bathrooms.

Who2

Is it a reality that people will use it. Is it one of those things that sound great but don't really work that well. An extra expense when most people are stretched to their limits for something that might be only used a few times a year. An extra set of clothes sitting there , I know personally if I'm going farming I get out of bed put on my farm clothes go down have the breakfast and head off out. Are you going to have fresh clothes set in two rooms the whole time or are people a lot more organised. A small heated room with a good heat source, an extractor and a couple of shelves is more than adequate IMO.

Pkiernan

cjpm wrote: »

Folks,

Planning on building a house on the farm. My lovely wife suggested an area for showering and changing when I finish in the evening might be a good idea.

Leave all workwear there along with wellies. Any of ye do anything similar??

Garage will have to be detached so not the best plan.... Don't fancy showering in a cold garage before sprinting across the garden in my boxers! :eek:

Ideas welcome:cool:

Oversized wet room at ground level with radiator and towel dryer.

Bullocks

Who2 wrote: »

Is it a reality that people will use it. Is it one of those things that sound great but don't really work that well. An extra expense when most people are stretched to their limits for something that might be only used a few times a year. An extra set of clothes sitting there , I know personally if I'm going farming I get out of bed put on my farm clothes go down have the breakfast and head off out. Are you going to have fresh clothes set in two rooms the whole time or are people a lot more organised. A small heated room with a good heat source, an extractor and a couple of shelves is more than adequate IMO.

We put in a wet room inside the back door of our first house and TBH I didnt use it that much because we had a nicer shower in the bedroom .
In all reality I dont think there is a big need unless you are a clean nut
Except for wellies and an ould jacket how dirty would your clothes get these days ?
As you said Who2 I wouldnt be changing going through the house in the morning Id be too cold and lazy

What I have in the plans for the new house is a garage attached to the house for a bit of solid fuel storage , somewhere to take off the jacket and wellies and most of all park the jeep so when I'm stirring out at night for checking out cows calving I wont get wet getting from jeep to house

happywithlife

Who2 wrote: »

Is it a reality that people will use it. Is it one of those things that sound great but don't really work that well. An extra expense when most people are stretched to their limits for something that might be only used a few times a year. An extra set of clothes sitting there , I know personally if I'm going farming I get out of bed put on my farm clothes go down have the breakfast and head off out. Are you going to have fresh clothes set in two rooms the whole time or are people a lot more organised. A small heated room with a good heat source, an extractor and a couple of shelves is more than adequate IMO.

Not farming but country living and hubbie works in a dirty job - we have back door opening into utility and the downstairs bathroom is off that - made it nice and big while building so there's a power shower in there too- ok not used as much as perhaps we *ahem I* intended but the few times we have used the shower it has been invaluable! My only regret is we didn't plan the storage a little better with proper space for boots. As it is they're just fecked into a press

kollegeknight

The Americans call it a mud room, there are examples on Pinterest. We would have loved to put one in our house but we were trying to watch house size etc.

When I put up shed (have to build house first) I'll put in a farm office and mud room.

sea12

kollegeknight wrote: »

The Americans call it a mud room, there are examples on Pinterest. We would have loved to put one in our house but we were trying to watch house size etc.

When I put up shed (have to build house first) I'll put in a farm office and mud room.

We are designing house at the moment and out in the plans. Architect has it down on the plans as mud room.
Great in theory but not sure how much it will be used but better have it than be looking to put it in after

kollegeknight

sea12 wrote: »

We are designing house at the moment and out in the plans. Architect has it down on the plans as mud room.
Great in theory but not sure how much it will be used but better have it than be looking to put it in after

It was on room to improve the most recent season. The room had a separate entrance to the utility room.

charolais0153

I only really get the smell of clothes , would a bit of a closet not suffice with a few shelves and a radiator and if your that bad you can go to the bathroom for a shower. Youd swear ye were rolling in silage or gutter

larthehar

If you dress appropriately for the job your doing with overalls or waterproofs i don't see a need. We have an outhouse for wellies, overalls, jackets and gloves..

Only twice did i need a decontamination zone, once due to a long stick propping open the gate valve on a blocked tanker and the other was a bust oil pipe!

A heat source to dry out things is handy.. we have the oil burner in the same house..

_Brian

I use overalls or water proof pull-ups and I find the clothes under are clean and fresh - unless a major problem.

Inside back door the skullery has hooks over radiator and boots/wellies stay under beside radiator. Back toilet opens off that and houses washing machine too so that area is clean up central.

While I don't see the need for a shower down at the back door ours is plumbed for it as it was a requirement to have disabled access toilet and shower. I just installed the washing machine and tumbledryer where the shower should be.

Bass Reeves

I am not sure if you need a shower/wet room. However I would consider a small changing room insider the back door to change in and to put farming clothes in a cubboard or locker. You could also use it for shoes etc maybe incorporate it into a room with washing machine dryer etc. Most houses have a plenty of showers etc. Rather than spending money on an extra shower/wet room I would put in solar tubes/panel on roof. Over spect the amount of tubes. We put in Tubes about 5 years ago, nephew speced it I was told by a plummer that I was putting in too many tubes. All the rest of the project was fixed cost (pumps, tank etc) so extra tubes and famer were the only added cost. We have plenty hot water from Mid March to late September. From October to March you will have the oil running to some extent anyway so hot water all year around.

Timmaay

Only time I need a proper decontamination is if a cow gets me square on the head in the parlour! Usually go straight for the plate cooler hosepipe then ha, plenty of nice warm water.