laundry chute

moldy_sea

Perhaps daydreaming but I'm considering incorporating a laundry chute in my design.

The chute would be between master bedroom and utility room. The pitched roof of the utility room starts about 0.5 m above the floor level of the bedroom floor. The chute would be 1m or less in length.

Any thoughts on what would be involved any issues?

Baybay

Aside from child safety features at either end, a king size duvet should be able to easily slide through the chute with room for storage for it & associated bed linens etc in the receptacle below.

Muahahaha

Is there any planning restrictions against them in Ireland? Or fire regs?

Could see how they might be dangerous for children. That said if used right Id say they'd love it !

magnethead

No fire regulations covering laundry shoots, but some of the company's have fireproof stainless steel doors. (Have a good think about it for your own protection - smoke is what kills, so you'll want it to be sealed very well when closed)

Irish crowd here
http://www.newstar.ie/laundry-chute-systems/

UK crowd, do a nice PVC option, which could be good, if you firewalled it off

www.easylinelaundrychutes.co.uk

another one
www.inventivehomes.co.uk

you can pay up to €800 for these things, if you want to go stainless all the way down,. I eventually spoke to a builder with good common sense, who built one, and only installed a Door, then he just framed out a box for the chute and it works perfectly.

I'm just getting the door myself, I was lucky enough for some big groundworks to be in progress across the road from work, so I asked one of the guys for some 300mm wavin pipe, they gave me a 2M length which is all I need

I'm looking forward to jamming it in my wall before the pour, it was hard enough sticking in 150mm pipes

DOCARCH

Baybay wrote: »

Aside from child safety features at either end....

I put a laundry chute in a house a couple of years ago, at clients request.

I was speaking with client a couple of years later about it/how it worked out. All good, for a while, but they abandoned use of it/closed it up after a child, visiting/on a playdate, got stuck in the chute! :eek: No harm done but child safety issues do need to be considered!

Addle

I think it’d be a lot more practical to put your utility room upstairs.

moldy_sea

Addle wrote: »

I think it’d be a lot more practical to put your utility room upstairs.

that's what we're doing now

Yellow_Fern

magnethead wrote: »

No fire regulations covering laundry shoots, but some of the company's have fireproof stainless steel doors. (Have a good think about it for your own protection - smoke is what kills, so you'll want it to be sealed very well when closed)

Irish crowd here
http://www.newstar.ie/laundry-chute-systems/

UK crowd, do a nice PVC option, which could be good, if you firewalled it off

www.easylinelaundrychutes.co.uk

another one
www.inventivehomes.co.uk

you can pay up to €800 for these things, if you want to go stainless all the way down,. I eventually spoke to a builder with good common sense, who built one, and only installed a Door, then he just framed out a box for the chute and it works perfectly.

I'm just getting the door myself, I was lucky enough for some big groundworks to be in progress across the road from work, so I asked one of the guys for some 300mm wavin pipe, they gave me a 2M length which is all I need

I'm looking forward to jamming it in my wall before the pour, it was hard enough sticking in 150mm pipes

Isnt the risk no more than leaving an internal door open?