Planning the dream house after shocking calculation

No one comes by to read the meters anymore, but technicians do come from time to time to replace them. Nonetheless, we have only visually/spatially separated the equipment from the utility room without a door. It doesn't bother me if laundry is hanging or lying there. Usually, the laundry is pre-sorted in baskets, and the technician doesn’t rummage through them ;) If it works, fine; if not, then so be it. Still, I wouldn’t want to go down to the basement to do laundry anymore. With your space, doing it on the upper floor really makes sense! For us, it will be on the ground floor, since we often hang laundry outside in spring, summer, and late summer and only use the dryer for large items.

Even though this doesn't really belong here... it somehow fits. I am currently thinking about the utility room. We want to build with a basement, but the utility room with the washing machine and dryer definitely won't be down there. Now I'm considering what's better. Ground floor or upper floor? Sure, most of the laundry comes from the upper floor and you probably save a lot of trips up and down the stairs. On the other hand, if I have the utility room on the ground floor, for example, the kids can take off dirty muddy clothes right there, sports bags can be left/unpacked directly on the ground floor and the clothes washed, and exactly, if I want to dry laundry outside, the ground floor would probably be better than the upper floor. What else speaks for/against the utility room on the ground floor or upper floor?

: both have their advantages and disadvantages. We have our washing machine and dryer in a separate room on the ground floor with a door leading to a utility terrace for hanging laundry and such. To make it easier, I’m also getting a laundry chute :-D

For the reasons you mentioned, we have the utility room on the ground floor with direct access outside and a laundry chute from the 2 floors above. We have sports or dirty clothes daily that shouldn’t be carried through half the house, and as mentioned, we hang out a lot. Swimming and sports bags stay in the utility room, waiting for fresh laundry and are taken from there the next time. (Currently still in the basement and therefore inconvenient) Actually, we wanted a shower in the utility room as well, but it had to be sacrificed due to space reasons. But it seems to work like this too.

Well, but even the accommodation of the washing machine and dryer in the basement has its advantages...

On the one hand, I don’t hear anything from the running appliances, and on the other hand, for example, I don’t have the increased humidity or the raised temperature on the living floors.

We now have a heat pump dryer – it doesn’t blow nearly as much heat and moisture into the room as our previous condenser dryer, but we are still happy when the two appliances are in the basement starting in January.

Apart from that, I can also easily hang my laundry in the basement in winter or when it rains, which is quite pointless outdoors.

With this topic, it’s like with many others – personal taste decides...

That someone who has to enter your house for work reasons is interested in your laundry is quite far-fetched. They won’t rub themselves against it or revel in it or make it dirty again. Their interest is to read the meter, repair the device, maintain it, and then quickly go to the next appointment. What do you do with the laundry that is dried outside? Personally, I’m not a fan of those rotary clotheslines because they just spoil the garden and in the new development area, the laundry is really on display, yet you would have to make an opaque fence around your laundry?! ;) By the way, we have our room downstairs with the equipment and a nice kitchenette for all the stuff that the kitchen is too good for, as well as tools. There’s also space for beer for him; for that, we have our laundry room upstairs with a washing machine and dryer. And when the technician comes, he’s allowed to go through the house - we don’t have that many secrets. He even gets a seat at the dining table and coffee :D