"Owain" wrote in message
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Everybody buys houses with the "utility room" off the kitchen, so all the
clothes and linens get carried down from the bedrooms upstairs, washed and
dried, then carried back upstairs again. The house with an upstairs
laundry-room or even a laundry chute is a rarity, even though with modern
washing machines putting the laundry room next to rooms little-used during
the day would not be a noise issue....

I've turned my third bedroom into a utility room, but a lot of people do
their washing at night, to use off-peak electricity for heating the water,
so noise would be an issue for them.

Colin Bignell