ah r u from the states?

usually such will laundry program will be more appropriate integrate with washroom or next to it.

Not the states, but lived a few years in London. Most of the houses/flat place their washers integrated under the kitchen counter. They have only one kitchen and not many have separate laundry room. I've never seen one in the washroom yet....

This post has been edited by maxxon: May 1 2014, 03:29 AM

cos London per area is expensive and small, thus their order dont see that laundry usually come with bathroom. but down under, there is also such in certain houses, not all. generally they integrate it better with washroom.

just a view.

now ur first dwell to try with such in tropics

Eg here.

http://www.archdaily.com/501033/northcote-...dge-architects/

see the floor plan where the relation of bathroom is next to laundry

This post has been edited by KVReninem: May 1 2014, 03:54 AM

As you can see, my space available here is nothing bigger than the Uk's. I really don't need a separate room just to put that single washer, do I??

Haha.... I'm definitely not the first one, it's such a common thing everywhere including the states...
Thanks for your reminder, but don't worry for me, my past experience tells me that it gonna works perfectly fine.

Thank you so much. As my bathroom is kinda small in size with no shower screen, i will get my contractor to do the similar as your 2nd bathroom. With the tiles divider to joint to the laminated flooring with the flat profile stripes. Really a great sharing in your thread here and i believe it definitely helps me in my upcoming renovation works.

In canada, they also put washer and dryer together although houses there are quite big with basements. But then I have not stepped into a flat/apartment there either so I can't assess. But in London, ya it is expensive and the area sizes in apartments are tiny. Think of a walk up building with or without lifts, it can be the size of either 1LDK or 2LDK equivalent in Japan now that I think about it.

However, chinese food in chinatown overseas generally sucks and not worth it.

I haven't been to Canada so no idea bout there... I lived in a 2 and half storey terrace in London, visited many other houses with various sizes and setup....all with washer under the kitchen counter... Ppl just don't bother to make a laundry room while all houses actually have real massive back yard for grass and plants.... I haven't been to a bangalow to see the difference though...

Talking about food, of all places outside the HK, there are actually best Chinese food in London and Vancouver (this one I haven't been to). Reason being these 2 places live the most ppl from HK... I find the food there are at par with in Hong Kong provided that you know which restaurant to go. I can't find better roasted duck there... However, the food that I craved most when I was there were nasi lemak, roti canai, curry mee, teh tarik, etc.

Ok, let's come back to Malaysia...many places that I've seen included my mum's, placed the top-loading washer very near the kitchen as well. Most of them that I've seen put it in the wet kitchen. Talking about the actual distance from the stove, there are no difference with mine except that mine is under the counter top but many of others' are 'parked' at a corner against the wall.

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 3 2014, 07:33 AM

You are welcome..
If you haven't done the bathroom door, pls take note of the gap underneath especially when you are using a swing door.

That is true. Singapore flats have this kind of placement where the washing machine is placed at a corner, near the sink. I think its due to the pipe outlet.

For me, I have a separate laundry area where I will place my washing machine and hang my laundry. The original kitchen area was really small without space for a washing machine. So I extended not only the kitchen area, I also extended to 'enclose' the existing toilet structure. So that part of the extension has a small rectangular space on the left side of the toilet structure for laundry. Right side is the extended kitchen area.

For bungalows, semi-d houses in malaysia, there is a maid or utility room near to the backyard for the wash machine and laundry puposes which is convenient I suppose.

I placed my washer near sink for the ease of water in/outlet as well...
Many link houses like mine were fully extended but that's not for me. I'm going to dry my clothes under the sun at the back yard. That's part of the reason I didn't fully extend the back of the house, the other reason being that I want to reserve a nice view from the window of downstairs' room. I'm reserving that room for other purposes in future.

Haha...ofcoz i have been to bungalows of my relatives' and friends' in Msia... What I meant was bangalow in uk...
If i have the luxury of space at the backyard or have a bungalow in future , i would have put it away too at the back yard.....but still not gonna make a separate room for it though. Well, I don't see the necessary, based on my personal living lifestyle. I just load and unload clothes for washing. That's it. Nothing much that I will do on laundry. I don't spend much time and attention in doing laundry.... I'm not sure about others.

This post has been edited by maxxon: May 1 2014, 02:24 PM

We never know what a bungalow in Uk will look like inside.

At least your backyard looks good with an unobstructed view. My backyard is facing the backyard of the opposite house so no view to look out.

Just came back from visiting my new place and sigh... More problems came up, the floor drain pipe upstairs and downstairs clogged. The big pipe (connects to upstairs) in common toilet downstairs is leaking. I'm not too pleased because we just did plaster ceiling in the house everywhere. the workers definitely don't take good care when doing works, the debris from breaking tiles, bricks etc all end up there.

Btw, I saw before you bought a fanco fan and alpha fan? How are they working? Do both fans use fan hook?

This post has been edited by S'aimer: May 1 2014, 04:57 PM

Renovation is necessary in today's life. If you do not renovate your home interiors or exteriors then you loose elegance of your house. It has become a status symbol to equipped home with latest technology and trends.

Err... Unobstructed view is what I'm after...that's why I've actually been struggled whether to stay in condo or landed... Chosen the latter for the convenience of parking, loading and unloading stuff from car...

Same here, had issues with manhole pipe clogged, minor leakage, plumbing miss-planning, etc... Hang in there bro, it will all worthwhile your hardwork and sleepless nights when it's all done.

The alpha fan actually performs better than fanco's as the latter is slightly shaky when it turns on to top speed. Fanco fan just need normal "U" shape fan hook while Alpha's need an additional support on top of the ceiling as it uses U bracket.

Latest technology and trends need lots of moolah bro...
Most important is to get things and designs to suit our very own living style.

This post has been edited by maxxon: May 2 2014, 02:13 AM

The alpha fan can be fixed to the plaster ceiling or not? Well I am having a headache looking at the costs even more. I think going to burst budget by another 5-10% more

I think all fans requires the hook to be plugged into the concrete ceiling and hung down through your plaster ceiling...
Plaster ceilings are very weak...u can even punch through with your fist...never ever recommended to hand your ceiling fan unless u wana see real life Fruit Ninja

If not mistaken, normal fan hook can just be installed on the metal support structure which hold the plaster ceiling board. (You may want to double check with the plaster ceiling guy or electrician on this). For the Alpha fan, it's not using normal fan hook but it comes with a big U bracket. Just show your electrician and plaster ceiling guy the bracket, they know what is the support structure to be installed, of course to be hidden and covered by plaster board.

hhmm..the metal support I've seen for plaster ceiling is just an aluminium strip screwed (using a 2 inch screw) into the concrete ceiling...and the plaster boards are supported with alot of these aluminium strips...
I doubt it will be able to support the fan...especially those shaking ones...hehehe

Or there are new methods I do not know of....

I checked with my husband who is very sure that the fan hook is just installs on the metal structure, but the area with fan will be enhanced with stronger support structure compared to other area without a ceiling fan. You got to tell your contractor in advance if you have heavy pendant light or chandelier, they got to add strength to the inner metal structure as well. My contractor did that for one of my pendant light.

This post has been edited by maxxon: May 2 2014, 02:32 PM

Ah...thats good to know it can be done with stronger support in advance

Thanks for sharing the info!