Browse Forums Laundry 1 Jun 16, 2011 9:23 pm Im building currently and have our house at the halfway bricked up stage, and now i can see how the rooms are looking sizewise Im thinking I have room for a shelf in my laundry to fold clothing on. I dont want to block the free flowing feeling to the back door though, I dont want a tight fit laundry now i have space so when discussing this with a friend she suggested putting up a bench that I could fold up. I went to bunnings and the lady there showed me some benches that would do and are around the $120 mark upward, but she suggested folding it downward with hinges and then when its up you have bolts on each end and bolt it up to keep it up. Then drop it down when you dont need it. I can get the bench in preordered sizes too if these dont suit our laundry size. But she said when its up its somewhere you can keep your laundry baskets under too. I have a lot of laundry with a large family so would prefer doing the folding in there than my messy habit of bringing the laundry into the lounge or bedroom and not getting straight to it. This way I can fold it immediately and either put them in piles to be collected or put them away etc. What are others benches/shelf like and what is your experience with this. Is this a good idea or would it put too much strain on the laundry wall as the benches looked fairly heavy. Laundry bench idea, want feedback on idea. 2Jun 16, 2011 9:38 pm What are the dimensions of your laundry? I personally wouldn't like to try to hinge a long bench onto a standard plaster wall. If it was a brick wall it may have more strength but personally I still wouldn't do it. Not sure whether you have felt the weight in a 2-3 metre benchtop but they are pretty heavy. My laundry is approx 2.5m wide so I have a 4m long stretch of underbench cupboards with a waterfall benchtop - great for folding up on and sorting out clothes. If your walls are up maybe mark 600mm out on the floor to see if there is enough room? 600 is a standard depth of cupboards. Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Laundry bench idea, want feedback on idea. 3Jun 16, 2011 11:23 pm It is heavy isn't it. I will measure it out and see how much room this leaves and just make a solid bench perhaps. Re: Laundry bench idea, want feedback on idea. 4Jun 17, 2011 9:12 am OUr laundry width would be similiar to your I think and we have a bench installed-great space underneath it too-the overhaed cupboards are 300mm deep and the bench itself is 600mm. Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Laundry bench idea, want feedback on idea. 5Jun 17, 2011 9:46 am I hope those dimensions work for us too. It will be so wonderful having a bench in the laundry. I would be wary. Is you site demilished but nothing else done? Sounds like liquidity problems to me. Our builder did the same. Got hundreds of thousands of dollars of… 2 15391 Sounds like rubbish to me. Ask for the contamination report which I doubt they have. If it's part of a normal subdivision it would have had a contamination report done… 9 5645 Agreed. I just found out today the certifier has not given the final sign off. 2 4088 |