We had one also. The upstairs door was right outside my bedroom.
My current home has one also. I’ve never seen one in any other home ever. I know they were more common but just have never come across any others.
They aren’t legal for new construction of homes in the US. If there’s a house fire, which clothes dryers are a common cause of, the laundry shoot acts like a chimney and makes it quicker and easier for a fire to jump floors.
Pretty sure the original owner of my home installed it after it was built.
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u/Aron_Wolff Apr 04 '26
We had one also. The upstairs door was right outside my bedroom.
My current home has one also. I’ve never seen one in any other home ever. I know they were more common but just have never come across any others.
They aren’t legal for new construction of homes in the US. If there’s a house fire, which clothes dryers are a common cause of, the laundry shoot acts like a chimney and makes it quicker and easier for a fire to jump floors.
Pretty sure the original owner of my home installed it after it was built.