Would you buy a house with no room for tumble dryer or dishwasher?

akira181

first world problems lol. I've never owned a dishwasher or tumble drier while growing up, while renting, nor will I in the flat I'm trying to buy and have survived perfectly fine. Now that I think about it, none of my friends have a tumble drier either and only a handful have dishwashers. They're non-essential items. If you said there's no space for an oven or fridge freezer, then that might be a different story.

If you love the place and think you can forgo the convenience offered by modern luxury appliances, then I say go for it. Washing dishes is a chore but hardly a complicated task. Handwashing dishes is also more environmentally friendly and faster. A clothes horse and a little space will replace a tumble drier easily and save tons on power consumption. Bedsheets can be hung over a door or in the communal garden if the weather is good.

PasturesNew

I've never owned/used either of those appliances, so it wouldn't bother me. It DID bother me when I viewed a house last week that had integrated appliances (which I hate by default) that included a dishwasher (there's no room for a tumble drier).

In the main - you are looking at small houses. In the main, small houses do not have all this space. In the main, the house you'd need to be looking at would be of the 3-4 bedroom variety, especially with a utility room.

Kitchens are becoming smaller; utility rooms are disappearing...

Marvel1

bxboards wrote: »

I'm probably a bit old fashioned but neither of those would even occur to me - I use a washing line to dry clothes, or a dehimifier if during a wet spell, and the dishwasher in the house is me!

Sums up myself.

Smodlet

To each, their own, very much so in this instance. Having lived for years with neither (and no washing machine until my teens! Had to waste every Sunday p.m. in the laundrette :eek::() I would never consider going without either of these completely vital appliances.

When we first moved here, the wiring was unsafe, no socket for our electric cooker anyway and only one socket in each room. It was hell on earth. There was plumbing for the washing machine; we had to turn off an appliance to plug another one in until we had the whole place rewired two months later (had to wait for the sparks; good ones are not available at a moment's notice, ime) Washing up by hand for the first time in over a decade caused rows.

A couple of months ago, said DW died, bless it and the internet age! Saturday p.m. every square inch of work surface covered in pots, pans and crocks because it was batch cooking day (had to be, didn't it?) and no DW. I got on the interweb and had arranged for a new one to be delivered and plumbed in the following Monday within the hour. Heaven knows what the delivery guys must have thought but I didn't really care... And you guys can save your comments 'n' all; it was only a couple of days and they were all in to soak.

TD is on a sturdy shelf over the WM in the utility room just off the kitchen so ideal; there is an extractor venty fan thing in there which really helps as I find even condenser dryers emit quite a bit of humidity. It is practically an antique, bless it. 1992, I bought that. Long live the TD!

Before this move, it and the WM, along with the freezer and the :beer: fridge all lived happily together in the integral garage. Gods, I miss that house.

I read somewhere that we spend an average of 3 years washing up by hand. :eek: Imho, life is too darned short.

The End

davidmcn

PasturesNew wrote: »

utility rooms are disappearing...

Are they? I've noticed a tendency, as kitchens become more "open plan" (i.e. shoved into one end of the living room...), for the laundry to be put elsewhere (assuming the property is big enough). Which at least means you only have the smells and noise from cooking to put up with rather than the washing machine as well.

bouicca21

I have a combo washing machine and drier. Hardly ever use the drier except for towels and wouldn't miss it. I don't even have access to a washing line (against the terms of the lease) but clothes dry quickly overnight on an airer.

I would miss the dishwasher though. Any chance you could put the washing machine elsewhere? Shed as someone suggested, under the stairs or in the bathroom? Then put dishwasher where the washing machine is.

zagubov

Another vote for putting washer and dryer upstairs in a spare bedroom or bathroom or cupboard. Washer dryers are for the space-poor but time-rich since many need two drying runs to deal with the clothes from a single wash. You'd be forever tending to the blooming thing!

Using a dishwasher is essential for us; once we got used to it it, giving it up would be like living without leccy.

societys_child

I'm another whos never had either, got room for both if I wanted them.

phoebe1989seb

hazyjo wrote: »

Over our long landing thingy (railing? banister? not sure what I call it!) in winter. Small stuff on clothes horse in bedroom with window open to air it all. House isn't that cold upstairs, and if it's freezing, the heating will be on anyway. I love the smell of washing! In the garden in summer

Same here! We've never had a tumble dryer and this is the eighth property we've owned, some of which were small with little space for additional appliances, some of which were huge and could easily have accommodated one.

We did buy a washer dryer once but hated it so these days just have a standard washing machine and dry outside when possible or in the boiler room on clothes horses when not.

A dishwasher is a different matter. We did survive without one for a few years till a holiday cottage we stayed in opened our eyes to what we were missing, lol! Last house didn't have one and - as we knew it wasn't going to be our long term home - we muddled along without for a couple of years. It's only the two of us these days but it's still something neither of us would want to go without in a home we planned to stay in for the foreseeable future, as our current house is.

That said, running water was a luxury we didn't have on moving in earlier this year - and hand washed clothes/bedding for the first four months - so right now even having a hot tap is a bonus! The new dishwasher is sitting awaiting fitting and for me it can't come too soon

If it was just me in my first home that I wasn't planning on staying in forever I don't think it would be such an issue though.........

Nasqueron

ibizafan wrote: »

. How on earth do you dry sheets and towels let alone everything else inside the house? It takes me back to my childhood and clothes horses around the fire. No thanks!

Come out of the washing machine fairly dry anyway after spin, fold them a bit and put on heated airing unit under cover which airs and dries and keeps the damp smell away