Laundry Chute

Many of the new 5'ers have this and only use a carpeted board for a lid near the stairs. Some have a lifting stair tread.

Moved from ATC

Our 2003 fiver had this "feature" with a hatch in the floor on the way to the bedroom that opened down to the cargo bay. We have better uses for the cargo bay than that!

At some point I re-floored that area and covered over that hatch so it is long gone, and not missed.

My Cardinal came with one. The opening is in the bathroom sink cabinet floor. There is no cover for the hole other than the cabinet doors. The cloths drop into a net type cloths bag.

Last year, my wife finely got fed up, with stepping over the dirty cloth bag on her side of bed & asked what we could do to solve the problem. Can we build some type of hamper or trap door she asked.
I didnt say anything for a short while & then, YEAH, got an idea what we can do, real serious like.
There is nothing on the walls on either side of our bed, so we can just cut a hole in the wall, make a flush mount door with hinge at the bottom & just tip it in & drop the cloths in. She says. ok lets do that then, thanks sug, then after awhile she says, now if we do that wont the cloth just drop out onto the ground ?.
I said yeah, but at least you wont have to keep stepping over them every time you move around on your side of the bed.
For some reason she's not mentioned that idea again.

I'm still thinking about doing something & the drop into a compartment sounds like a good idea.
Neil

Our Dutchman has a Chute next to the bed which dumps into the "under trailer coffin". It makes it easy to keep the clothes out and off the floor.

It should be easy to do.

C-Leigh Racing wrote:
Last year, my wife finely got fed up, with stepping over the dirty cloth bag on her side of bed & asked what we could do to solve the problem. Can we build some type of hamper or trap door she asked.
I didnt say anything for a short while & then, YEAH, got an idea what we can do, real serious like.
There is nothing on the walls on either side of our bed, so we can just cut a hole in the wall, make a flush mount door with hinge at the bottom & just tip it in & drop the cloths in. She says. ok lets do that then, thanks sug, then after awhile she says, now if we do that wont the cloth just drop out onto the ground ?.
I said yeah, but at least you wont have to keep stepping over them every time you move around on your side of the bed.
For some reason she's not mentioned that idea again.

I'm still thinking about doing something & the drop into a compartment sounds like a good idea.
Neil

Neil, DW says the the easiest solution would be to move the clothes bag to your side of the bed. :B

Our DP had a pull out drawer in the bathroom that acts like a laundry chute but rather than drop the clothes into the basement it contains a laundry bag. When the bag is full I know that it's time for me to had to the laundromat.

Thanks for your inputs.

Tim

My DW just commented that "that's a Man's solution to a Woman's problem - in other words totally useless"

:)

Sorry, her words not mine. Apparently the idea of having to go outside to get the dirty washing only to have to bring it back inside to wash, dry and iron didn't fly with her.

Canadian Rainbirds wrote:

C-Leigh Racing wrote:
Last year, my wife finely got fed up, with stepping over the dirty cloth bag on her side of bed & asked what we could do to solve the problem. Can we build some type of hamper or trap door she asked.
I didnt say anything for a short while & then, YEAH, got an idea what we can do, real serious like.
There is nothing on the walls on either side of our bed, so we can just cut a hole in the wall, make a flush mount door with hinge at the bottom & just tip it in & drop the cloths in. She says. ok lets do that then, thanks sug, then after awhile she says, now if we do that wont the cloth just drop out onto the ground ?.
I said yeah, but at least you wont have to keep stepping over them every time you move around on your side of the bed.
For some reason she's not mentioned that idea again.

I'm still thinking about doing something & the drop into a compartment sounds like a good idea.
Neil

Neil, DW says the the easiest solution would be to move the clothes bag to your side of the bed. :B

Our DP had a pull out drawer in the bathroom that acts like a laundry chute but rather than drop the clothes into the basement it contains a laundry bag. When the bag is full I know that it's time for me to had to the laundromat.

Yes :B now I have done that, put the bag on my side & dont mind doing it at all.
Much as my wife does every day, me doing a little thing like is no problem. Shes blessed me over 36 years, so I dont mind.
Neil