No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.
How to reinforce floor for laundry.
Even structurally sound code compliant new floors can deflect or flex more than feels comfortable.
Generally speaking if your floor is supporting its current use a laundry area and isn t otherwise rotting or in disrepair structurally there is no reason why it needs to be reinforced.
Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros.
Not sure how much stock we should take in this assessment but it was one of the reasons we were exploring the reinforce the floor option.
Tim brennan may 9 16 at 3 00.
After several centuries of service floor joists in older homes may sag or crack.
Long spans of joists in newer homes may wobble or bounce from foot traffic.
That is because the drum rotates much faster than a regular washing machine during the spin cycle.
There are a variety of ways to stiffen a floor.
How to make floor joists stronger.
Tom s house was built in 1765 but bouncy floors aren t just an old house problem.
Our floor bows under the washing machine so once it goes into the spin cycle the force almost causes the machine to hop.