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PLANNING EXTENSION BULLETIN 320 MAY 1947 l EXTENSION SERVICE INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES THE STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON PULLMAN, WASHIN.GTON / PLANNING EXTENSION BULLETIN 320 MAY 1947 ~~ HELEN NOYES Extension Economist in Home Management ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PRE PA RED ~~ ESTHER POND SMITH Formerly Extension Economist in Home Management EXTENSION SERVICE INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES THE STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON PULLMAN, WASHINGTON it help you with those countless big and little jobs which have to be done. A utility room is a service room located preferably on the first floor of the house near The size of the utility room and the amount the kitchen and the rear entrance. This loca of storage space needed is determined by the amount and kind of work to be done there. If tion makes it easily accessible from inside or a back porch, a bedroom, or part of a large outside the house. It provides a place for kitchen is being remodeled into a utility room, laundry work. All washing equipment, includ the uses of the room will be limited by the ing an indoor clothesline, can be incorporated amount of space available. into this room. It provides a place for men to wash, and for such jobs as sorting eggs, clean The utility room is a workroom and not a ing vegetables, cutting meat, and arranging back entrance to the house. A small rear hall flowers. If so desired, space can be set aside that leads to the kitchen, the utility room, and for a well-planned sewing room. The hot the basement makes a good entrance. water tank and furnace may be placed in the To plan a utility room, first make a list of the utility room. work to be done there. Then list the equipment A utility room should be designed to save and materials needed for those jobs. The list you hours of labor. Plan it carefully, and let may be something like this: Jobs Equipment to Be Used Materials Needed Men wash. Lavatory or sink, mirror. Soap. towels, combs. Shine shoes. Shoe-shining board, polishing cloth or Shoe polishes. brushes. Arrange flowers. Table or counter, flower bowls and holders, Water. scissors, knife. Clean vegetables. Counter, scissors, knife, peeler, brushes, Water, newspapers. garbage can. Wrap packages. Scissors, pencil, pen. Paper, cord, labels, ink, pen. Cut out garments. Counter, scissors, pins, tape measure. Patterns, materials. Sew. Counter, sewing machine, chair, lap table, Thread, trimmings, materials, sewing closet, scissors, pins, thimble, mir snaps, etc. ror, wastebasket. Sort clothes. Clothes chute or hamper, sorting table. Soiled clothes, stain-removal kit. Wash clothes. Washing machine, laundry tubs, clothes Water softener, soap, bleach, basket, cart. water. Starch clothes. Pans, hot plate, table. Starch, water. Hang clothes to dry. Electric drier or indoor clotheslines. Clothespins. Sprinkle clothes. Sprinkling table, sprinkler, clothes basket. Vv arm water. Iron. Electric iron, ironer, ironing board, racks for Pressing pads and cloths, hanging clothes. sponge, water. Page Three and drains need to be installed in every home as soon as the budget permits. Even without such con veniences, washday can be made Tubs easier, if a little thought is given to the convenient arrangement of Electric Drying the laundry equipment. r-:::1 Cabinet r 1__=_j A floor drain, a drain pump on your washing machine, or a hose G to siphon water out of tubs are - ---<> all devices that reduce fatigue in Adjustable Wide washing. - Ironing Boord 10- XII's" - - - - -- - < --~~·~~~~~- --- Stand Erect While Working Hamper Here Stooping is tiring work. One if No Chute third of the energy needed for hanging up clothes can be saved by having the clothes basket at your waist height instead of on the floor or ground. For sorting Fig. 1.-A floor plan for a laundry room with an electric drying cabinet. clothes use a table instead of the floor. If your washing machine is too low, raise it with blocks of wood under the legs. Or better yet, buy a machine that is ad justable in height. Washing clothes is one of the most tiring Boxes, stools, backless chairs fitted with jobs the homemaker has to do. Too often the casters, or benches may be used to hold tubs equipment for the job is inade quate, the space for doing the I work is too small, and it is diffi I I I I I cult to get enough hot water to I I I I I . I do a good job. 'Adjustable :24" Hamper: Wide I l I I Research studies of washing 1 Ironing : l-c_r---c.; J 1 Board 1 operations in homes show that 1,20"X60" / much fatigue is caused by lack of \ I \1 I /-¢- organization of the work, unnec I I \ ,' ,, essary . stooping and stretching, \ / ,_..... -, ... , and the lifting and carrying of 8 heavy loads. " Automatic Automatic Use Good Equipment " \ Washer Dryer Piped hot and cold water, and \ ,I' electric power are two of the B s Soaps greatest helps in making wash day easier. An electric pump and water heater and stationary tubs Fig. 2.-A floor plan for a laundry room with an automatic electric washer and drier. Page Four and clothes baskets at a height to prevent should empty on the sorting counter. In a one stooping. A laundry cart (see p. 8), a coaster story house with a utility room on the main wagon, or a frame set on the wheels of a baby floor or in an old house where a clothes chute carriage will carry your wet clothes to the line. cannot be installed easily, a large, ventilated Space Allowances pull-out drawer on rollers will serve as a Enough space must be allowed around equip hamper for soiled clothes. The section of the ment for you to be able to work freely. The counter top over the hamper may be hinged so that it can be. lifted up when clothes are put in or taken out for washing. ~ LENGTH OF TUBS --+j Space must also be allowed in the laundry room to dry clothes and to iron. (See pages 6 T-=----,.-------=---~-=--=- -=--=--=-----=--=---------=- to 9.) 2i 6" 1u=~~~~~:p-= --~~~~----~~0 v Placing the Equipment The order in which laundry work is done with a nonautomatic washing machine is: sort Fig. 3.-The soap and stain-removal cabinet above the tubs. ing clothes, removing stains, soaking clothes, washing them in the machine, rinsing them, minimum space allowance for passageways and placing them in the basket, and hanging them for space between large pieces of equipment is on lines or placing them in a drier. Equipmen~ 30 inches (the width of the av- I erage door). At each end of the J . 0 t I laundry tubs, 18 to 24 inches of -----,-----,.----.--.-----r--r---r--' Kitchen open space are needed. There should be enough Basement space near the washing ma chine for a table or counter 2 ,_ - feet wide for sorting dirty ----s clothes. The length of this Coots table will vary according to the 24" X 30" ~-~·\\ . size of the family wash. Many ,\ families need a table from 6 to I " 8 feet long. This may also be Portable Ironing Boord I used for sprinkling clothes, 15" Wide Supplie~ I 2 . wrapping packages, sorting 1 11 1 I 9 6 X 12 \ s~r': .eggs, and arranging .flowers. / \ [12"~n1s" 1- It needs to be 36 to 38 inche:; / Hot Plate from the floor. ¢--/ ·/ A small sink may be placed Drying {QJ Rock ~t8 · Washer near one end of the counter. In ~ Cupboo•d it, men may wash; it also pro r----~--. €) vides a convenient water sup ply for removing stains, mak ing starch, and sprinkling DB~Hompe•[ ___(l , clothes. A hot plate for use in making starch is placed on this counter. The clothes chute Fig. 4.-A pla,p for a, laundry room with drying lines. Page Five when they cannot be dried out of ~ · ~ ' ~ • doors. Built-in clotheslines may be used for this purpose, or an electric clothes drier installed.1 The space required for racks or driers and their location in the E ~ ~~ ~ laundry room are shown in Fig ~ - ~~ ures 1, 2, and 4. ~~ ~" ~~ A good arrangement for indoor """ , ....... ~)I. '"~...,. ..l. lines is to put 1 ~-inch harness .ll. ' ""t rings about 3 inches apart on the ' opposite ends of a rectangle made of ~-inch pipe. Fasten the pipe to the wall or ceiling in a hori F ig. 5.-A rectangle of %.-inch pipe fastened to the ceiling m akes a drying rack. zon tal position (see Figures 5 W ires are attached to harness rings placed 3 inches a part. and 14) ; and fasten clothesline wire to rings opposite each other. should be placed so that you can proceed from If there are open joists, as in a basement, a one task to another in this order with only a drying rack of wood and pipe may be made. step or two from one place to the ne~ct. For each corner of the rack, nail a 2 x 4 at right In a laundry room with an automatic wash angles to a joist and brace it, as shown in ing machine, the order in which the work is Figure 6. Bore a hole in the lower end of each done is: sorting clothes, removing stains, plac 2 x 4 and slip a length of pipe, with the required ing clothes in the machine, placing them in a number of harness rings on it, through each basket, and hanging them on lines or putting pair of opposite holes. Use a nut or cotter pin them into the drier.