Utility room woes...
Hi, just realised that a) the pitch of the room starts just above the door to the utility extension (weirdly low compared to rest of building) so b) where the clothes maidens are marked to hang they actually can't (due to pitch of ceiling; architect's error which is disappointing). They would therefore have to stick out into the middle of the room which would be annoying - and also can't be hung very high due to low ceiling height (rest of house has quite high ceilings) - which is again annoying...
... any ideas to combat this? Can I just ask the builders to raise the roof a bit?! Or make the pitch of the roof less so the ceiling could be higher? Not sure why the architect has done what he's done.
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last yearIt’s mad to go to the extra expense of taking the roof just so you can hang the sheets just there. It’s a big space so you can easily change the layout, hang your sheets in the tallest part of the room and put lie things like your washer in parts of the room with a lower ceiling .
I offer one option but there are many ways this could be done
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