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[cynic51]

My house has a really tiny laundry chute. It's perhaps four inches deep and a foot wide.It's sufficiently tiny that I only drop white laundry (e.g. socks and underwear) down it, and then only one at a time.

Unsurprisingly, things occasionally get stuck in it. Originally I'd clear the chute by throwing down a bottle of Tick Shampoo, but after many

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[aiela]

We have the same kind of laundry chute, but I find if I just keep shoving things in it, whatever clogged it will eventually clear. But then, I don't exactly have expensive clothes I'm worried about. :P I have had to use a stick to push things through occasionally.

Laundry chutes are no longer considered safe by fire code, I believe, which is why modern houses don't have them. Nothing like having a nice metal chute to transfer fire from floor to floor, I guess.

[cynic51]

The entrance at the top isn't wide enough to put a stick down, so I hook from the bottom. However, the exercise bar flexes so it be fit in, and it's heavy to boot; I wish I'd though of it years ago.

Laundry chutes are kind of ridiculous, when you think about it. Is it really that much effort to carry them down stairs? Especially back in the 1920s when my house was built, when you were quite possibly still washing them by hand anyway?

[harvey_rrit]

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