ShonTron
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My parents live in a condo built in the 1970s in North York. They have a small laundry room on each floor, each serving 10 units.
I think it really is a matter of water capacity. I live in building downtown built in the early 1980s. The laundry room is on the second floor - six washers, six dryers, with pretty good capacity. It's only a pain when someone takes over 4 or 5 washers and you have to wait, but I've been lucky with timing. We're told we're not allowed to install/use dishwashers because the pipes wouldn't be able to handle it. We also have electric heat - it might have made sense in the 1980s when hydro was dirt cheap (unsustainability so, in retrospect) but it hurts a bit now.
I think it really is a matter of water capacity. I live in building downtown built in the early 1980s. The laundry room is on the second floor - six washers, six dryers, with pretty good capacity. It's only a pain when someone takes over 4 or 5 washers and you have to wait, but I've been lucky with timing. We're told we're not allowed to install/use dishwashers because the pipes wouldn't be able to handle it. We also have electric heat - it might have made sense in the 1980s when hydro was dirt cheap (unsustainability so, in retrospect) but it hurts a bit now.