What is this? Building permit '55

[Geatki]

Hello,
I would like to ask the expertise on this forum about a few things I don't know what they are.
It's about the details inside the laundry room - what is connected in the chimney, the "clotheslines," the square under them and the rectangle with three lines in it.

If this is the wrong forum section, please correct me.

Best regards, G

 

[NoOne2k]

Did you forget the picture?

Edit: now the picture has appeared. What does it look like in the laundry room today?

 

[Kallebo]

I see the image. What goes to the chimney is exhaust air; when there was a fire, it created good natural draft. I don't know anything about the clotheslines (could it not be clotheslines?) nor the square with lines in it; could it be a hatch?

 

[13th Marine]

What is connected to the chimney is ventilation.
And there happens to be a centrifuge underneath.

The dashed line, I would guess, is a bench with lines over it and a classic laundry room sink with a slanted and ribbed front.

 

[Geatki]

I can add that it is a coarse cast iron pipe that goes out from the laundry room at knee height (now hidden behind a weekly supply of pellets). Inside the laundry room, it is cut off and sealed. Currently sitting and feeding the children but will provide additional pictures shortly.

 

[Lutte]

Can also be a flue for a wood-fired water heater

 

[13th Marine]

Ah, there are two channels to what I thought was a centrifuge.

And now @Lutte got in between with what it should be.

 

[saiter]

The round thing that sits by the chimney is perhaps a pannmur?

//AA

 

[fahlis]

The round thing by the chimney is probably an (old-fashioned) wood-fired washing cauldron.

 

[Fotografen]

Yep, the round gadget in the laundry room is an old-fashioned wood-fired wash boiler.

 

[justusandersson]

A floor plan is essentially a horizontal section through the rooms somewhere at eye level. Solid lines represent things that are at a lower level, dashed lines represent things that are higher up or generally invisible. It can also be a placeholder for something that is not currently there. I believe the solid lines closest to the window represent a washing bench made of boards with an inset washing tub. What the dashed figure represents is hard to know without having been on site. It could be something hanging from the ceiling. It could also be a chute for dirty laundry.

The laundry room in my parents' house, also built in 1955, contained an electric boiling pot, a sturdy stainless-steel laundry sink, and an electric centrifuge. People today probably find it hard to understand how primitive it actually was back then, even though it wasn't that long ago.