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Background: Family house built in 1920 with laundry in basement.
Long ago there was a giant octopus furnace and the vents that connected to it into the rooms, it is long gone but one of the vents is still in the bathroom that connects to no where. It goes straight down to the basement. How can i make a laundry shoot from it?
I was thinking to attach duct work down similar to this type (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...9a0a5a934e.jpg) and then make a lid for covering the bathroom floor. Any other better ideas? Hole is 8.5in W x 10in L
Get over the fire codes, K'ledgeBldr. That vent is there anyway. It's literally just a hole in the first floor to the basement. It's not going to be a real laundry shoot from the second floor down to the basement. If she didn't put a trap door to create a shoot, there would be an air vent there anyway. A lot of existing houses have laundry shoots. People weren't made to tear them out.
OP, you don't really need an actual metal shoot. You can just put a door on the hole and call it a laundry shoot.
My parents' laundry shoot just dropped the clothes onto the basement laundry room floor, but my neighbors have a wooden cage built from the ceiling. Some people have big cabinet in the basement like this one below.
Personally, I'd let them fall into a pile on the floor below because that cabinet is just too small of a catch for the amount of clothes that accumulate between washings at my house.
We had one that ended in a wooden box built out of dowels. The box had a latch lid on the bottom, so you placed a laundry cart under the box and unlatched the bottom and the laundry fell into the cart. It was built into a space in the wall not the floor. It really saved having to lug dirty clothes down the stairs. Getting the laundry back upstairs was still a problem.
ETA: looked up Fire Code and Laundry Chute (yay google) and its all sort of confusing since its a hole in the floor but i guess im not building one, just extending the hole in the floor. Ill add a door on the bathroom side and on the basement side.
I could just cover up the hole and be done with it but i just thought this would be a good use of what is there. I realize we would still need to bring up the laundry. ETA: Hopes, thats actually a workbench my great grandfather built not a cabinet.
PS- Chute. Laundry chute noted as correct spelling.
It is never a good idea to "shoot" your laundry but it can be very helpful if one installs a laundry "chute" in their home.
LOL!
My initial thought when seeing the title was -
Give it a gun and a target.
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ETA: Hopes, thats actually a workbench my great grandfather built not a cabinet. 
