Wash and Fold

[Danlaundry]

What is an approximate price to spend on washing machines and dryers for wash and fold. I know it also depends on pricing of machines but lets say someone brings in 30 lb’s of clothes and 20 lbs machines are priced at $1.75 with dryers .25 for 10 minutes.

[azkid]

Huh? What are you trying to figure out?

[Danlaundry]

A customer brings in 30 pounds of clothes and my employee then has to deposit a portion of that money into the machines to wash and fold their clothes. Let’s say the 20 pound machines are priced at 1.75 and dryers at .25 for 10 minutes. Approximately how much money will the attendant have to spend to wash and fold the customers clothes?

[millenniumplus]

30lbs of clothes will not always fit comfortably in one 20lb machine so
you might need two wash machines this size. Dry time will vary from
dryer to dryer (eg.: socks and jeans may require more time) but 30lbs
of clothes may require 30mins (or more) to dry 3X.25 = $.75 & 2x
.175 = $3.50 ; grand total $4.25. *That's based on info you provided*
If you had a larger machines (or other machines) the price would have
been different in regards to wash cost (and water usage). Some how in
your question it seems you are looking for something else? Anyways,
don't under estimate the cost you incur for detergent, bleach, softner
and dry sheets - where applicable. If you don't provide and monitor a
"standard use of products for each wash (& dry time)" employees will
adlib and product use will get out of control and be costly. Employees
use of time can be a factor. If they "sit on it" (WDF) and do not move
each WDF in reasonable time period, WDFs can back up from shift to
shift. You wanna maximize their time and set completion time guidelines
for them to adhere to. So depending on the WDF size we try to complete
WDFs within a four hour period unless they are 50lbs or more.

[azkid]

The attendant will have to put in the same number of quarters a customer would to start the machines and run 30 lb of clothes. I have a question for you - who is buried in Grant's tomb?

If your question is "what is your real cost for WDF" you should ask that. In that case it depends upon your water/sewer costs, the machine used and your gas cost per therm. I would just use a ballpark 50% cost level if your are trying to benchmark something.

[thelaundrydoctor]

Another factor are you seperating for color? If so then mabie the attendt will half to use three, one for whites, one for darks one for light. Rember allways be on the lookout for the never been washed RED garmet. It will bleed!!!

Dry time is going to vairy depenting on your extraction speen of your last rinse. If your washer extracts at 1000 rpm it could cut ithe time by as much as 10 minutes.

[petefritz]

I am going to guess you are trying to leave the attendent money enough to do the job?
Generally it cost 1/2 of the wash amount to dry, so $1.75 to wash, say .75 or $1 to dry.

[Harv]

<font color="blue"> Rember allways be on the lookout for the never been washed RED garmet. It will bleed!!! </font color>

When I first read what you said, it reminded me of how we proved this the hard way at home a number of years ago. One pair of my daughter's brand new bright red socks turned the whole load <font color="pink"> PINK </font color>. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

As I was thinking about this today, though, I was wondering what you would actually do in a wash &amp; fold situation. Assuming you were alert enough to spot the socks and separate them out, then what do you do with them? Run a load consisting of just two socks? Run a red load (assuming there were other red items)? Wash them by hand?

I have so much to learn... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[thelaundrydoctor]

You could certanly wash them by hand, however, what we do is split orders into three loads white (we pre-soak with a rust remover and bleach in the wash) (be carefull again, many white garments like blouses that strech can't be bleached) Then wash them with the light load. Then the red's wash with the darks on cold. If they run they will never know.