Why using a commercial laundry service is advantageous?
One is always faced with the decision as to why and when to use a laundry and dry cleaning service? There are many ideas on this matter and in this write up, the issues involved are discussed to enable one to come to an informed decision on how one handles his/her laundry.
To put things into context, not all commercial laundries are the same. In this paper we are discussing the professional laundry service and not the fly by night laundry service which uses residential equipment with no informed understanding of what the laundry process is, the basic chemistry of stain removal and the major types of fabrics and their characteristics.
- A commercial laundry services can bring many benefits to your personal laundry needs as well as to your business requirements.
The laundry process involves sorting of the clothes, loading the clothes in turn into the washer at the correct settings, transferring the washed clothes into the dryer, ironing or finishing the clothes, folding, and packing of the clothes. Without the understanding of the process, each stage can be done incorrectly leading to a poor outcome. With many fabrics on the market, it can become a challenge understanding what the many requirements are.
A commercial laundry can therefore make your laundry process more efficient and productivity by ensuring that these processes are done appropriately to give you a consistent outcome.
- A commercial laundry can save you money!
The most important thing a commercial laundry provides to you is time savings. If one can cost what the value of an hour is to him / her or to one’s business, one can estimate what the cost of an average two to three hours used to do one’s laundry and iron the clothes. Beside time, a commercial laundry can save you the cost of expensive commercial washing, drying, and ironing machines together with the cost of generating steam for finishing clothes, maintenance of these machines and the chemicals used in the laundry process. Added together, a commercial laundry can save you significant capital costs. Yes, a good commercial laundry does saves you money.
- Provides a consistent and better outcome
Understanding of fabrics and the process of stain removal is a basic requirement of any professional laundry and dry cleaning business. Together with how to best finish items, you are assured of a consistent outcome no matter the state of your items unless they are permanently damaged. A good commercial laundry service will give you this confidence at the end of each laundry activity it undertakes.
- Finding technically trained staff
It can be difficult to find well trained laundry hands and for many commercial laundries, time and effort would have gone into training of their senior technicians which make it difficult to find good people outside. A commercial laundry brings you the advantage of well-trained staff to process your laundry. This advantage can be worth a lot and be the difference between a good laundry outcome and not.
- Regulations
There are various regulations on the effluents from a laundry. These may need specialised handling and regulatory oversight. A commercial laundry can save you from all the paperwork involved and the need to ensure that these chemicals are handled correctly. Beside the chemicals, other certifications maybe required such as fire, factory inspectorate and those from the local authority. It can be a nightmare meeting all the specifications from these regulators
Having outlined some of the advantages of using a commercial laundry, the following maybe considered as reasons not to use a commercial laundry.
- Turnaround time
If the time one needs to have laundered items back can not be met by your commercial laundry service, there is not much reason to use one. Laundry is a service and so if your service requirements cannot be met then one should not be obliged to use it.
- Cost
Sometimes the cost of a laundry / dry cleaning is unaffordable, and time is not a constraint. In that case, one should try and do the laundry themselves and only send selected items to the laundry.
Commercial laundry services now offer many options which meet different price points. The most specialised of all the options which also is the most expensive is the dry cleaning option. This involves use of very specialised machines and chemicals to clean your clothes.
The next option from a price point of view is the laundry service. And the lowest price option is the wash, dry and fold option where items are washed and simply wrapped nicely for your finishing or ironing.
Use of commercial laundry service can be very advantageous and more so when laundries offer pickup and delivery service to their laundry services. This adds to the convenience of having your items picked at your doorstep and returned after cleaning.
Smile Laundry is a commercial dry cleaning and laundry service in Accra. We offer pickup and delivery service. Register online at or simply complete the form on the page and we will reach out to you to pick your clothes. We assure you of a friendly service.
You can also call us on 0208232788 and we be there to serve your laundry needs.
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