Monthly Archives: July 2016

Choosing the Right Commercial Laundry Equipment Company

With help from the Internet, there are tons of ways to find laundry equipment businesses. However, that doesn’t mean they’re all reputable. In order to find the right company to best help you in your new venture, there are several questions you should ask before moving into the planning, design and installation stages. Below, you’ll…
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Signs of Bad Laundromat Equipment Installations

While you’d like to think that your equipment was installed properly, if you’re having problems with your washers or dryers, it might not be regular maintenance work. It could, in fact, be a faulty installation. Below, you’ll find several examples of ways improper set up can negatively affect your equipment. If you're ready to buy…
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Where Did the Name Laundromat Come From?

Would you believe that there are more than 30,000 laundromats all over the U.S. to date? Considering this business was founded on the idea that people pay with quarters to use a service, we’d say it’s quite hard to believe. But, you might as well get on board! This more than five billion dollar a…
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The History of Laundromats Part Two

Welcome back! In our last article, we talked about the history of laundromats and how they got their start back in the 1930s. We mentioned that while the vague concept of what we know as a laundromat today was available in the 1950s, the idea didn’t really take off until the mid-1960s. Since then, technology…
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