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Laundromat

kaydee50 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:17:49 GMT

We live in a condo that has a laundry room although our unit has a washer and dryer which was a must before we purchased it. Once a year I take my quilt to the building's laundry room to wash it in their big washer and dryer.

Last year the cost for the wash was $3.00 and the dryer was 25 cents for 8 minutes.

Just did my blanket today. Cost of wash was $5.25 and the same for the dryer!!!!

I was astounded. Has anyone that takes their laundry to a laundromat seen big prices increases? More than ever I'm glad I insisted on my own w/d!!!!

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Snowpuppy — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:23:27 GMT

$5? Seriously?

Try the professional laundry/dry cleaners. Last time I took a cotton King comforter in to be laundered it was $32.

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kittyloo — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:24:36 GMT

i think you got off easy. when i go to the laundromat to wash our winter comforter, the xl washer is $6, and 25 to dry for i think about 8 minutes. been that much for awhile

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Maestra1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:26:34 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
We live in a condo that has a laundry room although our unit has a washer and dryer which was a must before we purchased it. Once a year I take my quilt to the building's laundry room to wash it in their big washer and dryer.

Last year the cost for the wash was $3.00 and the dryer was 25 cents for 8 minutes.

Just did my blanket today. Cost of wash was $5.25 and the same for the dryer!!!!

I was astounded. Has anyone that takes their laundry to a laundromat seen big prices increases? More than ever I'm glad I insisted on my own w/d!!!!

you got off cheap, be glad that's all it was.

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Mz iMac — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:32:40 GMT

The laundromat in your building & your neighborhood laundromat are 2 different things - like apple & oranges.

The vendor of your building laundromat controls the cost of the washing & drying.

The owner of neighborhood laundromats controls the cost of the washing & drying as well as the vendor of the machines. Each state and/or city is different - varying laws.

In South Jersey/Camden Co.

Apts/Condo laundromats: Wash & Dry = $1.25-$2.00 ea (dryers last 1 hr).

Neighborhood laundromats - Prices are the same as above.

The machines that handle large items like throw rugs, blanket, comforters, etc cost a little more - $5 wash - $3 dry/hr

In my building each floor has a HUGE machine that will handle comforters, etc at a cost of $4 to wash. Our dryers are huge, so we only pay $1.25 for larger items.

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kaydee50 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:32:47 GMT

@Maestra1 @kittyloo @Snowpuppy I guess I was just stunned that it increased so much in one year. Thanks for reassuring me that I am getting a "bargain."

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Peaches McPhee — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:53:28 GMT

Yes. I, too, took my large comforter to the laundromat to use a large size washer. $6.25! Glad I brought lots of quarters . . . this particular place stil uses coins. That is 25 quarters!

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Another new name Sue — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:10:49 GMT

Recent price check to have a king size bedspread laundered, $39.

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deeva — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:32:10 GMT

My cousin who goes to the laundromat weekly told me that the large washers that were $6 are now $10.

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Peaches McPhee — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:42:13 GMT

@Another new name Sue wrote:
Recent price check to have a king size bedspread laundered, $39.

Was that the price for someone else to do it, or did you do it yourself at a laundromat?

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Bird mama — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:04:54 GMT

I went to the local laundromat yesterday to wash my comforter in one of those 3 load capacity speedqueens. I don't like to crowd my comforter into my own washer, I always worry that it won't wash and rinse thoroughly. I paid $4.25 which is the same rate as it's been for over a year. Boy, would I love to have one of those speedqueens in my basement.

Edited to add - I only used their washer. I dried it at home.

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LyndaGee — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:09:32 GMT

I, too, use the laundromat for the big quilts - We have cats who sometimes have fur balls. The price is still $2.75 for wash and $.50 to use the dryers. Free soap, too, but I use laundry sheets.

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SilleeMee — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:20:52 GMT

The laundromat nearest me doesn't have machines which use coins. They only take bills and that goes for the dryers, too. Large washers cost $8 and dryer cost $1 for 30 minutes I think.

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Etoile308 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:55:00 GMT

I took a comforter out of storage last year and brought it to the laundromat. Knew I was in for a shock when I saw the machines had converted to taking bills. This year I washed it in my laundry room wash tub, rinsed, rinsed, rinsed then left it drip for half a day before I put it in the dryer.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:19:59 GMT

We don't have in unit washer/dryers in our condo complex and I wish we did. There are several onsite laundry rooms here and when we moved here, that seemed fine with me. And then my knees went and it's not ok with me, even though the laundry room is across the courtyard and big and spacious. I send my laundry out to be professionally done. Hubby does his laundry early Saturday morning. They did put new energy efficient machines in and they went up in price. $3 for the washer and I think hubby said the dryer is $3 too. Hubby complains that his he spends $12 a week for his two loads of laundry. He gets no sympathy from me. I pay lot more for my clothes and the sheets and the towels. It is....what it is.

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Snoopp — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:11:50 GMT

Large commercial washers run about $8 and dryers are about $4 to dry a comforter in my area.

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Georgiagrama — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:59:06 GMT

@Snoopp wrote:
Large commercial washers run about $8 and dryers are about $4 to dry a comforter in my area.

@Snoopp Yep. Me too. There is one man who owns the only laundrymat in our area. He charges whatever he wants and it now costs me time and $12 to wash and dry one queen Bates bedspread. He may have gone up since April. 😒

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Pearlee — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:18:07 GMT

@kaydee50. No, to the contrary. The laundromat where I go occasionally for things like that reduced all its prices when the pandemic started, to help out the customers. I had expected it to go back to it's normal prices by now but it hasn't. The owner is a nice guy.

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Maestra1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:42:09 GMT

@kaydee50 I used to have to use a local laundromat. Keeping clean can get pretty $$ at times.

You are unfortunately at their mercy.

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Lucky Charm — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 14:08:10 GMT

I used to take my king sized comforter to a laundrymat and wash it using one of those HUGE washers. Very expensive....

because I'd run it first on hot with bleach-- EMPTY.

Just wanted to disinfect it as best I could because you never know what someone else had washed in it before. (filthy bath mats, dog beds, etc.)

I'd literally stand there for most of the 40 mins. to make sure no one could/would use it before I'd then do just my bed skirt. Felt like I was giving the washer a second good cleaning...lol.

Lastly would be my comforter, which I would take home and hang out in the sun.

I think it cost seven bucks a load. So $21, technically, to do just my comforter as my bedskirt could be done at home in my washer.

It drove the woman who worked in the dry cleaning area crazy, she'd always say that I could do the bedskirt in with the comforter, too. And I'm sure she rolled her eyes as she watched the first load with nothing in it...lol.

But I'd see her pulling big beautiful comforters out of a dry cleaning machine of some kind, then she'd drag them across the dust bunny floor and fold them on a counter that everyone put their laundry baskets and bottles of detergent on. Wonder how much that cost customers--thinking their bed linens were really getting cleaned?

The machines at this place had credit card machines hooked up to them as a method of payment.

Don't do the laundymat anymore. I used much lighter blankets that I can wash weekly.