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]]>When you’re wading through reviews and case studies and considering the cost of installing or upgrading laundry equipment, other factors can seem minor or less important. Unfortunately, those factors can often be the things that have the biggest impact later on.
If you consider the following factors when first choosing commercial laundry equipment, you may be able to avoid unexpected negative effects on your business later on.
Repair Costs
Probably the most common unexpected issue for commercial laundry operations is repairs, which can cost you both in money and time. While you certainly can’t predict when your machines will break or what the cost and downtime will be, you can invest in laundry equipment that comes with a quality service plan.
Here are a few questions to ask your equipment or service provider:
If the plan isn’t all-inclusive or the provider can’t promise you won’t experience extended downtime, repairs may be more costly to your business than they need to be.
Energy and Utility Usage
People will tell you that all machines these days are energy-efficient, and while it’s true that laundry equipment as a whole has come a long way in becoming more environmentally friendly, utility usage and cost can still vary significantly depending on your choice of machine.
Choosing even the most highly-rated water-based commercial laundry machine can leave you with 80% higher utility cost than is necessary. By choosing a machine that doesn’t use water as the primary cleaning medium, you not only save on water utilities, but energy costs as well.
The Hydrofinity system uses polymer beads to replace most of the water in each wash cycle, saving up to 80% of water usage and up to 50% of energy usage. That’s the kind of difference in that can have a big impact on not only your operating costs, but your business overall.
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]]>Look at the Hilton LA/Universal City Hotel. By upgrading to Hydrofinity near-waterless laundry machines, the hotel is saving over $66,000 per year in water, energy, detergent, and maintenance costs—all factors that contribute to high operational costs for hotels.
How the Hilton LA Saved by Upgrading
Laundry is often overlooked or combined with other line items when it comes to a hotel’s operating costs, which makes it more difficult to truly understand what a laundry operation’s costs are and how to manage them.
In order to get a picture of how the Hilton LA could save so much by upgrading their laundry machines, let’s look at a much smaller example of savings in hotel laundry: asking guests to reuse towels.
The American Hotel and Lodging Association estimates that asking guests to reuse towels reduces the number of loads of laundry washed and the costs of doing so by 17%. The Association for Linen Management says hotels can save up to $6.50 per occupied room per day by implementing this type of program, and today, most hotels have.
For a 495-room hotel like the Hilton LA, operating at an occupancy rate of 65%, that equals a savings of $2,091 per day. Just from reusing towels and linens!
The Hydrofinity machine uses up to 80% less water and up to 50% less energy than traditional washing machines. With the purchase of three brand new machines, the Hilton LA still saw a return on investment within a single year.
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