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Greening Your Laundry
Making energy-efficient equipment choices and performing routine maintenance will improve a laundry’s profitability and drive down gas, water and electrical costs. However, the key to improved profitability lies in making cost-effective “green” changes that improve energy-efficiency and customer convenience, while simultaneously offering a solid return on investment and positioning your store as an environmentally conscious partner of the community.
Upgrading Your Equipment
As environmentally conscious customers are emerging and rising utility costs are sapping profits at vended laundries across North America, laundry owners are replacing less efficient hard-mount washers with freestanding, high-speed Continental washer-extractors.
When upgrading their equipment with Continental washers, storeowners are:
- reporting a savings in their utilities of up to 35 percent
- offering customers a 60 minute wash and dry
- improving customer turnover and retention
- becoming more environmentally friendly
- drastically boosting profits
Choose High-Speed Washers
By choosing high-speed, freestanding washers, which reach far greater extract speeds (up to 381 G-force) than traditional hard-mount washers (70-90 G-force), laundries will cut gas consumption significantly (up to 50 percent per load) and simultaneously simplify installation.
Ensure Washers are Highly Programmable
When you choose your washers, ensure they are highly programmable for additional savings in water and electricity. It is best to choose washers with a control that allows the owner to customize extract speed, mechanical action, multi-level pricing, time-of-day pricing, wash temperature by degree, water levels, number of baths, and wash and rinse time by minute.
Replace Toploaders with Frontloading High-Speed Washers
Topload washers guzzle water and energy and limit capacity, income and the gross profit potential of your store per square foot. By
replacing a store's toploaders with high-speed, frontload washer-extractors stores will save 18-20 gallons of water per load. So, if a laundry replaces 10
toploaders that turn three times per day each, it can save up to 600 gallons of water per day!
See your store's possible savings with our free online energy analysis.
Preventative Maintenance
Consistent maintenance according to a regimented schedule is the key to the safe and efficient operation of every piece of equipment at a self-service laundry—from water heaters, washers and air conditioning/heating systems, to dryers. Ensure that you follow manufacturer’s recommendations found in the back of almost every installation manual for regular preventative maintenance.
T-8 Lighting
Lighting systems are responsible for 35 percent of the electricity costs in typical commercial buildings, according to Alliant Energy of Wisconsin. Thus, we can assume lighting consumes a lot of electricity in a coin laundry, where a bright, clean and safe environment is critical.
Energy-efficient T-8 fluorescent lamps with electronic ballasts are the norm for new fixtures and can easily replace older T-12 lighting with a simple-to-install conversion kit. The kits cost around $20 per lamp, and energy savings from the conversion offer a return on investment of around five to seven years, according to Alliant Energy.
Resources:
View Article: A Greener Laundry & Bigger Profits
View Article: Why High-Speed Equipment Makes Good Sense
View Article: Laundries Going Green for More Profit with High-Speed Washers
