Hotel opts for fixed price hire

With 40 rooms including a number of suites, a busy restaurant and five rooms catering for weddings and other private events there’s always plenty of laundry. While bed and table linen requiring ironing is sent out everything else is laundered in-house including towels, face cloths, robes, chef’s whites and the kitchen linen. 

The hotel had a small laundry supplied by Armstrong Commercial Laundry Systems consisting of just one washer and one dryer that was installed in 2007 on a fixed price hire agreement. 

Last year head housekeeper Linda Collins suggested that as the equipment needed replacing and occupancy was increasing it would be worthwhile to double the capacity of the laundry. This would enable them to wash the robes which were previously sent out and also provide a quicker, more efficient turn-around on the stock. 

Having been happy with the Armstrong agreement for the previous eight years they asked them to come back, and a new laundry was subsequently ordered and installed. 

The new laundry, which is in operation every day from 7.00am to 8.00pm, consists of two Amazon HSF washers, one 14kg and one 18kg capacity and a Huebsch stacked tumble dryer providing 2x14kg capacity. Once again the hotel has opted for a fixed price hire scheme which includes all parts and labour throughout the rental period and ensures ease of budgeting for the laundry outgoings.

"We are very pleased with the new equipment,” Linda said, “and the additional capacity has really made a difference.”