Equipment Selection
Your choice of equipment is either going to make you successful or eat up most of your profits in repairs or servicing. You can do everything right, or by choosing the wrong configuration of equipment for your demographic or competitive area your chances for success may be greatly diminished. This may include using either the newest and most efficient washers and dryers or minimizing your innitial costs and buying pre-owned washers and dryers. Very important considerations to take into account when choosing what type of equipment will benifit your business the most is not as easy as one might think. The ethnic makeup, average age, level of education, number of adults and children per household, and many other considerations must be taken into account when choosing the proper mix of equipment for your store. ADL Consulting’s experience in building and remodeling many hundreds of coin laundry and card laundry stores can give that very important competitive edge when making your selections of equipment for your store. Another very important consideration is the price that you will be paying for all of your equipment. At ADL, we understand the importance of minimizing your equipment purchase costs, and through our proven expertise we can dramatically reduce your equipment costs by negotiating in your behalf, with your equipment distributor for the best possible prices. Depending on the amount or typed of equipment you are buying, this can save you many thousands of dollars, decrease the amount of money you may need to finance, and helping your bottom line profitablity by a significant amount of money.
It is of great importance to use the brand and configuration of equipment that can take the sustained use that your business is going to generate. If you plan on being a long term owner, do not cut corners on your most important asset. If you take good care in choosing and maintaining your equipment, your equipment will take care of you and your customers.
The configuration of your equipment will be made up of commercial dryers, top load washers and different size front load washers. Some markets do not even use top load washers (these are the home-style washers that open from the top). Front loaders washers are the heavy duty commercial washers with locking front door access. These will usually run from 14 pound capacity to as much as 80 pound capacity. They do come larger, but those are usually only found in hotels, hospitals and commercial laundry operations.
Dryers used in coin or card laundries are the 30-pound single, 30 pound stack dryer, or 45 pound stack dryer. If you are using a number of 50, 60, or 80 pound front load washers, you will need some 50 pound or 75 pound dryers to complement the washers that you are using.
Another very important consideration in a modern and state of the art Laundry/Laundromat, is whether or not you want the store to be on a card system, and a POS (point of sale system at the counter). This will basically make the operation of the store virtually CASHLESS. That all service is purchased through the use of debit cards originating in the store. This will, almost completely eliminate loss of profits through stealing. It will also make tracking the store’s income relatively easy, either through the internet, or using software within the store itself. The purchase of a camera system within the store, that is connected to a recorder or monitor in the store and which can also be viewed either at home, or anywhere that you have an internet connection. These systems allow the owner to keep close tabs on the store’s operation and employees no matter where the owner is located.
Whether to use top loaders, or various size front loaders and dryers will be determined by the demographics within your area as well as which equipment your customers are accustomed to using. Sometimes the addition of bigger and better equipment is just what is needed to create a larger customer base as well as pulling customers away from competing coin laundries. Part of our service is to help you make those very important decisions. With the total knowledge of your market and your budget we can put together a complement of equipment that will generate the excitement, satisfaction and service that will help you achieve your financial goals.
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