For me, the laundry industry is become popular among people who works and students. This types of business are growing from traditional to modern process. Working people usually prefer to use (1) Premium Laundry Service especially for Dry Cleaning or (2) Self Service Laundry (Coins) for Normal Wash especially to use the Dryer. While student will prefer to use the Self Service Laundry because it is easy to handle and affordable for them rather than Premium Laundry Services.
Traditional Laundry Services
The Traditional Laundry Services was first done in watercourses, letting the water carry away the materials which could cause stains and smells. Laundry is still done this way in some less industrialized areas and rural regions. Agitation helps remove the dirt, so the laundry is often rubbed, twisted, or slapped against flat rocks. Wooden bats or clubs could be used to help with beating the dirt out. These were often called washing beetles or bats and could be used by the waterside on a rock (a beetling-stone), on a block (battling-block), or on a board. They were once common across Europe and were also used by settlers in North America. Similar techniques have also been identified in Japan.
When no watercourses were available, laundry was done in water-tight vats or vessels. Sometimes large metal cauldrons were filled with fresh water and heated over a fire; boiling water was even more effective than cold in removing dirt. Wooden or stone scrubbing surfaces set up near a water supply or portable washboards, including factory-made corrugated metal ones, gradually replaced rocks as a surface for loosening soil.
Before the advent of the washing machine, apart from watercourses, laundry was also done in communal or public wash houses (also called wash-houses or wash houses), especially in rural areas in Europe or the Mediterranean Basin. Water was channeled from a river or spring and fed into a building or outbuilding built specifically for laundry purposes and often containing two basins - one for washing and the other for rinsing - through which the water was constantly flowing, as well as a stone lip inclined towards the water against which the washers could beat the clothes. Such facilities were much more comfortable than washing in a watercourse because the launderers could work standing up instead of on their knees, and were protected from inclement weather by walls (often) and a roof (with some exceptions). Also, they didn't have to go far, as the facilities were usually at hand in the village or at the edge of a town. These facilities were public and available to all families, and usually used by the entire village.
The Industrial Revolution completely transformed
laundry technology. The mangle (wringer US) was developed in the 19th
century - two long rollers in a frame and a crank to revolve them. A
laundry-worker took sopping wet clothing and cranked it through the mangle,
compressing the cloth and expelling the excess water. The mangle was much
quicker than hand twisting. It was a variation on the box mangle used primarily
for pressing and smoothing cloth.
Meanwhile, 19th century inventors further
mechanized the laundry process with various hand-operated washing machines.
Most involved turning a handle to move paddles inside a tub. Then some early
20th century machines used an electrically powered agitator to replace tedious
hand rubbing against a washboard. Many of these were simply a tub on legs, with
a hand-operated mangle on top. Later the mangle too was electrically powered,
then replaced by a perforated double tub, which spun out the excess water in a
spin cycle. Laundry drying was also mechanized, with clothes
dryers. Dryers were also spinning perforated tubs, but they blew heated air
rather than water.
Modern Laundry Services
Nowadays, the Modern Laundry Services include washing (usually with water containing detergents or other chemicals), agitation, rinsing, drying and pressing (ironing). The washing will often be done at a temperature above room temperature to increase the activities of any chemicals used and the solubility of stains, and high temperatures kill micro-organisms that may be present on the fabric. Modern washing machines typically use synthetic powdered or liquid laundry detergent in place of more traditional soap. The Dry Cleaning Service also provided as mentioned in Post 8 before.
Premium Laundry Services
In Modern Laundry Services usually the owner used new technology and system to operate their business smoothly. One of example Premium Laundry Services that use latest technology is service provide by Laundry Locker (https://laundrylocker.com), whereby the customers need to signing up for an account on their website. Then, when the customers want to do laundry, or have items that need to be dry-cleaned, they just truck their load down to a Laundry Locker location. The company have six kiosks like the one on Haight Street (five in San Francisco, one in Berkeley), but they also have standalone lockers in 600+ apartment buildings, convenience stores, and gyms all over the city. Since they're the first dry cleaner in SF actually open 24 hours, 7 days a week, the convenience factor is high. So, the customer only swipe into the kiosk using a credit card that have linked to their account. The customers find an open locker, and put your clothes in it.
Laundry Locker
Then, the customer just need close the door and lock it, entering a 4-digit code of their choosing for
security's sake. Then, they need to send a text message to Laundry Locker with your
locker number, letting them know when the laundry's ready to be picked up.
One of Laundry Locker's drivers swings by the location at least once a day to both pick up new laundry and drop off orders that have already been processed. The driver empties out the locker's bounty, bags it, tags it, scans it, and loads it into the van. It's then whisked off to the processing facility in Bayview. If the customer dropping off dry-cleaning, every single item of it is tagged with a tiny bar-code - often pressed onto the underside of the hemline where no one will see it.
The garment is then laid out flat on a table, and a digital photo is taken of it. Yes, they take a digital photo of every item they have dry-cleaned. The company meant to give both the customer and Laundry Locker an inventory of all the items that were received, as well as document the exact condition they were received in - just in case there are any disputes. Once the items are scanned, the customer can do something pretty cool - log into their account on Laundry Locker's website, and can see the photo of each individual item.
Texting Laundry Locker
One of Laundry Locker's drivers swings by the location at least once a day to both pick up new laundry and drop off orders that have already been processed. The driver empties out the locker's bounty, bags it, tags it, scans it, and loads it into the van. It's then whisked off to the processing facility in Bayview. If the customer dropping off dry-cleaning, every single item of it is tagged with a tiny bar-code - often pressed onto the underside of the hemline where no one will see it.
Bar-code
The garment is then laid out flat on a table, and a digital photo is taken of it. Yes, they take a digital photo of every item they have dry-cleaned. The company meant to give both the customer and Laundry Locker an inventory of all the items that were received, as well as document the exact condition they were received in - just in case there are any disputes. Once the items are scanned, the customer can do something pretty cool - log into their account on Laundry Locker's website, and can see the photo of each individual item.
Photo Taken
The customers can then add notes, like, "Please wash these pants in cold water,"
or, "There a stain on the left sleeve - get at it!" They can even mark
the area of the article where a stain needs to be removed.
Customers Notes
Laundry
Locker will remove stains and replace buttons for free. Then, the items are
washed and/or dry cleaned, according to customers preferences. They can specify
things like fragrance-free detergent, starch, and low-heat drying, though some
of these feature cost extra. The
washing machines at Laundry Locker are pretty high-tech and eco-friendly. Most
high-volume washing machines use a solvent to remove the dirt and oil from the clothes, and that solvent is discarded after every use, which is not so great
for the environment. Laundry Locker's machines use a silicon-based solvent
which gets filtered after each cycle, meaning 85% of the solvent is re-used
each week. These machines don't come cheap though - this one here cost over
$100,000, which is at least ten times the cost of the traditional kind.
Washing Machine
Laundry Lockers Machines
Laundry Locker offers
labor-intensive services like spot treatments and hand-pressing of garments. They've
got large dryers for commercial orders - sports clubs, hotels, etc - in which
several mesh bags of laundry from different customers will be dried at the same
time. And then there are smaller dryers for individual customers. The
one-order-per-dryer ratio lets each customer specify items like drying
temperature and fabric softener preferences - something many other laundry
services don't provide. Once the laundry finished, if it's wash-and-fold, it's
folded at a folding station, and similar items (like, say, all your t-shirts)
are grouped together, stacked, and wrapped in cellophane. If it's dry-cleaning, the items are hung on a conveyor
belt and scanned again.
Garment Conveyor Machine
With many orders being processed at any given time, the conveyor belt carries a mix of lots of customers' garments. But thanks to some proprietary computer software, customers clothes are automatically filtered from the conveyor belt, grouped together, and spit out to the side in clusters of five. An employee then double-checks them and bags them up (using eco-friendly compos-table dry-cleaning bags), scans them, and sets them aside to be put on the van for delivery.
Employee Double Checks
Then the driver fills up a Laundry Locker van with bags of laundry, in an order correlating to the order of stops along the route - all very efficient-like.
Laundry Locker Van
Finally, the driver drops off customers laundry, stowing it in an open locker at the same facility where they dropped it off. The customers receive a text message and an email confirming that their laundry is available, and indicating which locker contains the items, along with a 4-digit code that can use to access it. The customers swing by, swipe in, enter the code - there are the clean clothes, wrapped up snug in a shiny bag, ready to be taken home. It was so easy since the company using latest technology and system to monitor the services.
Clean Clothes
Self Service Laundry (Coins)
Bubble Lab From Outside
Usually the customers only brings the laundry or garment that they need to wash and dry to the shop. Even though the shop has provide the detergent and softener for free, the customers can bring on their own. Before doing the laundry process, the customer needs to change their notes into coins at Coin Changer. They can exchange RM1, RM5 and RM10 notes into 50 cent coins. After that they can use the Washer and Dryer using the coins given.
Coin Changer
To operate the Washer, first the customer needs to put their garment or linen into the Washer and make sure to close the door tighten. Secondly, they need to put the detergent or softener if necessary. Third, they need to choose the water temperature whether (1) Cold RM6.00; (2) Warm RM6.50; or (3) Hot RM7.00. After that, the customer needs to insert the coin according to the price shown beside the water temperature selection. The Washer takes only 24 minutes to finish the washing process.
Washer Instructions
After washing their clothes using the Washer, the customer can use the Dryer to get the clothes dry without waiting 2 or 3 days to dried outside the house. To operate the Dryer, the same instruction must be made. First, the customer unload the garment or laundry from Washer then put them into Dryer. Make sure the door is locked. Then, select the appropriate drying temperature. Insert the coins for required drying duration. Minimum drying time is 24 minutes for RM4.00, 30 minutes for RM5.00 while extra 50 cents for extra 5 minutes. Finally, press the button to start.
Dryer Instruction
Dryer
Dryer
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