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Thread Number: 26611
Laundromat Last Night |
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| Post# 408616 1/23/2010 at 07:34 (5,200 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
I was at the local Laundromat last night drying three loads of clothes. A couple of dudes came in with a hamper and stuffed its contents into a Huebsch Triple Loader. The machine was just over half full. The put their $5.50 in quarters in and selected a Normal Warm cycle. The countdown timer lit up with 18 minutes as the total cycle time. I was shocked that for 5.50 all you got was 18 minutes start to finish. The machine began its thing. At 14 minutes, the add bleach light came on and the machine began beeping. At 12 minutes, pump out. ( yeah, 6 min wash) No spin. Fill for rinse. Rinsed twice without spinning a bit. At 6 minutes, final spin kicked in. I am still in shock. I will need to find another wash-o-mat and see what their machines do. I think there is a Maytag equipped shop a little further away. The balance of my laundry will be dried there. I'll report my findings tomorrow. Malcolm | ||
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| Post# 408634 , Reply# 3 1/23/2010 at 09:00 (5,200 days old) by danmantn (Tennessee) | ||
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Post# 408644 , Reply# 4 1/23/2010 at 09:42 (5,200 days old) by peteski50  (New York) |
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Wascomats! | ||
| Post# 408719 , Reply# 5 1/23/2010 at 13:48 (5,199 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
Malcom, Where is this laundromat? Email me. In the South, we are still averaging .10/lb. If that was a triple, it should be about $3.00. The story I got years ago was that an exec from Wasco jumped ship for Unimac (then making SQ commercial washers) and revamped the coin op cycle to mimic that of Wasco. Depending on the model and the options available to the owner, they can drop the prewash and a rinse, but cannot extend the wash time. Sounds like this owner decided to do this in the middle of the drought and/or their water authority raised water/sewer rates. That they did this AND raised prices so exorbantly sounds to me like this owner is either greedy or getting ready to go under or both. | ||
| Post# 408781 , Reply# 6 1/23/2010 at 18:26 (5,199 days old) by supersurgilator (Indiana) | ||
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The price is a bit high for a triple. Here at our laundromats SQ toploaders are $2.00, Dexter triples are $3.75 and Dexter Maxi (40#) are $5.00 Dryers are 5 minutes per quarter. The front loader cycle us around 25 minutes and spins after the wash and each rinse. | ||
| Post# 408844 , Reply# 7 1/23/2010 at 21:16 (5,199 days old) by aaronfitzy (Pennsylvania) | ||
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| Post# 408850 , Reply# 8 1/23/2010 at 21:27 (5,199 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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My last quilt washing in Millington Tn, i used a new wascomat, had the "electrolux" emblem on it. had the same dial with prewash,w,rsrsrs. It was $4.25 to operate. but was similar to the older cycle i remembered in older Wascomats. alr2903 | ||
| Post# 408852 , Reply# 9 1/23/2010 at 21:43 (5,199 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Machine Swap
Rather than going to the laundromat in the morning to finish laundry, I decided to go ahead and swap out the SQ dryer for the 26 year old Maytag. Thank goodness I kept it. I really didn't want to have to move the SQ dryer, if I could help it. But, I decided it would be move convenient in the long run since I'm not sure when the SQ will be repaired. Malcolm | ||
| Post# 408855 , Reply# 10 1/23/2010 at 21:48 (5,199 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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Post# 408861 , Reply# 11 1/23/2010 at 21:59 (5,199 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 409218 , Reply# 12 1/25/2010 at 00:02 (5,198 days old) by strongenough78 (California) | ||
Malcolm
The new Huebsch front loaders here do the same thing. The first time I used one it showed a 14 minute total cycle, I was like ok, what a rip off. However for an extra 50 cents you can get an extra wash and extra rinse. Or 25 cents for each one. With the extra added cycles they seem to do a good job. Luckily the laundromat here that has them has a special every tuesday and thursday $2.00 for the standard cycle. $3.00 any other day. But, this is why I prefer top loaders over front loaders unless I absolutely need to use one.
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| Post# 409243 , Reply# 14 1/25/2010 at 07:22 (5,198 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Huebsch | ||
| Post# 409266 , Reply# 16 1/25/2010 at 09:23 (5,198 days old) by danmantn (Tennessee) | ||
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| Post# 409735 , Reply# 17 1/26/2010 at 16:11 (5,196 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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At least... | ||
| Post# 409828 , Reply# 18 1/26/2010 at 22:22 (5,196 days old) by strongenough78 (California) | ||
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Malcolm..... | ||
| Post# 409859 , Reply# 19 1/27/2010 at 03:05 (5,196 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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There are 4 new Wascomat Electronic control machines at our local Chinese Coin Op. You select if you want more wash time, more water in the rinse cycle, extra rinses, etc. As was just pointed out, each change to the normal cycle costs 0.25 (USD). | ||
| Post# 409883 , Reply# 20 1/27/2010 at 06:44 (5,196 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Hmmm... | ||
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