When you manage an apartment building or any type of housing complex that offers on-site laundry facilities, your tenants expect to have regular access to efficient machines. To help you meet these expectations, we offer you the following seven tips.
1. Ensure Proper Ventilation
Whether you are creating a new laundry room or are managing an older one, it is important to ensure that there is sufficient ventilation in the laundry room. The hot water from the washers and the moisture released from the wet laundry during the drying process needs a place to go. The dryers require fresh make-up air that is heated then exhausted to the outside along with lint and moisture. The fresh air requirement is critical for proper performance of gas dryers and to protect the residents of the building. Ventilation is particularly important in laundry rooms with stacked washer and dryer installations or when a bulkhead encloses a bank of stacked dryer/dryer units. The heat and moisture generated behind these laundry units can be significant. Harco offers a laundry room design service can help you make any necessary laundry room layout changes and to ensure your HVAC contractor has the most up to date venting requirements.
2. Choose the Right Equipment
Energy efficient commercial washing machines and dryers not only help your building save money on utilities, but they are designed to withstand the heavy use that occurs in apartment buildings and other shared living facilities. Furthermore, with the right machines, stacked washer and dryer installations become an effective addition to your apartment building’s self-serve laundry room. Modern washers feature advanced basket designs that lower water use by 2/3 compared to traditional top load washers. Harco offers cutting edge dryer technology using ventless dryers that remove the moisture through a condensation process and then pumps the water down the drain.
3. Perform Regular Maintenance
Even though commercial washing machines and dryers are built for heavy loads and long running periods, regular maintenance will help keep them in tip-top shape and avoid annoying and inconvenient breakdowns for your tenants. Dryer vent ducts require annual cleaning to ensure best performance and protect the building from potential fire issues.
4. Provide Clear Instructions
Whether your laundry machines are high-tech or low-tech, stacked washer and dryer installations or side-by-side machines, it is important that they be used properly. This not only protects your machines, but also ensures the smooth running of your self-serve facilities. Therefore, post clear, easy-to-follow instructions for both washers and dryers. Highlight special features or settings that will help tenants launder their belongings in the most appropriate and timely manner.
5. Establish a Clear Schedule
For the comfort of residents who live near the laundry room, it is important to establish laundry room hours. Furthermore, even commercial washing machines and dryers benefit from a good night’s sleep.
6. Implement a Digital Payment System
You can simplify your accounting and prevent theft-related vandalism in your laundry room by installing card readers or other cashless or card-operated modern commercial washing machines and dryers. Furthermore, this technology helps action our next tip on this blog.
7. Monitor Usage and Performance
Technology can now help you track your modern laundry machine usage and performance. It can also alert you to problems and malfunctions directly on your phone if you have the correct software and applications. There are many systems available to allow remote monitoring of cash flow and machine operation allow the most experienced team in Canada assist you in selecting the best solution -- Harco Co. Ltd.
Apartment Laundry Room Solutions by Harco Co. Ltd.
Harco Co. Ltd. has been helping property managers design, install, and maintain efficient laundry room services throughout Canada for over 60 years. Contact us today for help implementing the efficiency tips mentioned above or to request a quote for a custom laundry room design or installation for your apartment building in Canada.
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