Rag Cleaning Service

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David Saulque

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How do you people handle dirty rags? We use a service and the price is getting way out of line-any ideas?:eek:
 
David Saulque said:
How do you people handle dirty rags? We use a service and the price is getting way out of line-any ideas?:eek:
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Divorce Them!!!:p
 
towell service

I use a service named aramark. I get uniforms, for four employees & @150-200 towells a week for $120.00 a month. They deliver & I don't have to work with dirty clothes, the uniforms look good & I have plenty of towells. I tried buying them & all other ways but this is the best for us.
 
David,

We buy those cotton terry towels 14X17 from Sam's Club. A bag of 48 is just over $13.00. When they get stiff we carry them to the local laundromat on illegal-alien-night and wash the heck out of them. Two washes and they're trash.
 
I use Aramark for rags-It just seem to be priced high-about $75 per week. When I was useing them local coin cleaner-I was told don't come back. Keep in mind I cleaned the washers and dryers after use. Plus, I never replace rags with Aramark, they just replace the damaged ones.
 
David,

Buy your wife a new washer & Dryer and use the old ones to wash rags and unifioms.
 
I am on a septic system-near a wetland with fish and other wildlife-If I washed rags,I would be on "60 min. next week" as a example of polution damage and clean up.
 
indiana jones said:
David,

We buy those cotton terry towels 14X17 from Sam's Club. A bag of 48 is just over $13.00. When they get stiff we carry them to the local laundromat on illegal-alien-night and wash the heck out of them. Two washes and they're trash.
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I thought that was every night...... I tried the soak and wash at the laundromat but was relly time consuming. I started using the blue disposable shop towels that they sell at Home depot for 1.88 a roll. I usually use one roll on a regular hood system, as I use them I throw them in the catch bucket or down on the floor to catch and spills and they end up in the dumpster at the end of the job.
 
I have lots of rags, But I do go to the laundrymat and wash about once a month, To keep them clean between jobs I rinse alot and more often I rinse some more I can do a job with about three towels and one for polish.

I also do alot of bit#%#$ between about my time to clean the towels.

Matt
 
I tried paper towells at first. My cost per job was $3.00, for 2 rolls of towells. The used towels were thrown on the floor, where they did double duty soaking up water. Then I hired helpers. My cost went up. Then I tried to wash towells myself. A 3 gallon bucket of SH in the washing machine did not even start to clean the nasty greasy things. Washing 2 or 3 times did not work. And I had to hold my breath while dumping the SH into the washer.

Now I send them to the local laundry @ $1.40 per pound. Sometimes they are not even able to get them clean. I do have an agreement with the lauandry. Any towells that have their mark, get cleaned and billed to me, and they keep the towells. Any towells with any other marks, I get them back.

We do run some of the rags through the dishmachine to remove some of the grease, but that is not very effiecient. I tried using the PW, but found that tore up the rags.

I do keep the white towells and the red towells separate. The red rags do not work to clean hoods.
 
I buy "worn out" towels from Cintas. They are clean, well used, and we throw them away after using them. Costs $20 for a 20 lb bag, or about 250 towels.
 
WOW thanks for the info Josh....i got to find them..
 
Laugh now but when I'm done with gigs in sun city I hit the lake. Have 7 hammocks poles ..ect So my 89 chevy step van looks like 20lbs of sh*t in a 5lbs bag, gets the job done. I've never put much thought into looking good just being good.
 
Lou hoods&more said:
I've never put much thought into looking good just being good.
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A quote for the industry.:D I'm going to save that one.
 
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