Laundromat Operations & Maintenance Manual

By D. Rod Lloyd

Owning a Laundromat is a great business and can be very profitable. It is an all-cash business and recession-proof.  A self-service laundromat runs all by itself.  All you need to do is collect the cash and wipe down the machines.

 

This book will tell you how to run a laundromat with no prior experience.

 

The skills needed to run and maintain a laundromat are not rocket science and don't need expensive equipment: just common sense and logic.

I will tell you how it is, the good, the bad and the ugly—everything you need to know to get started.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. Rod Lloyd
• Release date: Jan 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215740491

D. Rod Lloyd

As a kid, whenever I saw an old clock at a jumble sale or going cheap, I would buy it and take it apart to see how it worked. I don’t think I ever got one back together again, but I enjoyed tinkering with them. Twenty years later when I was getting married, now living in the USA, Auntie Florrie wrote to me saying I could now have my Grandfathers clock. I arranged to have the clock shipped over and it was proudly placed in the entrance hall to my home. It was built in about 1880 in Maghull England by a local clockmaker, [before the electric light was invented], had a stately mahogany case, hand-painted dial and ran nicely. After a few years, it stopped. I was frustrated that I didn’t know what was wrong with it or how to get it going. I ended up having it serviced by a local repair shop and it ran again. I was fascinated with the clock. In 1995, my family decided to spend a year in England including putting the kids in school. It was a big challenge to arrange to swap houses with an English family. Finally, we were settled, and the kids started school, my wife was volunteering at a local charity shop and suddenly I had time on my hands. I read the paper that morning and came across an ad for a clock course starting nearby at Manchester City College. I called the college and they told me it was a three-year course, one day per week. I explained I was only in the country for one year, so I persuaded them to let me take the course, coming all three days. I enjoyed the course and did very well. The final exam took several weeks, making a ‘suspension bridge’ from scratch to exact specifications, restoring several old clocks and watches. I documented the process and took the extensive final written exam all set by BHI [British Horological Institute]. I did pass the exams and became a Horologist. 25 years later I teach clock repair classes and ‘pass it on’. This is the class workbook.

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D. Rod Lloyd 2023

First Published 7/14/2017

Contents

Preface

About the Author

Equipment Manuals

Repair Procedure

Top Loaders

Old Top Loaders

Replace a Water Pump

How to remove the top of an old top loader

Replace the Motor

Removing the Water Mixing Valve

Remove Coin Slide

Maytag Front Loaders

Problem 1

Problem 2

Maytag Remove Top

Accessing the Maytag Coin Drop

Large Front Loaders

Problem 3

Problem 4

Problem 5

Problem 6

Dryers

Problem 7

Problem 8

Problem 9

Problem 10

Problem 11

Change Machine

Problem 12

Services

Water Pipes

Drains

Electrical

HVAC

Security

Lights

Surveillance

Tools

Spare Parts

Preventative Maintenance

Machine Optimization

Stores Interior

Attended / Unattended

Open 24 hours

In Conclusion

Links

Preface

Owning a coin-operated laundromat is a great business and can be very profitable.  But, unless you have all new equipment, it can quickly nickel and dime you into making a loss and going out of business, losing your investment. 

I write this manual, not as a business major or certified appliance person [and certainly not an English major].  I write it as an average ‘Joe’ who bought a