Laundry facilities are in high demand nowadays: all kinds of people use these services – individuals, hotels, kindergartens, private clinics, restaurants, etc.
All of them can become your regular customers if you organize a sustainable company that offers quality services!
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Required documents
For a start you have to register your company with the taxing authority (in most cases it will be a PE).
Your next step will be to check out sanitary-epidemiological service requirements to a laundry business.
Services like the fire department, work safety services, electricity providers, water supply, gas emergency service and architects also have their requirements to a laundry business. You’ll have to get all the permissions.
Location of your business
You should open your full service laundry room closer to hotels, entertainment centers, kindergartens. Large residential areas would be another good place. Here you can place both universal laundries and launderettes.
Mini-laundry rooms should be opened in the proximity of student hostels as students will become your permanent clientele.
Purchase of equipment
The most essential thing is to buy washing machines.
You can buy used machines to save some money.
Additional equipment:
- drying racks;
- ironing tools;
- mannequins for steaming clothes;
- equipment to remove stains;
- a centrifuge;
- portable hangers;
- dry cleaning machine.
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The required amount of washing powder:
- for a day (8 hours) – 7 kg;
- for a week (5 working days) – 35 kg;
- for a month (4 working weeks) – 140 kg.
However, just washing powder is not enough for a quality service. Modern clothes washing involves the use of bleach, rinser, flavors, enhancers, softeners, etc. These costs will be plentifully repaid to you – as you will be able to offer a better service.
Besides that, you will need professional care products for your washing machines and other equipment. The optimal solution will be to find suppliers of household chemicals and make a deal with them – this way you will be able to save a lot on the purchase and transportation of goods.
Additional services
To cover the initial costs and increase your income, you can expand the range of the services. For instance, you can offer dry cleaning, taking large amounts of laundry for cleaning / washing / ironing, as well as packaging, transportation and delivery.
Staff
The number of staff depends on the range of laundry services.
2-6 employees will be involved exclusively in the washing process. In addition, you will need some people for reception and delivery of clothes. You will also need one employee for ironing as well as a gasman, an electrician, an accountant and a specialist in technical equipment (the last 4 should be outsourced employees) .
Self-service laundry requires fewer employers.
Profitability
A private laundry is a profitable business. In order to start you only need to make a correct business plan, order effective advertising campaign, organize troubleproof operation, ensure high quality of your service and find your customers.
On average, you will need about $3000-5000 to open a small facility while your income could be $1500-2000 a month in the near future.
Starting a business with the largest free classified ads portal Jiji is very simple: just place a promising offer and a certain part of the huge flow of our visitors (more than 10 million per month) will become your customers!
