mrb627
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How hotels do laundry.
Housekeeping Laundry
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kenmoreguy89
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Mmmmhhhh the same way everyone does at home? I actually also iron my clothes...
I guess it is a 5 stars hotel for not even iron customer's clothes! LOL
This video is just weird. The situation the project and how "hotel-laundry" is done and teached in this video is weird......without even an ironing or an hanger to deliver the T-shirt.....
This is good that in the Philippines they teach to guys to do laundry, most of my peers would make a mess at it, this is the sad truth of modern youths, sometimes I wonder what they would do if they lived alone without their "mommy" that still wiping their "behinds"....
They could at least teach at those guys of this campus how to iron a shirt! This rather looks a basic laundry tutorial for how to operate a washer and dryer........
I guess it is a 5 stars hotel for not even iron customer's clothes! LOL
This video is just weird. The situation the project and how "hotel-laundry" is done and teached in this video is weird......without even an ironing or an hanger to deliver the T-shirt.....
This is good that in the Philippines they teach to guys to do laundry, most of my peers would make a mess at it, this is the sad truth of modern youths, sometimes I wonder what they would do if they lived alone without their "mommy" that still wiping their "behinds"....
They could at least teach at those guys of this campus how to iron a shirt! This rather looks a basic laundry tutorial for how to operate a washer and dryer........
hoovermatic
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Obviously a very SMALL hotel! Anyone who has worked in a large hotel will know that is most definitely NOT how they do the laundry!
mrb627
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Puzzling
There are several things about this video I find puzzling.
For example, why wait until the end of the wash phase before adding fabric softener to the dispenser. Only to have it spun out shortly after closing the lid.
I also could not accurately determine the wash cycle that was chosen for that load.
(scratching head)
Malcolm
There are several things about this video I find puzzling.
For example, why wait until the end of the wash phase before adding fabric softener to the dispenser. Only to have it spun out shortly after closing the lid.
I also could not accurately determine the wash cycle that was chosen for that load.
(scratching head)
Malcolm
Obviously A Small and Very Cheap (Spending Moneywise) Hotel
You wouldn't catch all but the smallest B&B trying to do all that laundry with a toploading washer. Through-put is not only very slow but results in terms of stain and soil removal would vastly depend more upon chemicals than mechanical action.
Perhaps if they had row of washers and dryers one could buy into this, but just cannot see it.
You wouldn't catch all but the smallest B&B trying to do all that laundry with a toploading washer. Through-put is not only very slow but results in terms of stain and soil removal would vastly depend more upon chemicals than mechanical action.
Perhaps if they had row of washers and dryers one could buy into this, but just cannot see it.
When my sister's ex mother-in-law owned a motel (10 units), she used a couple Whirlpool top load washers, one Whirlpool dryer (29"), and one GE (big door) dryer. He hated the GE dryer. This was during the late 70's - early 80's.
In addition to the sheets and towels from the guest rooms, she laundered the towels from the restaurant.
In addition to the sheets and towels from the guest rooms, she laundered the towels from the restaurant.
kenmoreguy89
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Tom
Yes of course, it is very usual here to have TL and even commercial type TL also as UniMac at hotels and restaurants even here in Italy, you can find speed queens and Uni.mac also regular domestic machines at times sold as "sturdy" ones, you can find them in many shops for professional catering and hotels supplies and machinery over here , at culinary school they had a maytag TL and a FL,.....being a degreed chef I had alot of weekly and monthly internships and also worked in many hotels and restaurants during summertime since I started culinary school, they always were about 30-45 rooms and in many I saw TL machines and they all worked just fine for hotel laundry sizes, ladies came at 7:00 in the morning and got out about 5:00 in the evening, no laundry was left to wash or iron...often they had 3-4 washers and 2 bigger dryers....but also seen "normal" gas dryers at times.....
of course I even found hotels where I found FL's but looked all same size of a TL, I used to see at least always 3 of them just one bigger, one hotels had Miele, another had Electrolux wascator machines....the other one had an italian brand called "grandimpianti"....the others just can't remember....
Of course an hotel like for Ex the. "New york plaza" would need about 300 of TL's due to load sizes they do......they're just good for average size hotels.....not immense ones
Yes of course, it is very usual here to have TL and even commercial type TL also as UniMac at hotels and restaurants even here in Italy, you can find speed queens and Uni.mac also regular domestic machines at times sold as "sturdy" ones, you can find them in many shops for professional catering and hotels supplies and machinery over here , at culinary school they had a maytag TL and a FL,.....being a degreed chef I had alot of weekly and monthly internships and also worked in many hotels and restaurants during summertime since I started culinary school, they always were about 30-45 rooms and in many I saw TL machines and they all worked just fine for hotel laundry sizes, ladies came at 7:00 in the morning and got out about 5:00 in the evening, no laundry was left to wash or iron...often they had 3-4 washers and 2 bigger dryers....but also seen "normal" gas dryers at times.....
of course I even found hotels where I found FL's but looked all same size of a TL, I used to see at least always 3 of them just one bigger, one hotels had Miele, another had Electrolux wascator machines....the other one had an italian brand called "grandimpianti"....the others just can't remember....
Of course an hotel like for Ex the. "New york plaza" would need about 300 of TL's due to load sizes they do......they're just good for average size hotels.....not immense ones
the film is sort of strange-no cart for the person collecting the lines from the rooms-the what appears to be a "household" type WP TL washer and a residentual type dryer.Must be a VERY small operation!and in the "crawler""Put lines ON the washer"-and "Put Linens ON the dryer."Wouldn't places like hotels,motels and such use an off site LINEN CLEANING service for these duties?and since the service would have many customers besides that one hotel-they would have the larger industrial type equipment.And when returning the items-again no cart for the person to use-would think he or she would have to delivor the linens to MANY rooms or guests at one time.And would think the linens and items would be in a bag or wrapper of some sort with the room# on it.
whirlcool
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What I found bizarre about this video was that she entered a room only to find towels on the floor, but the beds were perfectly made. Not even a arse mark where somebody may have sat down.
Then she arrives at the laundry room to turn the towels in for washing. They get washed but when they are dried what comes out? You would expect sheets, but T-shirts and a hand towel come out of the dryer! How'd that happen?
And even for a small hotel I would expect a Big Mac with auto detergent dispensing to be used. It looked like they were using the "Gentle/Knits" cycle too. I think if they are only using powered detergent I think the sheets coming out are not as sanitary as they could be.
And why isn't that maid wearing rubber/latex gloves? Most of the room maidens I used to see did. In a motel/hotel TRULY "Lord only knows what you'll find on the bed!". And sometimes that "Lord Only Knows" rolls out of the sheets and onto the floor!
Whenever I used to stay at a hotel/motel (and believe me I have stayed at PLENTY in my life) I usually hang the towel on the shower rod and hang the floor mat on the bath tub rim. I usually put newspapers, etc. in the trash bin. Just to make it easier for the housekeeping staff.
I once talked to a guy who worked at a Hyatt in the housekeeping dept. He told me that a lot of people just make it harder on the staff by being real pigs in their rooms and doing some things that are unmentionable that may put the room out of service for a couple of days. I've seen the same stuff go on in airplane bath rooms.
Then she arrives at the laundry room to turn the towels in for washing. They get washed but when they are dried what comes out? You would expect sheets, but T-shirts and a hand towel come out of the dryer! How'd that happen?
And even for a small hotel I would expect a Big Mac with auto detergent dispensing to be used. It looked like they were using the "Gentle/Knits" cycle too. I think if they are only using powered detergent I think the sheets coming out are not as sanitary as they could be.
And why isn't that maid wearing rubber/latex gloves? Most of the room maidens I used to see did. In a motel/hotel TRULY "Lord only knows what you'll find on the bed!". And sometimes that "Lord Only Knows" rolls out of the sheets and onto the floor!
Whenever I used to stay at a hotel/motel (and believe me I have stayed at PLENTY in my life) I usually hang the towel on the shower rod and hang the floor mat on the bath tub rim. I usually put newspapers, etc. in the trash bin. Just to make it easier for the housekeeping staff.
I once talked to a guy who worked at a Hyatt in the housekeeping dept. He told me that a lot of people just make it harder on the staff by being real pigs in their rooms and doing some things that are unmentionable that may put the room out of service for a couple of days. I've seen the same stuff go on in airplane bath rooms.
I concur; a very odd little film whose banners play fast and loose with rules of the English language. What's with the small load? Pulling T-shirts from the dryer? Entering a clean room with towels on the floor? Filling the softener dispenser after the wash cycle? Certainly this oddity must have been made by David Lynch.
kenmoreguy89
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Camon guys! I'm the first one that said this video is weird in so many points! Don't forget though that this is a video made from school guys in a simulating project of Hotel housekeeping and this little film of course was made to speed up thing, they acted this time.....so it is one of the most "fake" films......
Maybe they did not even turned on the washer....
For Us is very odd and weird this film but maybe for Philippines people making a video and projects like that in schools is normal since MAYBE most of people there are just still used to Hand laundry and just does not have a washer, they're young guys also in a simulating project!
Putting softener in the dispenser after wash may be explainable by maybe a double rinse so they waited the wash spin to finish....
But as I said looks like they load with towels and pull out dried T shirts so I guess it was all acting and fake or speed up at least......
I'm not surprised to see TL or domestic machines in duty in an small or average hotel, as I said you actually can find plenty of them on duty in average or small hotels as for the fact of laundry being done in the hotel, is still widely used, also clothes and linens if you use a good detergent of course get sanitized ...
Rather is strange to me all the procedure as for picking up, delivery of clean stuff , no ironing etc.......
But again, don't forget we're talking about a video of a school project......
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Maybe they did not even turned on the washer....
For Us is very odd and weird this film but maybe for Philippines people making a video and projects like that in schools is normal since MAYBE most of people there are just still used to Hand laundry and just does not have a washer, they're young guys also in a simulating project!
Putting softener in the dispenser after wash may be explainable by maybe a double rinse so they waited the wash spin to finish....
But as I said looks like they load with towels and pull out dried T shirts so I guess it was all acting and fake or speed up at least......
I'm not surprised to see TL or domestic machines in duty in an small or average hotel, as I said you actually can find plenty of them on duty in average or small hotels as for the fact of laundry being done in the hotel, is still widely used, also clothes and linens if you use a good detergent of course get sanitized ...
Rather is strange to me all the procedure as for picking up, delivery of clean stuff , no ironing etc.......
But again, don't forget we're talking about a video of a school project......
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Always assuming that everyone is a potential disease carrier I find it interesting that the staff aren't using some form of PPE. Touching used linen and towels with one's bare hands and not wearing an apron makes for a quick and efficient way to spread communicabele diseases amongst staff and patrons alike.
arbilab
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Even the creaky moldy little motel I used in Long Beach had a good 30# commercial tumbler.
All I could see
was cross contamination, besides no gloves, she set soiled items on top of the machines and later set clean items where the soiled ones had been. This might be O.K at home with your own laundry, but not for this scene.
was cross contamination, besides no gloves, she set soiled items on top of the machines and later set clean items where the soiled ones had been. This might be O.K at home with your own laundry, but not for this scene.
Good points on the PPE and putting dirty items in places where the cleaned ones were put,too!Guess the safety officer wouldn't approve!Come to think of it my barber has a TL washer and a dryer for cleaning the haircut aprons and towels for wiping,shaving, he puts on you for your haircut.Didn't notice what kind they are-from the sound,though may be WP-KN DD.Probably with the DA agitator-you hear the "Clacka-clacka" sound as the washer agitates.
kenmoreguy89
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Nothing more true Stan, good point not sure about the HACCP in the Philippines, but probably these school guys does not even know what HACCP means I guess......
