Industrial Laundry Service

[toggleswitch]

Today as part of my job, I inspected an industrial building.
20,000 glorious square feet dedicated to a laundry and dry-cleaning service with major industrial laundry equipment!

All comments are welcome.

In theory I was looking at the building! HA!

Gas-fired steam generators with power-burners!

 

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Washers.

 

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washers-continued

 

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dryers

 

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dryers

 

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There was something tumbling behind that port-hole!

 

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I was shocked as heck to see two modern GE top-loaders as well.

I guess there are times when you really need things CLEAN! (Ducks and runs!)

That's all folks.

 

[toggleswitch]

I should have snatched a maid's uniform for Halloween!

The building BTW has 3,000 amp 3-phase electrical service and a 12" (30cm) gas-main.

Is smelled so good in there between the steam and the clean clothing!

 

[DADoES]

But what was the ambient temp?

 

[toggleswitch]

I was so mesmerized I barely noticed the indoor temp!

Today was

65*F out
80*F in this place

It is my understanding that no heating is required in the winter.

There is no A/C at except in the offices!

 

[launderess]

Even most laundromats rarely have AC, it just is not cost effective to run them with dryers going all the while. Well then again suppose that would depend upon what energy costs are in the area.

Large commercial laundries don't need heating. *LOL*
Who needs to spend money on heating when one has all those dryers, steam boilers, ironers, mangles and so forth running.

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[sudsmaster]

Don't some large laundries use co-generation to try to recapture some of the energy? There are also things like using the drain line to pre-warm incoming water. Still, not a place I'd like to be during a heat wave.

My backyard shop has one of those gas heaters with a fan suspended from the rafters. Never had it running, though, as it would be hugely expensive to try to heat that place in the winter. It was built in the 60's, when energy was much cheaper (gas was less than $.50/gallon, as I recall). I suspect the two Miele washers in there will be the sole source of heat during this winter ;-).

 

[launderess]

Laundromats here usually use of of those huge above the door mounted fans to pull out the hot air, and if possible open a back door and or window for cross ventilation. Problem is during a heatwave or very not and humid day all that fan does is pull hot moist air in to the laundromat, where it gets heated even more and loaded with yet more moisture, then pushed out the front. Rather like standing in the exhaust flow of a dryer.

Cannot imagine large commercial laundries bothering with heating if they have much steam equipment going full blast. While those loading and unloading washing machines, and other workers might get "cold", think of the poor pressers and ironers.

 

[toggleswitch]

see and I thought the heat was from the mamasitas dancing wh

I'd a thunk they'd need a little supplementation when it is negative to teens out, especially at night. Or if the place closes at night.

But maybe the place has three shifts and fuctions 'round the clock!

 

[toggleswitch]

An average sized dryer, say in a laundromat, uses gas to enerate 60,000 to 100,000 BTU/hr. A gas home-style dryer uses 22,000 BTU/hr.
As a point of reference, the typical gas burner on a stove is 9,000 to 12,000 BTU/Hr with a SUPER-FAST burner at 15,000 BTU/hr.
A typical room needs 4,000 to 6,000 BTU/hr to cool it.

So, I'd be curious to learn what those huge Wascomats dryers are fired-up at.

British thermal unit - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Reversing action dryer?

Wascomat

http://www.wascomat.net/docs/sect03/inst_td.jsp