Washing loathing mummies - would you pay for a home laundry service?

[lucielou74]

Hi all

I'm currently toying with an idea to start up a home laundry service after one of my customers (I do domestic cleaning) mentioned we didn't have any laundry service in our village. So my question is, would you pay for such service? I.e. to have your washing collected, washed, dried and folded, and dropped off again.What do you think about £15.00 per 7/8kg load - too much? Not enough? Ok?

I know there is a huge demand for domestic cleaning but no idea about laundry. Any opinions/suggestions most welcome.

Thank you xx

I wouldn't trust a service to look after my clothes. I'd quite like it for sheets and towels though. The sheets would have to be ironed too because I'd never do that myself so there would be an element of luxury to it.

Err I paid a fortune for this service just the other day. I'd definitely go ahead and offer it/promote it, you don't know how much take up you'd get, and presumably wouldn't have much set up costs.

I think pushed working mums might be the target. I needed it as washing machine broke and had no clothes for work and school, and not a spare minute to get to a laundrette. Was a real life saver as did same day service. Only downside was astronomical cost. Think it was £9 per kg

No I wouldn't pay anyone - washing and drying is the easy part! It's the ironing and putting it away that takes the time.

I have a housekeeper who does all washing, laundry and sorting and putting away, changes the beds it's £8.50 an hour, she does 8 hours a week, which is laundry, tidying and cleaning and bed changes. But then I'm in Northumberland so maybe the buck goes further?!

Sticking it in the washing machine and drier is easy. Sorting and putting it away takes time. I have 2 dc and we have a decent sized house and utility room and garden so plenty of room to dry any delicates.

However if I was childless and living in a house share or small flat with limited facilities and time , I'd go for it then. When I lived in Hong Kong this was the norm and that was how I did all my laundry.

Id love this. Washing is the bane of my life, piles of it everywhere. But I probably do 10 loads a week, so that's £100 a week. I'll have to stick to doing my own :(