Monday mornings, Brisbane winters and 8 degrees!

brrrrrr Brisbane winter mornings, sure have arrived with a windy blast this week!  8 degrees this morning out at the Laundromat!  Somehow the western suburbs of Brisbane always feels that chill a little more. So perfect coffee o'clock time!  Pop around to Abode Cafe and sit in the sun in the courtyard to warm up.  ahhhh that's the perfect way to warm the bones, looking up at Mt Cootha and out of the wind.  Love it!

I love winter and I love good coffee.  So we are feeling very spoilt having Abode Cafe in our little Centre.  And the temptations when the delicious baking smells waft down towards the laundromat.  Just have to pop up and see what's baking!  Lately I have been finding it hard to resist the delicious little 'lemon olive oil' cake.

Okay enough about the coffee and baked goods!  lol  

It's also a perfect morning for sitting next to our dryers, feeling the warm and surfing the net on our FREE WiFi.  This morning I found this beautiful photo on Pinterest.  Thought it captured this winter morning feeling of Brisbane.  Reminds me of watching my Mum hang the washing on windy July days.  

Enjoy your Brisbane winter day, in whatever warm little spot you can find out of the wind.

Karen

Monday morning 1955 made by Carol Suto

Looking for a Laundromat in Brisbane with something MORE?

Looking for a Laundromat in Brisbane with something more to offer?  Well.... Indooroopilly Laundromat can help!!  We are located in Brisbane, in the western suburbs of Taringa.  In fact we are tucked away in a quiet street, not far from Moggill Road, but feels like miles away from the crazy traffic and busy roads!  We just love our Laundromat, so we try to make sure our customers love it too.  We go the extra mile to put a smile on your face and make your laundry day less stressful.  
So here's how we give you something more:

• FREE Laundry Liquid and Fabric Softener.  High Quality Aussie made & owned ECO products available if you need them.
• FREE Fabric Spray.  Made by the same Company who makes our Laundry liquid and Fabric Softener.
• Top of the range *express* model Dexter machines.  Faster/Cleaner/Drier  Saving you time and money.
• FREE WiFi - yep, come in and get your Laundry done while catching up online.
• Television and remote.  Want peace and quiet?  Turn the TV down.  Want to watch a favourite show while your laundry is on?  Grab the remote, change the channel and enjoy.
• Lots of comfortable, clean and modern seating.  Plenty of ergonomic seating inside and a big long comfortable bench seat undercover outside. 
• Magazines.
• Side table for putting your coffee or cold drink on.  Or sitting your phone/tablet or laptop.
• Powerpoints for charging your devices.
• Change Machine, if you need $1 coins for the machines, don't worry our machine will accept $5, $10, $20 notes and give you coins.
• Open every day of the year, including Public Holidays 6.30 am - 9.00 pm.  On wet busy days, we stay open longer to help you out.
• BIG folding table.  Our big stainless steel table is wide and long.  Perfect for folding, organising and stacking your dried laundry.  Even better for folding a big doona or sheets.  With a shelf underneath for your baskets.
• Easy carparking right outside!! You can park on the street outside and on Sundays you can even park out the back, behind the laundromat.
• Bus Stop outside #414 Uni bus and #415 city bus on either side of the road from us.
• Toilet on site for customers use.
• Corner Store and Cafe in Centre.  Want a snack or a decent coffee...just walk up to the next shops and you will find all you need.  Abode Cafe is located in the lovely garden area behind the Corner store.  With all food made on site.
• Our machines are all modern, cleaned at least twice a day and no older than 3 years.  We sanitise and clean them daily and make sure that they are ready to go.  
• Just for a final something extra......grab a lolly.  Yep, we even keep a jar of your favourite treats, just to help make Laundry day a little sweeter ;)
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

Our Laundromat is cleaned twice a day.

Every day at least twice a day we clean our Laundromat at Taringa.  Our aim is to have the cleanest little laundry in Brisbane.  We love our customers to come in and find it clean, sparkly and ready to use.  Mornings and afternoons, every day of the week, we pop in and sweep, dust, wipe, polish and shine.  On busy, rainy days, we come more often just to make sure it's all spotless.  Yep, we LOVE our Laundry!

It also gives us a chance to chat to you, our customers.  We get great tips, compliments and sometimes we find out about the odd hiccup.  So cleaning our Laundromat has many pluses.   Including a perfectly good excuse to pop around the corner and grab a coffee and a treat from Abode Cafe!  lol

If ever you find the Laundry in need of a clean, never hesitate to send us a text and we will pop out as soon as we can.  

Geoff  0438 156 195
Karen 0458 587 886

 

 

 

The sad story of lost socks

Each day that we go in to our Laundromat, we see the heartbreaking site of a lonely, scared and single sock.  Yes, every day!  Sometimes we find them hiding in the washers, clinging to the side of the bowl.  Too frightened to let go.  Sometimes we find them in the bottom of the dryers, hot and bothered.  We sadly pick them up every day.  Lost, single socks.  It's a terrible sight as we add another lonely sock to the orphanage of lost socks in the Red Box.  
 
We hope that someone will come in and look for them, realise they are missing an important partner in life and check the 'Red Box'   We hope that they will be matched, reunited with their life partner and get back to their normal day to day life of keeping your feet warm.  

Sometimes we have customers who ring or ask us if we have seen 'the missing sock'  sometimes we have customers suggest we hang them from the ceiling so others may recognise them and take them happily home.  We are even tempted to put a clothes line up and display the sad features of lonely single socks.  A lost sock lineup.  

We have a fair gathering of these sad little guys, sometimes we have to try and pair them up.  It doesn't quite work and there is always just something a bit wrong and sad with it.  If we get close to a match, we could send them off to those who need socks.  A place where maybe they could be useful in life again.  ahhhh so sad.  We even have people offer to take them and turn them in to puppets!!  A cheap and tacky life?  Or would it allow our sad single sock a chance to make a little child happy with a soft sock toy? 

But sometimes, we just get so many, we have to put them down.  It just breaks our hearts.  So, please please have a heart, check your washing machine bowl for a little scared sock clinging to the side and check the dryer bowls for one hiding in the corner.  Just keep your little socks in mind.  And if the worst thing happens and you realise you have left one behind.....pop back in and check the 'Red Box'  sitting at the back of the Laundromat under the shelf.  I am sure your little guys will be ecstatic to be matched together again!  Not put out to cheap, dirty sock labour as a cleaning rag.  Thank you. 

Tips for washing Doonas

This is our most viewed and favourite Tip about Doona washing, from the History of blogging about our Laundromat.  And what a perfect time to repost it.  Just as Brisbane is expected to drop in the single figures for morning Temperatures brrrrr!  So, enjoy and we hope this helps get your Doona's and Blankets snuggly clean for the chill.

Tips for washing your Doona's

* Remember all our Dexter machines have PayWave
We recommend that you can wash a Double, Queen or King Doona, King/Queen blankets or thick underlays/mattress protectors in our Dexter Maxi Front load machine $14.00 - 25 mins approx.  Or even a queen Doona will fit in our Dexter Triple load.  You can fit a Single or 'thin' double/queen in the Double Express Front Load machines.   

** Please do NOT try to cram doona's or big bulky blankets, mattress protectors in to the Top Loaders.  They will not fit in loosely enough to wash properly and you will sadly end up with a doona full of detergent.  :/

It is best if you wash Doona's on there own and not mixed with other clothing or towels.  The fillings of Doona's are thick and soak up alot of water.  Fit your Doona in so that you can still slide your hand in above the Doona at the top inside.  As the doona fills with water it will condense slightly, this will allow a good amount of movement and water coverage.   This means that you will get the 'best' cleanest wash.  Do not put any more than 1 cap of detergent in with Doona's or blankets - LESS is BEST for heavy items like this.  We recommend a WARM Wash setting.  As you close the door, check to make sure no material is hanging out to be caught between door and seal.  

~Always ....Check your doona instructions as to what temperature to set the wash, and if they can be placed in dryers ~

Big pink fluffy blanket in the Express Triple

If you are drying your Doona or Blanket - check the label first.  Start your drying on a MEDIUM temperature setting.  We recommend that you STOP the dryer and check the doona about 5 minutes in.  Make sure the doona is not getting too hot.  You can then close the door and 'press' the RESTART button.  The slowest part to dry on your Doona will always be around the seems and edges, where material is thickest.  
Karen and Geoff 





 

Did you know we are an *Express* Laundromat?

Did you know that we are an *Express* Laundromat?  Dexter produces two different types of Front load washers - the *Express* and the Standard Dexter Front loader?  When researching which machines to purchase to upgrade our old top loaders in the Laundromat.  A few vital factors came in to play.  
Here is what we listed as our 'must haves'....

1.  We needed water efficient machines to be Eco Friendly
2.  We needed reliability and excellent build quality
3.  We needed machines that were easy to use for everyone
4.  We needed energy efficient machines to be Eco Friendly
5.  We needed fast machines, that got our customers washing done quickly
6.  We needed a machine that gave *great* results every time
7.  We needed machines that were detergent efficient
8.  We needed the 'Best of the Best' we could get

We knew Dexter Laundry Equipment from the USA came top of the list for commercial laundromat equipment.  They topped out in build quality, reliability, ease of use, water and energy efficient and very detergent efficient.  Our next choice was did we go 'top of the range' and purchase the more expensive *Express* models that have the 200 G Force extraction spin?  Or the standard Dexter Front loader?  Both were good, however the *Express*  was even better!

Look for the RED Express LOGO

Standard Washer - no Express

Why? Because we decided we wanted our customers to not only get the best results, but good value for money in our Laundromat.  By purchasing the more expensive *Express* models we now have machines that spin your clothes drier, reducing the time needed in the *Express* Dryers - therefore saving you time and money.  Happy customers = happy us. 

Added benefits are it allows more customers to move more quickly in and out of our laundry.  Even though we have created a roomy, comfortable space with lots of free entertainment and chill out options....and you may be happy to sit longer.  We wanted to make sure if you were #timeshort  you could just 'get it done'

We LOVE Feedback!

We love chatting to our customers, we love receiving feedback on our little Laundromat.  We love our Laundromat and we hope you do too?

So, if you have used us and love how clean and modern we are.  Enjoyed the comfortable seating and surrounds.  Loved the fast *express* Dexter Frontloaders.  Kept entertained by the Television, Free Wifi and magazines.  Got in and out quicker than you thought your Laundry day would take.  Or have some suggestions or feedback on how to make our Laundry even better. And particularly if you have ever had a problem or even just a question.

Then please let us know!!  You can call us, email us or leave us Feedback, Rate us, Review us, Star us!!

"Our aim has always been to provide our customers with a clean, modern, friendly and super fast easy experience at affordable prices"   

A place to get the Laundry done easily and quickly.  Somewhere to enjoy a coffee from Abode Cafe, have some quiet time or a social chat with other locals and customers.  Get the weekly wash chores done in around an hour!  Making Laundry a non-chore!

After nearly 18 years of owning Indooroopilly Laundromat, we've got to know many locals, regulars and businesses.  It's part of why we LOVE our Laundry.  We hope to continue to provide and improve for many years to come. 
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Happy Queensland Day!

Photo The Courier Mail 6.6.14

Happy Queensland Day, Queenslanders!!  Don't you just love it?  Our home, beautiful one day, stunning the next.  Well, it certainly seems like that lately.  Our winter weather is just sublime and who can complain about 24 degree June days.  

Did you know?  In 1851 the push for separation from New South Wales gained momentum.   Queen Victoria was approached to consider establishing a separate colony based at Moreton Bay. The Queen gave her approval and signed the letters patent on 6 June 1859. On the same day an Order-in-Council gave Queensland its own Constitution and became a self-governing colony with its own Governor.  For more information go to:  Gov House - Qld Day page

What's On!  To help you enjoy the day....

Lantern Parade Walk Southbank   

State Library Qld - David Malouf 

So, whatever you do Queenslanders, on this fine Queensland Day....enjoy it!  Even if it is doing the Laundry lol  

The Hillsdon Family:  Elize Jane Hillsdon. Left to right: Smith, Floernce Annie, Fornt: Joy Gertrude Hillsdon, Alice Hillsdon, Percy Hillsdon. Photograph was taken outside their home in Hillsdon Road, Taringa.

Taken in 1896

Relax, we're making your life more comfortable!

We all know you just can't escape the Laundry day chores, every week there it is waiting for you. ho hum  If you are trying to find a way to make that chore of laundry easier....bring it down to our Laundromat and spend a very comfortable hour, while your laundry is zipping through our *express* Dexter machines.  23 minutes washed!  Approx 30 mins drying time! 

And now to make you time at our laundry even more comfortable....we have just replaced our old chairs with new modular black ones.  Tested for comfort by me!  Yes, I sat in them in the showroom for ages....i think I had the staff concerned lol!  We just had to find something smart looking, comfortable to sit on for about an hour and that gave each customer a little bit extra personal space.  It's taken us a while to find replacements for the good old white plastic chairs. They served their time well...but they were due for an upgrade!

Now with the new chairs, you can sit, relax, watch television, use our FREE WiFi, read the magazines, a book or just enjoy a coffee and use your smart devices.  Yes, we even provide power points so you can charge them while you are there!!   Remember... we also have free 'eco' laundry liquid and fabric softener available if you need it.  Cleaned twice a day, we hope you find Indooroopilly Laundromat, spotless, comfortable, roomy and easy to use.....best of all FAST!   

Well that is if you want to get out of there fast, you might just be enjoying that 'little quiet, relaxing and productive time'  DOING the Laundry!


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