Laundry Room Rule #2: Keep It Well Lit

Whether you have a laundry room for tenants or for your business, the four rules for making that laundry room a success are:

1.       Keep it clean

2.       Keep the room well lit

3.       Keep the room safe

4.       Keep the machines working

Recently I was tasked to do some maintenance on the washer and dryer at this location.

If you watch the video below, what rule above did the landlords break?

If you guessed rule #2 you are correct!

Unfortunately the flashlight on my cell phone was broken.

I was required to complete the service call, so in order for me to see, I turned on the camera flash and took pictures. I kept one eye closed to not ruin my night vision.

The camera flashed and I would walk to a spot that I saw in the flash.

I would then take another picture and advance towards the machines again until I got to them.

By the time I got to the machines I saw the light switch on a pull string. I pulled it but the light didn't work!

Fortunately the only task I was required to do for these machines was put a new sticker on them to let people know the new phone number to call if the machines needed repair.

I turned around and left.

The pictures below are the ones that I took using the flash to see.

There was no light in the stairway. This is the wall going downstairs:

The bottom of the steps without flash:

Bottom of the steps with flash:

Here is the corner of the door where the machines are:

This is the laundry room without lights:

Me approaching the washer:

Now you might be asking why I still went downstairs with no lights and once I was downstairs and had no light why I still tried to do my job. I do admit it was something out of a horror movie where the one actor knows they shouldn't do something, but they do it anyways and get killed by the bad guy.

It did cross my mind and I wondered what or who else I might find down there. The sense of adventure got me. 

It all comes out in...the WASHTub!

Ev

A Heck of  A Nice Guy

4 rules for a successful Laundry Room: #1 Keep It Clean

 

4 rules for a successful Laundry Room: Keep It Clean

 Whether you have a laundry room for tenants or for your business, 

the four rules for making that laundry room a success are:

1.       Keep it clean

2.       Keep the room well lit

3.       Keep the room safe

4.       Keep the machines working

This one is easy. Would you rather wash your clothes in a laundry room that has human excrement on the floor, or a room that smelled nice and when you touched the equipment you didn't have scum on your fingers? The pictures below are from a real laundry room I was sent to do a repair in. Feces and urine on the floor. Even a dead rat! I don't need to keep going why the laundry room needs to be cleaned after looking at these pictures do I?

Ev
A Heck of A Nice Guy 

Restting DAS on Maytag Washers and Dryers

 

Have you ever seen "DAS" or "das" show up on your display board on your Maytag washers or dryers?
Here is how you get rid of that thanks to the WASH Commercial Laundry technician staff:

Ev

RESETTING DAS MODE ON MAYTAG CONTROL BOARDS

MHN33, MAT20, MLx22, MDx20, MDx28 

1. Power machine OFF, then back ON: “Sync” appears, then disappears
2. Press buttons in this sequence:
• MHN33 – Delicates / PowerWash / Delicates / Normal / PowerWash + Delicates
• MAT20 – Delicates / PowerWash / Delicates / Mixed / PowerWash + Delicates
• MLx22 – Delicates / PowerWash / Delicates / Normal / PowerWash + Delicates
• MDx20/28 – Delicates / Whites&Colors / Delicates / Perm Press / Delicates + Whites&Colors
3. “HHHHHHHH” will appear
4. Press buttons in this sequence:
• MHN33 – Delicates / Delicates / Delicates / PowerWash + Delicates
• MAT20 – PowerWash / PowerWash / PowerWash / PowerWash + Delicates
• MLx22 – Delicates / Delicates / Delicates / PowerWash + Delicates
• MDx20/28 – Delicates / Delicates / Delicates / Delicates / Delicates + Whites&Colors
5. “RES” will appear if successful
6. Power OFF, then power ON
7. Unit has been reset to factory default settings

MHN30, MAH22, MVW18 (using buttons on left)
1. Power machine OFF, then back ON: “Sync” appears, then disappears
2. Press bottom row buttons in this sequence: right/left/right/middle/left + right
3. “HHHHHHHH” will appear
4. Press bottom row buttons in this sequence: left/left/left/left + right
5. “RES” will appear if successful
6. Power OFF, then power ON
7. Unit has been reset to factory default settings

Method #1 for other models:
1. Open service switch (OMIT for MFRxxPDATS)
2. Disconnect power from machine (unplug)
3. Restore power
4. Hold DELICATES button until board flashes
5. Open door/lid
6. Close service switch
 ***The next sequence must be done within 6 seconds***
Washers and stack dryers - use the lower-case buttons, single dryers only have 3 buttons
7. Press buttons in this order: left/middle/left/middle/left/right
8. Remove power from machine (unplug)
9. Restore power and release service switch;
if done correctly the “dAS” will be gone and the board will ready to program as normal

MLG dryers
1. Put unit into programming mode
2. Go to Factory Settings
3. Enter password using buttons in this sequence: left/middle/left/middle/right/middle/left
4. Program board as needed; make sure to select correct configuration (example: gas, non-reversing)

Method #2 for other models:
1. Open service switch
2. Remove wire from coin vault switch
3. Close lid/door
4. Remove the coin drop (do not disconnect from the board)
5. Remove power from machine for 6 seconds
6. Restore power
7. Hold the DELICATES button until board flashes
8. Block coin optic for 1 second or more
9. Unblock the coin optic
10.Open lid/door
11.Closed service switch
***The next sequence must be done within 6 seconds***
Washers and stack dryers - use the lower-case buttons, single dryers only have 3 buttons
12.Press buttons in this order: Left/middle/left/middle/left/right
13.Remove power from the machine
14.Restore power;
if done correctly the “dAS” will be gone and the board will be ready to program as normal

Everet's Laundry Newsletter June 2022

June 2022 is here. If you missed some articles from my blog, Just click on a link. Here are three ideas for you this month:

You might not ever need or want to buy something from me, however this recent interaction I had proves why...
why-we-need-human-salespeople

Why should you read my blog on occassion?
Here is the answer!
why-read-this-blog.html 

This is an article from a few years ago from my past career. If you have someone that is interested in working for you, they might request an informational interview, or you can offer an informational interview. Either way it is sort of a "try before you buy" or "interview before the interview."
I can be a good way to keep a line of prospects for future openings:
informational-interviewing

Ev
A Heck of A Nice Guy

 

 

 

The Gettysburg Address

Without America, none of us would be here.
I love my country!
Ev
A Heck of a Patriotic Guy

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
 
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.