5 MORE Guest Laundry Repairs Hotel Owners & Managers Should Know

Having broken laundry equipment costs your hotel money in terms of revenue generated and in repair expenses. I wrote a previous article about five repairs that you can do to save money and keep your guests happy.
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Below are five MORE quick fixes that you or someone on your staff should be able to handle:

6. Fix a broken door handle, door trim ring, door window
I know some of you are saying there are three things in this item rather than one.
In reality on todays frontloading washers all of these parts are replaced on the door with usually the same set of screws on the backside of the door



7. Replace a broken soap tray or tray parts
Soap trays often have dividers that break, drawer stops and retainer clips that break off causing the drawer to be able to be pulled all the way out, seals that go missing or get ripped off

8. Replace a broken door hook
Own a small chassis front loading washer? At some point a customer will have an unbalanced load in it and the door won’t open causing the customer to wrench the door open somehow to get their clothes out. The door hook is the little plastic piece that fits inside the door latch. Don’t worry the tabs are supposed to break off. Better to have to repair a small door hook than a whole door!

9. Replace a water valve in small chassis washers
A lot of screws and hoses need to be moved usually to get to these but another simple repair.

10. Clean the lint screens in the dryers
Besides vacuuming the lint traps and wiping them out daily I’m talking about cleaning the gunk out of the holes in the screen that gets stuck in there. There are several ways to do this and several cleaners that do a good job.

These are the basic items that if you can fix, it will save you a lot of money on service calls and lost revenue due to machines being down for a few days. You can find out how to do these fixes by looking at your favorite blog (like this one!), or watch online videos about on various channels or the manufacturer website.

Once you fix these different items, don’t get too cocky and think you are a major league repair technician. When you start thinking that way is when you will try and do a major repair and either won’t be able to figure it out and need to call a service tech anyways, or you’ll do something dumb and fry a UI board because you didn’t turn the power off. Trust me. I've done both of those things.

Ev

A Heck of A Nice Guy