Clean Show 2025 Snippets

 

If you were not able to attend Clean Show 2025, here is a quick eight minute movie using iPhone Live images clipped together into a video showing some products, companies, people, and even a little food from the event in a rapid fire motion.
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Clean Show 2025 Snippets

 

Clean Show 2025 was a fun and educational event for me.
Below is an eight minute video made up of iPhone Live Images and a few video snippets to show the vastness and amount of companies and products available to see.
If you haven't been to a Clean Show before I recommend you go to at least one in your ownership lifetime.
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Quick moving 8 minute video

New Huebsch 55# dryer

Huebsch Command demo

New Maytag hardmount washer lineup

New Wascomat touch screen controls

An oldie but a goodie...

Laundromat Health Inspection List

 

Being a laundromat owner you might have to face an inspection from your local health department, neighborhood services department, licensing department, or some other government agency in your community. What are they looking for? Generally it is that your mat is safe and complies with local ordinances. What are some of the things they are looking for:

1. clean

2. bathroom fixtures in good working order

3. exit signs light up

4. door unlocks when building power is off

5. light fixtures covered

6. fire extinguishers in good order and tagged with proper certification

7. licenses are displayed

8. lint traps clean

9. dryer room free of lint

10. outside lights work

11. door for boiler room closes and latches automatically

12. no bugs and vermin

13. cracks in the floor or other tripping hazards

14. water back flow devices installed for outside faucets

15. water pipes labeled potable/non-potable

16. phone number listed for emergency or refund situations

17. Anything else the inspector wants to look for!

Some areas have dedicated inspectors for laundromats. These officials will usually look for more laundromat specific items. Other communities have inspectors that look at residences in addition to laundromats so they might look at other items more specific to those buildings. Get to know your inspector. Treat them with respect and remember they are doing their job so correct what they tell you.

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Clean Washer Door Seals

 

I've written before about cleaning your washer doors.
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Evidently the pictures I used in the article weren't graphic enough so people have asked me to put it in a video. Here it is in all its goopy glory:

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Importance of Finding Leaks

 

Water is expensive!

Look for leaks to save water and save money!

Here are three short videos I made to help you find where to look for leaks:

Importance of Finding Leaks

Fix Running Toilet

Oops forgot to connect hose!

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Programming Cycle Modifiers Touch Screen Washers

 

The sixish minute length video below is a quick run through on how to program the cycle modifiers on a Huebsch touch screen washer. A similar process is used for Speed Queen and other Alliance products.

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WASH Milwaukee Open House May 2025

 

A big THANK YOU to everyone that attended WASH Milwaukee's first open house and service school this past May 16. It was the first time since 2017 that WASH put on an event and it was well received with 38 laundromat owners and some members of their staffs attending throughout the day. There were also partner companies like Presso, SpyderWash, and Kiosoft attending onsite and representation from High Mark, Laundroworks, and PayRange also in house.

It was fun to see everyone and some great prizes were given away.
 I hope everyone learned something valuable to take back to your mat or laundry room regarding washer and dryer maintenance courtesy of Alliance and their staff technicians.

 I even got to do a brief presentation and play emcee! 
That alone was worth the price of admission...in my humble opinion...but I might be a little bit biased.

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LG Tech Line

 

If you need help from LG here is their new tech line numbers:

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New Equipment Purchase Check List

Before you buy new equipment for your laundry room or laundromat, here are some questions to go over and answer in order to make sure you can do the project you think you are going to do.
Your equipment distributor should ask the same questions, but if you can have as many of these answers as possible it will help the process.
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Company

Ship To:

Address

City/St/Zip

Phone

Email

Existing Machines
please list size or model numbers if possible, including electrical requirements

Washers

Dryers

Current Pounds of Laundry per day

Future Pounds of Laundry per day

best to plan for busiest time

Notes include things like hours/day, turns/day with existing, goals, etc

Rooms Specifications

Room x

Height of Room

Ground Floor?

Door Width

1.

2.

3.

Removable Door Jams?

Max width removed

Door Height

1.

2.

3.

Any Steps and how many?

YES   NO

Washer Installation

Concrete Pad

YES    NO

Base Details how thick of concrete

height, condition

Steel Base

YES    NO

floor thickness?

Water/Drain Service

Ozone installed or of interest?

YES    NO

Direct drain

or

Drain Trough

please list number of hot/cold water lines including size 1/2", 3/4", etc

please list drain size, trough information, drain height requirement

Gas Service

Is it hard piped or flex lines? Number of Shutoffs? Can it be shut off?

Gas    Propane

Electrical Service

please list existing electrical capabilities, 1 or 3ph washer? 1 or 3 ph dryer? Hard wired? Cords?

Notes

Notes

Venting/Makeup Air

please list number of vents, size, make up air? How big? Condition of vent, how long is vent run?

Notes

Change Maytag MHN33 or MHN30 Door Lock Assembly

 

Below is a video and picture by picture instructions on how to change a broken door lock assembly for Maytag small chassis washers like the MHN33 and MHN30.
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If you can't watch the video follow the steps below:

When a customer can't close and latch the door and you see the door latch looking like this you know you'll have to replace the door lock assembly.

Start by removing the spring around the door boot with a pliers or screw driver

Remove the door boot so you can place your hand inside the cabinet to reach the assembly


Unscrew the two screws above and below the door strike. If the assembly is broken you might need to hold it tight to the inside of the cabinet to get the screw out

Reach inside and grab the assembly. Lift UPWARDS first and then pull the whole assembly to the door opening. There is not much slack

There are four plugs to undo. The top plug with black wires

Blue wire in middle is hardest because it is the smallest and has a catch you need to push out of the way in order to get the plug out as it is very easy to pull the wires out of the plug

Pink wire in middle
Big white plug on bottom

Most common areas for these to break

A complete unit

Reattach wires and place back inside cabinet.
This time angle the assembly so the catch inside the cabinet grabs on to the assembly to hold it in place. Remember this is why when you removed the broken assembly you had to lift the assembly UP first

If you can't get the assembly to hook onto the catch just hold it so the door strike is through the cabinet

Screw assembly in

Move door boot back over the edge of the door opening ad place the door spring back around it to hold it in place. VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

Door lock assembly replaced and ready to wash