Saturday, November 13, 2010

Laundry at Concordia via Heidelberg

There is two resident floors to Concordia's Heidelberg building. Below these two floors is one small, hot and dingy room my friends call the "laundry dungeon". It's a small little room with bugs, dust and a couple misplaced clothing items (currently a pair of socks and a t-shirt). But that is not something to blog about. How the washers and dryers in this dungeon work is.
The washing machines, have six choices of cycles and wash your clothes pretty fast, normally within 37 minutes. The quality of wash is as good as expected for a small commercial washing machine, and it seems to be fairly water-efficient. But the dryers are a different story all together. The dryers take between 30 and 60 minutes to dry your smallest loads- and if you have your bed sheets in there, be expected to be waiting awhile for them to be dry! Not to mention how the inside of the dryers smell like burnt plastic, which gets it's way into your clothing smelling them up.
Now I can get over the stinky dryers and the small washers, but the two working together are just frustrating.
Since the washers do not take very long to wash, and the dryers take so long to dry, there is always a line to get your clothes from washer to dryer. Also, if you are not down in the dungeon to get your clothes out of the dryer right away, they get taken out and put on the table- just the place for bugs and other people to get into. Theft seems to be a problem in this room too because of the commuter's lounge not far away.
A simple suggestion for Concordia would be to put another dryer into this room, but not before it is cleaned! I think this would cause less theft due to less clothing lying around, and hopefully a faster routine from washer to dryer. Also, maybe adding another washer and dryer into this room would be a good addition. There is lots of girls that use the four washers and four dryers in the dungeon, and I think it would help with the theft and take the frustration out of cleaning your clothes--which was a calming job for me to do until I started doing laundry in the Heidelberg laundry room.

2 comments:

Benjamin Fink said...

haha how crazy

Anonymous said...

I'm amazed at how inefficient the dryers are here. I put my clothes in for 90 minute cycles and they will still be noticeably damp.