Hogan's Corner Laundromat

I’ll check with the attendant and audit the machine you were using. I’m glad we offered to let you use another machine but I know that makes for a long day.

Considering our water settings, I can’t understand how the clothing would only be half wet. I’m sorry to suggest the machine may have been overloaded. At your new location I’m going to recommend you split your load or use a larger machine. Half wet and spots that don’t come out indicate there’s no room in the machine for agitation.

For our top loaders, the dry weight of the clothes should not exceed 14lbs. Our larger machines can handle 40lbs and we have a 60lb machine.

If that’s not the case for your situation, I’m sorry I don’t have a better suggestion. And I’m sorry to hear about your experience at our store.

Thanks for the posting Sarah. We appreciate it. The store does have free Wifi. Password protected with the password visible on the office door window. Sorry that wasn’t more obvious.

Thank you very much for the kind review Jerek. We really put a lot of work into keeping it clean. We know that's important to you folks who want to walk out with clean clothes so a clean store seems like a natural extension of that. And I'm especially glad to hear how amazing our team is.

Thanks for the rating and comments Phosphurus willy. We're pretty excited about all the machines, big and small, in the BIG room. They're all pretty new and work extremely well. … More

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and review Lisa.

Not disagreeing that the cost of a small washer is $5.50 but we do think it’s a fair price and we think you’ll notice that there are very few laundromats in Seattle. This is the price just to maintain the business. If it were “lucrative”, there would be as many laundromats as coffee houses.

Urban water prices are not subsidized like water outside the city. When you visit a wash house with low washer prices outside an urban area, it’s no doubt a town/water district with subsidized water.

We don’t think $5.50 is crazy though in the perspective of what a person gets ….a full week, 7 days, of clean cloths. A simple burger and drink from down the road is almost $10 and only satisfies for a few hours. 7 days vs 6 hours of utility and those clean clothes make you feel better each day you put them on.

We also appreciate that Seattle has the 3rd highest minimum wage in the whole country, provides sick leave for team members, and WA state has chosen to use property taxes, in lieu of income taxes, to pay its bills. That means our laundromat property taxes fund the state instead of the folks with higher incomes. (Furthermore, we are taxed to ‘highest and best use’, meaning our taxes are even higher than they should be for a small laundromat because they want the building converted to a multistory apartment building which pays even more property taxes.)

What we do provide with that price though is a SAFE and CLEAN environment and a STAFFED store. There is always an ATTENDANT in our store. A number of laundromats are unattended (to save on cost) so their machines are not maintained or cleaned. You don’t know if you’re about to use a dirty or broken machine.

You can also feel SAFE in our store.
We are there, in the store, with you. Always available for questions and to help.

We know $5.50 is a big number but it’s the necessary number to maintain a laundromat in Seattle and we also think that it’s a fair price for everything that you get.

Sorry that's confusing Angel. The stickers on the machines say the debit/credit is more expensive than cash....just like a gas station. There should be a sticker on each and every machine communicating that. … More