November 5, 2013
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Avoid Extra Ironing With This Quick Tip!

Welcome back! In a previous post, we talked about laundry and how most everyone hates dealing with it! Our coin laundry in Raleigh NC, Laundry Express, offered tips to help laundry chores go by quickly, rather than taking all day long to complete. Take a look at the first few tips, here. Below, we continue our tips to help lighten the laundry load!

Coin Laundry Raleigh NC: Our laundry tips will help you spend less time on laundry and more time with family!

Quickly un-wrinkle clothing – OK, remember the tip to set a reminder in our last post? Say you do remember to switch clothes from the washer to the dryer, but forgot to set the timer to remind you to get them out of the dryer (it happens, we understand!) You’ll probably end up with a wrinkly mess of tangled laundry. Don’t worry; dampen a washcloth with a bit of water and toss it into the dryer with your wrinkled mess. Turn the dryer on to hot and continue to dry them for about 10-15 minutes. The damp washcloth will help to unwrinkled the load of laundry!

Little tips that help keep you’re laundry under control can make all the difference in life! No one wants to spend precious time away from family doing mountains upon mountains of laundry on the weekends! That’s why our Raleigh Laundromat offers great tips to help you get laundry efforts organized! If you’d like to see more laundry tips, visit our posts here and here!

Coin Laundry Raleigh NC | Add a Special Treat to Your Sheets!

Add Lavender Oil to the Rinse Cycle – Before your sheets and other bed linens are finished washing, try adding 2 or 3 drops of lavender oil to the rinse cycle. They’ll come out of the dryer smelling fresh and will help your family sleep better at night!

If your sheets, comforters, and other bed linens are too large for your washer and dryer at home, consider bringing them to our Raleigh laundromat, Laundry Express. We will wash all your larger laundry items for you! Be sure to take a look at all the laundry services we offer, as well as our coin laundry in Raleigh NC,  and contact us with any questions!

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November 1, 2013
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Tips to Quicken Laundry Chores

Tips to quicken your laundry chores by Raleigh Laundromat, Laundry Express, will keep you caught up on all your laundry!

Laundry chores in a house full of people can be quite challenging.  When a load of laundry is put off, it’s hectic trying to catch up. Below, you’ll find some really great tips that actually lessen your time on laundry!

Raleigh Laundromat | Tips to Lessen Time Spent on Laundry!

Wash often – Having a designated laundry day tends to be too much to handle. Especially if you have children, one laundry day a week can end up taking you a full eight or more hours! Instead, try washing a load a day. Even if you don’t have enough laundry to do every single day, do a small load a few times a week! Throwing in a load of towels while you pick the kids up from school and then drying them when you get back can make a big difference. You can fold them while you watch your nightly TV show!

Set reminders – It’s a given, that if you choose to start washing a small load of laundry every day or few days, that you’ll more than likely forget they’re in the washer. Or, you’ll forget they’re in the dryer. Until you get in the swing of multiple laundry days, this will happen and happen often! Instead of having to re-wash or iron your life away, start setting timers on your cell phone. That way, you’ll never forget to change over the laundry or fold and hang the freshly dried clothing!

Laundry is never fun, yet it must be done. We hope that our Raleigh laundromat can help, either with our laundry tips or with our laundry services. Laundry Express wants to help you get your laundry done! We offer many different laundry services, including:

  • Onsite stain specialist
  • Pick up or drop off dry cleaning
  • Pet laundry for dogs, cats, and other animals
  • Bedspreads
  • Comforters
  • Rugs
  • Table Cloths

If you have any questions, or would like to find out more about our Raleigh laundromat, contact us!

 

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October 25, 2013
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DIY Laundry Detergent

DIY Laundry Detergent made easy with help from Laundry Services in Raleigh NC!

Have you ever been to a Raleigh NC store to purchase laundry detergent and been baffled by the prices of a brand name detergents? If so, you might want to think about making your own. Yes, it’s actually possible to make your own laundry detergent! Below, you’ll find a step-by-step, DIY laundry detergent how-to that works great for fighting stains, brightening whites, and overall laundry washing.
What you’ll need:
  • 4  Cups – tap water
  • 1 Fels-Naptha soap bar
  • 1 Cup – Washing Soda
  • ½ Cup Borax
  • 5 gallon bucket
  • Extra water
Preparation:
  1. Grate the bar of soap and add to a saucepan on the stove,  with the 4 cups of water.
  2. Stir mixture continually, over medium-low heat, until the soap dissolves completely.
  3. Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water.
  4. Add melted soap and water mixture while it’s still hot, then add washing soda and Borax.
  5. Stir well until all of the powder is dissolved completely.
  6. Fill the bucket to top with more hot tap water. Stir, cover and let the entire mixture sit in the bucket overnight. The mixture will thicken.
  7. Stir well, then fill a used, clean, laundry soap dispenser half full with soap.
  8.  Fill the rest of way with water. Shake well before each use. The mixture will thicken each time it sits for a long period of time.
This DIY laundry detergent makes 10 gallons. The end product is concentrated so it must be mixed with water before using.

You can also add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons once the soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

Recommended Usage:

Top Load Machine- 5/8 cups per load

Front Load Machines- ¼ cup per load

Laundry Services Raleigh NC |  DIY Laundry Detergent

Laundry Express loves sharing laundry tips and how-tos with you! For more laundry tips, be sure to visit our previous posts. In addition to our laundry tips, we also offer extensive laundry services in Raleigh NC for all your needs. Laundry Express will launder your sheets, comforters, pet linens, and more! For a further look at all the services we offer, visit our services page. If you have any questions about our Raleigh Laundromat, please feel free to call us

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October 20, 2013
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Get That Mountain of Laundry Under Control!

Coin Laundry in Raleigh NC: Laundry Express offers laundry tips!

Sometimes, we let our laundry go. Life, school, work, and other events tend to take up more of our time than we actually have to give. Laundry is usually the last thing we want to worry about at that point. We do however still have to deal with the ever-growing mountain of clothes and towels that have made its home in the laundry room or your closet. Below are a few great tips to help you get going on that laundry before it gets completely out of hand!

Eliminate the giant basket in your closet or laundry room that can hold large amounts of clothing. It can be overwhelming and a big trap. The more you put in it, the more you have to wash!  Put a smaller laundry basket in each bedroom or bathroom.  Avoid having one large hamper that everyone uses. Break it up; small loads means shorter drying and folding time!

Organize your laundry room with shelves and baskets for storage. If your laundry room is cheery and organized, you might want to be in there for longer than a few minutes. You can even give the room a fresh coat of bright paint. Laundry rooms that look like dungeons give you one more reason to want to avoid going in there!

Spills and stains can really throw a wrench into your laundry routine. Having to stop and look for stains is difficult and time consuming. Try having a “stained” basket in the laundry room for those items of clothing that need a little extra care. Whenever you see there is a garment in the basket, go ahead and pretreat it, and put it back in the basket for later. Better yet, teach your family to pretreat the stain before they put it in the basket!!

Instead of having one large laundry day, break the loads up. Dividing your weekly washing loads into several different days will help to make this unenjoyable chore a bit less overwhelming.

Coin Laundry in Raleigh NC | Products Matter!

Use laundry products that have been proven to work for you. It’s easy to purchase whatever’s on sale at the store. Find products that work well, and keep them on hand. When that brand is on sale, stock up! You’ll find yourself washing less if the products you use actually do the job they say they will!

Laundry is a job that many people dislike. Thankfully, Laundry Express is a coin laundry in Raleigh NC  that helps you do your laundry! We do offer a traditional Laundromat, but we also offer other laundry services to the Raleigh NC area! Bring your clothes to us and we will wash them for you!

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October 12, 2013
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Easy Laundry Tips and Tricks

Raleigh Laundromat: Easy laundry tips and tricks!

Laundry Express is back with just a few more tips and tricks that will make your laundry efforts easy and less time consuming! Be sure to check out our other easy laundry tips and tricks, that most aren’t aware of. Below are our final secrets! Be sure to share them with friends and family!

Boost Your Detergent

Sometimes our laundry detergent doesn’t work as well as we hoped it would. Instead of going to purchase a different brand, try enhancing this one.

Adding baking soda to a washing machine’s rinse cycle to help your clothes become more thoroughly rinsed. They will resist the stain buildup that can sometimes come with hard water. The baking soda helps the detergent work better and acts as a deodorizer for clothing with a bit of odor. They’ll also feel softer! Cleaner clothes, softer fabric and no extra money spent. This trick is one of our favorites!

 Roll Up a Lint Remover

According to Good Housekeeping, “If you have an cat or dog that sheds, you probably have a lint roller or two lying around the house. If you’re not used to lint or hairs on your clothes — or if you’ve had to roll one too many shirts and are out of sheets — you may be desperate for a solution, but don’t start tearing off pieces of scotch tape yet. Using three inch slivers of tape at a time will make you run through an entire roll before your pants are a solid black again; there’s a more efficient way to get the job done.

Make your own lint remover by rolling up an old magazine or thin mail-order catalog and wrapping wide adhesive tape around it so the sticky side faces out. Pass it lightly over clothing or upholstery fabric to remove lint, bits of thread and stray hairs. You’ll cover a bigger surface area.”

  • We will clean all pet laundry including dog, cat, and animal items.
  • We will pick up or drop off at your home or office for laundry and dry cleaning.
  • Wash, Dry, & Fold services for corporate workers
  • We offer corporate discounts!
  • Our Stain and Fabric Specialists can get rid of most all stains
  • Affordable Quality Dry Cleaning

We offer our laundry services in Raleigh NC on the following items:

  • Bedspreads
  • Comforters
  • Rugs
  • Table Cloths

Contact our Raleigh Laundromat for more information about our expert laundry and stain experts! We hope to help you with your laundry soon!

 

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