Tips on Making Your Trip to the Laundromat Painless

Mattituck Laundry is a full service laundry business located on the North Fork of Long Island, NY, Mattituck, New York. With over 15 years of experience, we are committed to providing our customers with clean clothes and excellent service every time. Here are few tips to making your trip to laundromat painless.

Tips on Making Your Trip to the Laundromat Painless

The trip to the laundromat is always a hassle, especially when it’s more than one basket of clothes. If you often have a lot of laundry, it’s best to take a trip to the laundromat more often and with smaller loads! This will decrease the hassle and save you time. Along with multiple trips, always have coins ready. Start by using any large jar and slowly begin filling it on the daily with coins. Then you will never need to search in another couch cushion again!

Using a laundry bag over a laundry basket could be the difference in multiple articles clothing that need to be washed. Bags will save you time and money, plus you can carry a lot more loads of laundry. Bringing your own detergent is also a big money saver. Overall, tips to making the laundromat less of a hassel are all about time management and usually end up saving you money. Simply sorting the colors beforehand can save you time, because all you have to do is throw them in when you get there. The last tip is for the people who always need to be on the go. Running errands while your clothes are being cleaned, like grabbing lunch or groceries, will open up more time in your day to wear your new freshly cleaned clothes!

Mattituck Laundry has multiple laundry service options for your convenience. We provide on-site dry cleaning, washing and folding, as well as free pick-up and delivery. If you prefer to do your own laundry, we also have several coin operated washers and dryers for you to utilize at your leisure. For more information about our services visit our website at northforklaundry.com or give us a call at 631-298-1902.

How to Wash Different Fabrics and Colors

Laundry is a fact of life, whether you like it or not. However, it’s not as daunting of a chore as one might think. Getting clothes really clean has less to do with the detergent you use than it does following basic washing steps for fabrics and colors.

Here are tips from washing certain types of fabric to keeping your whites white and your colors bright.

A majority of machine-washable clothing contains at least one (or more) of these fabrics: cotton, linen, polyester, and spandex.

Cotton

Cotton, a natural fiber, is a favorite for comfortable, versatile clothing including t-shirts and jeans.  Cotton tends to shrink unless the fabric has been preshrunk, so start by checking the label. If the tag reads cold water only," it usually means the item is not preshrunk. Items that are preshrunk can be washed in hot, warm or cold water, depending on garment color and care label recommendations. Generally, washing cotton in cold water will keep the deep color in your jeans and keep your colored items bright.

Linen

Linen, a natural fiber, is made from the flax plant. Some linen garments need to dry-clean, so check care labels. If machine-washable, wash according to label instructions. Linen absorbs more water in the wash than other fibers, so guard against overcrowding in the washer.

Polyester

A hit in the 1900s (1970s disco, anyone?), polyester creates colorful and easy-care garments. Most polyester fabrics can be machine-washed in warm water but check care labels first.

Spandex

Spandex, an elastic fiber now incorporated in small amounts in many types of fabric (including jeans and form-fitting shirts) to add stretch and comfort. While spandex is hand or machine-washable, avoid hot water and chlorine bleach, as both will damage the spandex fibers.

Now that you have some fabric know-how, here are some quick tips for washing colors and whites.

Colors

Colorful garments are fun, but they also need special care, since they can fade and lose color quicker than light or dark clothes.

• Always read the labels. Proper washing will help colorful clothes last longer.
• Sort clothes according to color. Wash dark colors together, and white or lighter colors together. If there is a larger load made up of color groups, then these can be tackled in separately. Purples, reds, oranges and bright yellows can be washed together; while bright blues and greens can also be washed together in a separate load.
• Turn new colored clothes inside out, and put in the washing machine. Do not overstuff the machine, and wash the items in cold water on as gentle a cycle as is necessary to clean clothes.
• Remove clothes from the machine as soon as cycle finishes. Allowing them to sit in a washing machine may cause the colors to bleed onto other items.

Whites

• Don’t wash whites with colors. The main cause of dinginess is bleeding from mixing colors with whites. The second main culprit is detergent residue because it acts like a magnet for dirt.
• Use the hottest temperature the fabric can withstand. The hotter the water, the more effective the detergent, but check garment labels first.

For all clothing

• Always inspect clothing for stains before washing. Pretreating stains as soon as possible is a must, as the longer a stain sits, the greater the chance is that it sets. This not only causes discoloration but also weakens the fabric.
• Always wet the stained area with cold water first, then spray it with a stain remover.

When you’ve followed these tips, the machine does the dirty work - until the laundry needs to be folded.

Mattituck Laundry is located at 12250 Main Road, on the North Fork of Long Island, New York, with additional locations in Greenport and East Hampton. Our services include on-site dry cleaning, wash and fold, pick-up and delivery, and self-service coin-operated washers and dryers. Visit our website or call -631-298-1963 to learn more!

Take Advantage of Our FREE Pick-Up and Delivery!

Have you ever found yourself…

•        Altering your route to drop off or pick up your dry-cleaning?

•        Leaving dirty, wrinkled clothes sitting forgotten in the closet because “you just didn’t have time” to bring them in?

•        Forgetting a treasured item at the cleaners because life got away from you?

All too often we’re trying to squeeze one more errand into our already over-packed days.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, when Americans dedicate time to housework, we spend 2.35 hours doing it! Laundry is one of these chores that never go away.

Save precious time by having Mattituck Laundry do the work for you. We offer FREE pick-up and delivery for all your cleaning needs. Let one of our laundry professionals come to your home, pick up your clothes, and bring them back for a cleaning. We’ll dry clean, wash and fold - whatever your needs are. When your clothes are done we’ll deliver them right back to you! 

Wondering what to do with all your free time?

Ten Things You Can Do Instead of Your Laundry

1.     Go straight home after that stressful meeting

2.     Pick your kids up from school on time

3.     Make dinner

4.     Enjoy leisure time with your partner

5.     Grab coffee with a friend

6.     Make it to the gym, yoga, or spin class

7.     Cheer on your teenager at their game or performance

8.     Walk the dog

9.     Catch up on current events

10.  Dedicate mental energy to networking, building your business, or involvement in charity work

Streamline your to-do list, make your errand routes more direct, and never leave wrinkly clothes in the dryer again. For more information on the logistics of our FREE pick up and delivery service, give us a call at 631-298-1963. 

Mattituck Laundry is a full service laundry business offering dry cleaning, washing and folding of machine-washable items, and self-service coin operated washers and dryers.  Head to our website to learn more about our services!