Design mockup. This is a sample page built to show a layout, not a real business. The name, the phone number, the street address and every price on it are invented placeholders. Not affiliated with any real company.
Cottonwood Wash House
Two businesses, one roof, two different clocks. This is which one is awake when.
Coin laundry, every day
Doors unlocked around the clock. Last wash start is not a thing here.
Attendant on the floor, Monday to Friday
Drop off and pick up of wash dry fold happens in these hours only.
Thrift store, Monday to Friday
Saturday it is 9 to noon. Sunday the thrift side is dark and the laundry is not.
The tiles below are drawn roughly to the size of the machine. Prices are per load and the card reader and the coin slots charge the same.
Top loader
One hamper. Everyday clothes, a week of one person's laundry.
$3.00
14 of them, along the west wall
Front loader
Two hampers, or one set of queen sheets with the pillowcases and a towel or two.
$4.75
9 of them
Front loader
A queen comforter on its own with room to tumble, or a full family's week in one go. This is the one most people are actually looking for.
$7.50
5 of them, in the middle row
Front loader
A king comforter and the shams. Two sleeping bags. A dog bed and the covers off the couch. Contractors use these for shop rags and coveralls, and if it will fit through the door it will usually fit in here.
$11.00
3 of them, at the north end
Thirty stack dryers at 25 cents for eight minutes, and six 50 pound tumblers at 25 cents for six minutes. Nothing here is on a timer you cannot add to, and the big tumblers will dry a comforter in about forty minutes rather than the ninety a home dryer takes.
Wash, dry and fold, priced by the pound with a fifteen pound minimum. Dropped before 10am on a weekday is ready the same day by 5. Dropped after that is ready the next working day.
$1.65 a pound
Clothing, kitchen things, books, small furniture and a shelf of tools, all of it donated and most of it priced under five dollars. It is the reason people come in with nothing to wash.
Donations are taken at the counter during attendant hours only. Please do not leave bags at the door overnight, because they get rained on and then they get thrown away, which helps nobody.
What is not taken: mattresses, car seats, cribs, tube televisions, exercise equipment and anything with a cord that has not been tested. That list exists because state resale rules cover most of it and the rest will not sell.
The store is staffed by volunteers and what it clears goes back into the building, which is why the dryers get replaced and the parking lot gets plowed.
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The room from the back corner at night, lights on, most machines idle. Wide, straight, no people. This is the one that answers "is it clean and is it safe".
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The three 80 pound machines head on, doors open, with a folded king comforter on the table beside them for scale.
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The folding tables in daylight, clean and empty, with the soap vending machine in frame.
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The thrift side looking down the clothing rack toward the front window, taken from the laundry doorway so both halves of the building are in one frame.
123 Main St, Cameron, Missouri. Twenty eight parking spaces, all of them lit, and the two by the door are kept clear for drop off. Most people are in from Cameron, Osborn, Turney, Winston and Maysville, and the truck stop traffic off the interstate finds the place at hours nobody else is open.
Questions about a load, a refund or a donation go to (816) 555-0119 during attendant hours. Outside those hours the doors are still open and the phone is not.