Wednesday, December 9, 2009


How to start a laundry business? Starting from the capital, details of the cost to buy tools and facilities that must be met, until the estimated expenditure per month in the laundry business and profits. In addition, if you want a partner to any criteria of good business partner and be trusted? If we can not afford to buy heavy equipment or facilities such as washing machines, whether to hire?

In Indonesia there are several types of businesses still fall into the category aka laundry business laundry washing clothes.

Laundry business from the simplest type known as laundry. These businesses are mushrooming in the region usually there is lots of kos-kosan or rented house, where lodging or rental tenants do not have time or can not do the washing and ironing his own clothes. This is usually done by servants or guards kos-kosan it.

While a sophisticated form of laundry in Indonesia has always known as the laundry. In modern language it is today more known as the laundry & dry cleaning, which for washing laundry using the washing machine. As for dry cleaning clothes cleaned with special chemicals to clean and knocked out the dirt on the clothes without the usual wash.

This kind of business that used to only be done at home or there are luxury hotels to guest facilities, then began mushrooming in the 1990s, since the start of a franchise system (franchise) business from abroad.

Within the last few years the business flourished, too type that uses a local franchise and agency systems that can provide services more affordable price. Services, which had been reserved for the upper class society, can now be enjoyed middle-class people down.

Not stop there, the combination of inexpensive service with laundry services had grown more creative with the emergence of laundry kilogram. Laundry is usual, but with the price paid based on a count of pounds (not per piece of clothing).

Well, if you want a laundry business for the middle class who can afford all the layers, let's see what preparation should be done.

First, capital investment required for sales locations (outlets where the customer receives or laundry), wash locations, and equipment of machines needed, as well as installation of water, electricity, and wastewater disposal.

Location where the received washing and the washing can be done in the same place or separate, given the required installation of water that needs space and cost too much.

There are also machines required are: cash register (cash register), clothes washing machine large capacity / industry, clothes dryer large capacity, large press ironing machine, and iron hand. This is the minimum standard required machines to start this business. If the amount of laundry not too much, press machines (automatic iron) can be replaced by iron hand is much cheaper price.

Machine cash registers used at the premises of the laundry to record and receive financial transactions. The washing machine is used for washing clothes can be washed with ordinary machines, while the clothes can not be washed with common washing machine should be washed separately.

Although Indonesia tropical country with the sun continued to shine, we can not rely on the sun to dry laundry. In addition, the required space is very big clothesline to dry clothes. When the rains come, it will be difficult to dry clothes. So, take the laundry dryer.

Ironing machine (press) is also required automatic, but to get a press-line or line of iron which is usually clear and firm prefers washerwoman heavy iron hand, because it gives results that much more leverage, although needs more work force.

As for the cost of day-to-day operational components: rent laundry detergents and softeners, water, chemicals for dry-cleaned, and human resources (workers). For locations in your own home can be, especially location of a wash. As for water, can use ground water, but try it first screened for the dirty ground water can damage clothing.

In some modern laundry, usually using the machine before use water filters or water recycling machine. Some modern laundry more luxurious and expensive to use mineral water to wash clothes subscribers. It takes 1 person working in the recipient's laundry, 2 people working in the wash, 1 person to wash, and 1 person for ironing clothes.

The biggest capital is to be prepared for the purchase of machinery and rent a place. As for the price of machinery relative to the types of machines to buy. The washing machine has specifications, depending on the number of pounds that need washing if 10 kg, 20 kg, 30 kg, and so on, as well as the dryer. For class machines German industrial output have best quality, but cost much more than the Japanese output engine.

To start a home-based business types, you can use a home machine, but the washing capacity is not big enough. So that when demand increases laundry you have to use some of the washing machine. Laundry business relies on large quantities, because the profit per piece from the side of a nominal not too large.

So, the marketing or the amount of laundry will be very decisive when your investment return of capital and profits to be achieved. If it wants to do business with the necessary medium-scale capital large enough, among the hundreds of million to one billion rupiah.

Be a partner so one of the alternatives that can be done. However, finding a partner was not easy. There must be compatibility and a common vision and mission in doing business together. There should also counting firm and clear in the capital and profit-sharing system. If not made in the form of legal (legal entity), there must be a binding treaty.

Lots of ins and outs of this business about which you can know if you want to start at middle level. For more information, there is an association or associations of entrepreneurs Laundry (laundry, especially medium and large), where you can ask more specific and detailed about this business. Salam business!

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