What do you
think this will
be about?
Laundry
The Laundry Cycle
Collecting Sorting dirty Pre trating
Washing
dirty laundry laundry stains
If Required Delivering
Folding and
Drying Repairing or clothes into
stacking
Ironing room
■ All the dirty linen from various
Step 1: sections in the hotel such as guest
rooms, guest bathrooms, and
Collecting dining area, are collected.
■ The soiled linen is put separately.
Dirty Laundry The principle is, whatever linen it is,
it must not hang over the edge of
the collection basket.
■ The collected linen is transferred to
the laundry department.
■ Separate the linen carefully
Step 2: according to type of fabric, domain
of item use, degree of soiling, and
Sorting Dirty type of soiling.
■ Keep the staff uniforms, guest
Laundry room and bathroom linen, dining
area linen, butchery aprons, and
guests’ personal clothes all
separately.
■ Always handle the linen using
gloves.
Step 3: ■ Before the putting the linen into
the washer, inspect it for stains
Pre-Treating such as grease or oil.
■ Remove the stains using stain
Stains cleaning chemicals.
■ If instructed before, use
detergents and cleaning
chemicals at the time of washing
only, to save the time and efforts.
Step 4:
Washing ■ Put the linen into washers.
■ Weigh the linen before washing
process to ensure the washers are not
overloaded.
■ Set the automatic washers to different
wash cycles depending upon the type
of linen. For example, embroidered
pillow covers need soft wash cycle and
the curtains need harder wash cycles.
■ Put the linen into dryers for removing
any moisture still left.
Step 5: ■ Be careful while transferring the linen
from washers to dryers because the
Drying weight of the linen increases after
washing.
■ Use automatic dryers that provides
drying by hot air blows.
■ These dryers operate on less
electricity and yield fresh and
completely dry linen.
Step 6: ■ At this stage, check the linen for any
wear and tear.
Repairing or ■ Separate the worn out linen to be
given to the tailor.
Ironing ■ Some linen such as towels, bed linen,
and dining area linen require Ironing.
■ Pass these linen through the ironer.
■ Some linen such as uniforms, needs to
be hand-ironed.
■ Automatic folding and stacking
machines come to the aid of
Step 7: housekeeping staff to save them
from the large effort of folding
Folding , Stacking and stacking the linen accurately.
& Storing ■ Some sort of linen such as staff
uniforms and guest personal
clothes still need manual efforts
for folding.
■ Use the folding/stacking
machines that ascertains
finished appearance and makes
the linen easy for storage and
handling.
■ Transport the ready laundered
Step 8: linen to the uniform room and
linen room.
Delivering Clothes ■ Send the linen that need repair to
the tailor room.
into Rooms ■ Then deliver the linen at the time
of keeping and cleaning the
various premises such as guest
rooms, dining area, and banquet
halls.
■ Give away the guests’ personal
clothes according to the rooms
they are staying in.
What is
That?
Are all Stains
The same?
How do we
Get it?
Can we
Remove it?
Coffee or Tea
Different Types
of Stains Wines
Sauces
Ink
Lipstick or Make-up
Sunblock
Coffee or Tea Stain What kind
of Stain is
this?
Sponge or soak Pretreat Launder
Sponge or soak stain in cool Pretreat with prewash stain Launder using sodium
water remover, liquid laundry hypochloride bleach, if safe for
detergent, liquid detergent fabric or oxgygen bleach.
booster or paste of powder
laundry product and water.
Wine & Alcohol Stain What kind
of Stain is
this?
Sponge or soak Pretreat Launder
Sponge or soak stain in cool Pretreat with prewash stain Launder using sodium
water remover, liquid laundry hypochloride bleach, if safe for
detergent, liquid detergent fabric or oxgygen bleach.
booster or paste of powder
laundry product and water.
Sauce Stain What kind
of Stain is
this?
1 2 3 4
Begin by wetting Apply dishwasher Next, rub over If
the stained area detergent and the stained area any stain remain
with water. gently rub it into with an ice cube s, blot it with a
the stain. ... as you are clean cloth
rubbing out moistened with
the stain. vinegar.
Ink Stain
An alcohol-based
hairspray is ia stain Spot test an Spray Let the Blot
remover that helps inconspicuous the stain with hairspray set. the stain with
to remove ink stain. area. hairspray a clean cloth
What kind
of Stain is
this?
Lipstick Stain What kind
of Stain is
this?
1 2 3 4
Take a cotton ball Blot Once you have Wash the fabric
or clean white the stain with the blotted the stain, as usual.
cloth and alcohol rinse out the
dampen it with to remove the lip alcohol with cool
rubbing alcohol. stick stains from water.
clothing. ...
