UK LAUNDRY OPERATORS

Commercial Laundry Contract Profit Calculator

Turn rooms, occupancy, turnaround and linen risk into a monthly contract floor — before you agree a headline rate.

OPERATOR · CONTRACT COST-TO-SERVE

Price the hotel contract, not a disconnected wash-and-fold rate.

MINIMUM MONTHLY CONTRACT

£7,334.65

£1.08 per planned kg · 1568 kg/week

Required pool target9 sets / room
Modeled cost£5,500.98

CONTRACT SCORECARD

Weekly kg to price1568
Delivery runs / month13.0
Monthly linen-loss reserve£43.20
Minimum monthly contract£7,334.65

TERMS TO LOCK DOWN

  • State whether linen is customer-owned or rental stock.
  • Specify collection/return days, turnaround and failed-delivery handling.
  • Define quality rejects, stain treatment, replacement and stock-loss rules.
  • Keep room occupancy and kilograms per occupied room visible for review.

Sources and limits

This is an editable operator cost-to-serve model, not a market-price promise or binding quotation. Public price observations are context only: service mix, location, linen ownership, collection and quality standards can move the result materially.

USE THE RESULT

Build a UK commercial-laundry rate card from processed volume, linen model, delivery and margin economics.

Sources reviewed: 2026-08-12 · Model version: 2026.08.1

Formula and meaning

Processing and logistics cost ÷ billable volume, adjusted for target margin

What it means: The rate card highlights the difference between a visible per-kilo rate and the full operational cost of linen, delivery and turnaround.

A rental-linen contract with multiple deliveries is not comparable with a wash-only bulk-linen service.

Key concepts

Billable volume
The weight or item volume that the contract defines as chargeable.
Linen model
Whether the customer owns linen or the service includes rental stock and associated loss risk.

Information to confirm

  • Volume, item mix and processing requirements
  • Linen ownership, loss and replacement terms
  • Route density, turnaround and energy cost

ANSWER & SCOPE

What this tool calculates

This operator calculator builds a UK commercial-laundry contract floor from processed volume, linen model, route, delivery and margin economics, exposing the full cost behind a per-kilo rate.

Use it when a UK laundry operator needs a defensible contract price floor from real volume and logistics.

Includes

  • Processed volume and item mix
  • Linen-pool exposure
  • Route and delivery costs
  • Contract margin floor and terms checklist

Does not include

  • Customer pricing decisions
  • Linen replacement terms
  • Energy benchmarking
  • A binding supplier quotation

National minimum wage is a statutory cost context

The 2026 UK National Minimum Wage publication provides the statutory labour-cost context the operator model uses as an editable input.

GOV.UK — National Minimum Wage 2026

Commercial prices are observation-based

Public commercial-laundry price context and energy observations calibrate the worksheet; inputs stay editable because contracts and routes differ.

LP Laundry — UK commercial price context

Sources reviewed: · WorkResolved methodology · About and corrections