Laundromat or your own washing machine: what pays off in Stuttgart?
Load for load, a machine at home costs less. The laundromat pays off if you lack a connection, space or a dryer, wash rarely or have bulky items. At Laundromat Stuttgart-Mitte a load costs €5.00, from €3.80 with the discount card.
The honest calculation
A washing machine of your own costs money to buy, and then come electricity, water, detergent and eventually a repair. If you wash every day, it works out cheaper. If you have one or two loads a week, at the laundromat you pay only for what you actually use, and you avoid trouble with limescale, mould in the rubber seal or moving house with 70 kilos of machine.
Space is expensive in the city centre
In many period buildings around Olgastraße, in the Bohnenviertel or in Stuttgart-Süd there is no connection in the flat, and the laundry cellar is either taken or missing. A dryer hardly fits into any bathroom. If you dry your laundry in the living room, you get damp air and long waits. Laundromat Stuttgart-Mitte has 8 dryers with 20 kg drums that do the job in 20 to 40 minutes.
Time: one hour instead of a whole day
At home one machine follows the other. At the laundromat you start three or four at once. Coloureds, whites, towels and bed linen are washed and dried in about an hour.
Three households, three calculations
Our verdict
- Your own machine if you wash daily and have space, a connection and a dryer.
- The laundromat if you wash rarely or in large amounts, have no dryer or want to wash duvets.
- Both works too: everyday laundry at home, big items in our XXL washing machine.