smaller stack dryers?

[Maywood2]

hi. do you know if anyone manufactures smaller stack dryers, suitable for a top-load machine's load? Seems like a 30-pound dryer is overkill for a top-load wash. (I'd still put in a number of 30-lb stacks, since you never know if people like to combine their wash, but to pay $4700 per stack (Wascomat) or $5200 (SpeedQueen) really ratchets up the cost if I want to get enough dryer pockets to go around.

(Put another way, if the top-load customers all keep their dryer loads separate, I need enough pockets to go around, but they'd be horribly under-loaded. If the people double-up or triple-up the dryer loads, then I'm buying stacks that aren't getting used.)

Thanks!
John

[dzender]

I would never downsize. Shop around and get better pricing as it sounds like your distributor is screwing you. I paid $3,500 for new SQ 30# stacks.

[Maywood2]

how recently did you get them at that price?

[pete f]

Try 1 30# dryer pocket for every 23 pound of capacity.
Small stack dryers are for home style mats, not geared towards new modern mats with real comerical equipment. Maybe you need to add bigger washers to keep up with your bigger dryers?

[Tom Ala.]

To answer your question Maytag and Whirlpool make small stack dryers. Now do not buy them for a laundry. They are 2 slow. I have 6 or 8 in storage (Maytag) from pulling them out of home style laundry's and replacing them with #30. I have 1 stack at home and my wife love it. Tom

[Maywood2]

Well, this will be a "neighborhood laundry" type store -- more smaller machines rather than bigger. That seems to be what the market uses, and since I don't have parking, it seems unlikely that people will drag 75-pound loads into my store.

At the moment, I'm thinking of something like:
(8) Top-Loaders
(6) 18-lb front-loaders
(3) 30-lb front-loaders

That would make me competitive I think, with the other laundries in the area, in terms of the sizes people use today.

Given that it probably qualifies as what you're calling a "home-style" laundry, do you still think a smaller stack dryer is a bad idea?

Tom -- How slow are the ones you removed, compared to 30-lb'ers? Any idea what the BTU's/hour are on the ones you have in storage? Model #, size, age, condition, rough price you'd want for them, etc?

Thanks!
John

[DuboisLaundry]

I have 6 stacks ( 12 drums) of maytag single load dryers, about 30K BTU/Hr and vend for 75cents / half hour ( coin slides )
(my 30# are 9 minutes for a quarter)

some customers love them
some only use them if all the 30# are busy
I use them frequently on smaller loads of WDF

[Maywood2]

Thanks Tom for info. If you can get the size and model info, and how many are complete units...

Would cost a fortune to drive them up to PA now, but would think about it.

Thanks!
John