very unusal warm winter

[hithere]

what influence does it make to laundry business warm winter?
Normally, I think, in here north east, revenue in winter is better than that from summer....
but this winter, so far, SO WARM....
I don't know what happens if this very wierd weather continue to warm...
what do you think?

thanks

[Andy]

Well, in my case it is a positive effect because it cost much less to heat the building during warmer periods. I think the other effects-like people washing fewer articles is not measurable for me.

[PeterH]

Warm or cold does not effect business as much as sunny or rainy does. Rainy days are always busier.

[hithere]

Warm or cold does not effect business as much as sunny or rainy does. Rainy days are always busier.


in here, sunny days are more busier than rainy days

[hithere]

Warm or cold does not effect business as much as sunny or rainy does. Rainy days are always busier.

the colder weather, the more business, is this true??

if it is true, then why winter is busier than summer?

is there any way to boost up business during summer time? thanks

[Buddy_Amoroso]

I can thank El Nino for a great January. It has been cool to cold and rainy here in Louisiana.

Great for my laundry mate! Terrible for my construction project. I have been trying to pour a parking lot since the first of the year and no luck.


buddy amoroso
baton rouge, LA

[Quartermaster]

We have had a mild winter until just recently when the temp went WAY DOWN into the deep freeze. Business had been well ahead of last year, but has gone back to seasonal norm now. Just wait till the warm weather returns and so will the customers. Business is always great just after a spell of bad weather of any kind, such as cold, snow or rainy.

Someone tried to make an unauthorized withdrawl the other night by trying to break through my all-glass front door. They didn't make it thanks to the laminated glass I had installed a few years ago when the same glass got broken by accident one day. It was only tempered at that time, and the light bulb in my head went off - time to install laminated just in case......

[hithere]

We have had a mild winter until just recently when the temp went WAY DOWN into the deep freeze. Business had been well ahead of last year, but has gone back to seasonal norm now. Just wait till the warm weather returns and so will the customers. Business is always great just after a spell of bad weather of any kind, such as cold, snow or rainy.

Someone tried to make an unauthorized withdrawl the other night by trying to break through my all-glass front door. They didn't make it thanks to the laminated glass I had installed a few years ago when the same glass got broken by accident one day. It was only tempered at that time, and the light bulb in my head went off - time to install laminated just in case......


laminated window grass can not be broken?

[pete f]

It has been cold here all week now, hardly gets above 65. Great biz for comfortors and people have to wear more clothes. Summer is 85/90 and t shirt and shorts. Even my own laundry basket gets fuller, crap I have to wear socks it is so cold.

As for the glass, what are you talking about? Impact film? I am putting a new store front on amat , hurricane glass was 19.5k, regular glass was 12.5k, I have to buy storm panels, another 1500. I am opting for the cheaper glass so I can spend the extra on a/c .. bugeting. I know some sell a film here that can not be broken into, but is very expensive.

[Andy]

Hey Pete I really feel for you. When I got up today it was -5 and it made it all the way up to 9 before it started to head back down.

[hithere]

It has been cold here all week now, hardly gets above 65. Great biz for comfortors and people have to wear more clothes. Summer is 85/90 and t shirt and shorts. Even my own laundry basket gets fuller, crap I have to wear socks it is so cold.

As for the glass, what are you talking about? Impact film? I am putting a new store front on amat , hurricane glass was 19.5k, regular glass was 12.5k, I have to buy storm panels, another 1500. I am opting for the cheaper glass so I can spend the extra on a/c .. bugeting. I know some sell a film here that can not be broken into, but is very expensive.

Now I see that no good for business when "too much COLD" since people not trying to move out of home....
In here, too cold now 7 or 8, so business is slow again.....
:-(

[Quartermaster]

pete f and hithere;

The glass I am describing has 2 layers of glass with a plastic film between them. It virtually cannot be penetrated. I have seen videotapes where 2x4's have been 'fired' by air pressure into samples of the glass. The glass cracks and crumbles, but the plastic layer does not allow the 2x4 to go through.

Different manufacturers use their own names to label the glass. Hurricane Glass is one, Costal Glass is another one.

In my case it looked as if the perpetrator put a shoulder into the door hoping the glass would just break or crumble (tempered) and entry would be gained. It didn't work, the glass just 'spiderwebbed' but didn't break out at all. In my opinion, it was more than worth the extra cost, whatever the amount. It was about $300 to replace the door glass. How much more damage would the burglars have done if they had gotten in? Plus, if they got into any machines, the money from them would be missing.