Updates, insights, and stories about linen and laundry programs.
UCLA Housing has selected DormHealth to power a fully managed linen exchange program across its residence halls, serving thousands of on-campus residents.
UCLA announces a shift to triple occupancy in most on-campus dorms to meet housing demand, adding pressure to shared facilities including laundry rooms and common spaces.
NIU students at Stevenson Towers report laundry machines frequently occupied by unattended loads, reflecting a common campus capacity challenge in high-density housing.
Good Counsel Hall at Villanova houses 240 freshmen sharing a limited set of washers and dryers, creating chronic machine unavailability.
Washers and dryers across three Occidental College first-year dorms experienced simultaneous failures at the start of the semester, illustrating the challenges of laundry infrastructure redundancy on campus.
Vanderbilt's Memorial House residents navigate a low washer-to-student ratio that makes routine laundry an unpredictable, time-consuming process.
Over 300 students at Florida A&M's Towers South share a single laundry room with eight washers and eight dryers, creating persistent bottlenecks and frustration.
Why more universities and residential communities are adopting managed linen programs.
An overview of how UCLA residence halls provide fresh linens to students through the DormHealth linen plan.
UCLA operates over 1,400 laundry machines processing approximately 3,000 loads per day, yet students report persistent breakdowns, long waits, and rising costs.
An introduction to DormHealth and how we're rethinking linen access for residential communities.
UCLA's three newest apartment buildings, opened in fall 2022 with 2,300 beds, encountered familiar laundry challenges from the start: machine reliability, wait times, and per-load costs.
Cornell students paying approximately $12,000 per year for housing question why laundry costs extra, citing malfunctioning machines and per-load fees.
UNC Asheville residents report campus-wide laundry challenges driven by peak-hour congestion and limited machine capacity across multiple residence halls.
George Mason University students clash over whether it is acceptable to remove someone else's finished laundry from a machine, a conflict rooted in insufficient machine capacity.
Boston College students rate their laundry experience a 4.47 out of 10 in a campus poll, reflecting a pattern of laundry dissatisfaction seen at universities nationwide.
Dryers across multiple Vassar residence halls went offline on a weekend, highlighting the challenges of maintaining laundry equipment redundancy and weekend maintenance coverage on campus.
Yale students report mold, pests, and maintenance issues in dormitory laundry facilities, reflecting the upkeep challenges that high-moisture, high-traffic utility spaces present for campus housing programs.
Georgetown's Village A laundry room serves up to 456 residents with 12 washers and 8 functional dryers after two units were removed, highlighting a common capacity planning challenge in campus housing.
A Daily Bruin editorial documents how UCLA Hill residents routinely pay for multiple dryer cycles because machines fail to fully dry clothes in a single run.
Tufts University students faced a 16-20% laundry price increase, bringing the minimum cost per wash-and-dry cycle to $3, the first price hike in a decade.