<p>Does anyone know if there is a laundry service available to UVa students? My D will be a freshman next year, and many of the schools we visited talked about this as an option. Normally I wouldn't consider such an endulgement; however, when I started running the numbers (# of loads per week x cost per
load + dry cleaning) it actually turned out to be a wash (okay...pun intended). Any comments?</p>
<p>There’s no way your daughter does more than 1 trip per week, which means extra stuffing into machines, which means it can’t be as much as you’re thinking. 1 load wash/dry is $3 (unless they raise prices again), and with my dressy stuff I air dry so that helps reduce costs. I have never dry cleaned anything at college. How would you get it there? First years aren’t allowed to have cars. All in all, I think your daughter will be just fine doing her own laundry.</p>
<p>You can drop dry cleaning off at the bookstore and that cleaner might offer a laundry service. The dorm laundry rooms are okay. You need to watch your stuff or it might not be there when you come back.</p>
<p>you can drop dry cleaning off at the bookstore?! what. how did i live in brown for 4 years and not know that?!??</p>
<p>You know other things. Like finding people the perfect link containing exactly the info they need.</p>
<p>See now if someone had asked this 3 years ago maybe i would have googled it and found out
I still probably wouldn’t have been willing to spend money/time on dry cleaning, or so I tell myself</p>
<p>When you iron like I do you need to know where the closest dry cleaner is. Besides, walking back to a dorm with your dry cleaning flying through the air like a kite (especially in the rain) is not that great.</p>
<p>Okay, so here’s what I’m thinking. She will doing 4-5 loads of laundry per week. (She’s an athlete, so it’ll be closer to 5 and maybe even 6.) If it’s $3 per load to wash/dry, then that’s $15 per week. There are roughly 35 weeks in the academic calendar per year if I’ve calculated correctly (excluded breaks); thus, that’s $525 per year. There’s a service that charges $575 for the academic year to do 15 lb. per week. ($679 for 20 lb. and $799 for unlimited) They pick up your clothes outside your door on Monday morning and return them washed, folded, and pressed on Wednesday evening. For $35 per semester, they’ll throw in dry cleaning. To determine if this is cost beneficial, obviously I need to figure out how many pounds of laundry she accumulates per week. (IMO, ironing is definitely worth $50 per year; shoot, I’d pay more. I must spend two hours per week ironing our family’s clothes!) Has anyone heard of this company: College Life Laundry? They advertised on the 2014 Facebook page. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegelifelaundry.com/Sign-Up[/url]”>http://www.collegelifelaundry.com/Sign-Up</a></p>
<p>If she’s an athlete, her team will be washing all her practice stuff for her.</p>
<p>4-5 loads of laundry is a lot more than 20 pounds. I know this because I did a load of laundry at a drop off laundry place one and it was close to 20 pounds a load. Hoodies and jeans weigh a lot.</p>
<p>I never heard of collegelifelaundry. Maybe their new.</p>
<p>I’ve seen that laundry’s SUV around town. I don’t know anyone who uses them.</p>
<p>Removing the practice clothes, which will be taken care of, I really don’t think your child will be doing 4-5 loads of laundry per week. I would let her do the usual for a few weeks and decide for herself if she wants to use a service.</p>
<p>I doubt we’ll splurge but the costs don’t seem that bad for that laundry service, I’ll have to keep that in the back of my mind!</p>
<p>My daughter used Sunshine 2nd, 3rd and 4th year.
She had a car and dropped it off, they do pick up–it may be the same as the above link.</p>
<p>[Sunshine</a> Laundromat - Serving Charlottesville Since 1996](<a href=“http://www.sunshine-laundromat.com/pickup.php]Sunshine”>http://www.sunshine-laundromat.com/pickup.php)</p>
<p>The laundry machines in dorms are pitiful. I used them a total of ~5 times first year. My clothes came out significantly dirtier than they went in i.e. there was actual dirt when I pulled them out of the washing machine. And there was no dirt when they went in. So I started making monthly trips home to do my laundry which was an unbelievable pain in the ass.</p>
<p>After complaining to a couple of friends who had apartments w/ W + D, they let me do my laundry at their place. I usually would make dinner (yeah, 1st year!) in exchange for clean clothes haha. It worked really well. Since your daughter is on a sports team, a good number of the girls she meets will have W+D in their apts, but this is more of a 2nd semester strategy. 
First semester, start with the dorm W+D and see how it goes from there. For dry cleaning, bookstore is the most convenient.</p>
<p>I never had any experience of clothes being dirty after washing them. But I guess it depends on your location. You could always request a work order, the guys in Brown at least are amazing and will fix anything if it isn’t working the way you expect it to.</p>
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<p>UVA Laundry
Door-to-door laundry service for UVA students
UVA students have more important things to do than worry about their laundry. Studies show the average college student spends 35 hours a semester
doing laundry.</p>
<p>The UVA Bookstore sponsors University Laundry, a wash and fold laundry
service for UVA students. University Laundry will pick up, wash, dry, and
fold the laundry at their professional facilities. Clean laundry is then delivered
back to the student’s dorm room the very next day. University Laundry is
an alumni run, student managed organization. </p>
<p>[UVA</a> Undergraduate Dorm Supplies | CAV - Cavalier Computers](<a href=“http://www.uvastudentcomputers.com/shop_dorm.asp?packageid=127,128]UVA”>http://www.uvastudentcomputers.com/shop_dorm.asp?packageid=127,128)</p>
<p>DON’T USE COLLEGE LIFE LAUNDRY! </p>
<p>They will charge you like 7$ extra if your laundry is even half a pound over weight, which is impossible to tell since I don’t have a scale in my dorm. Also, I’ve gotten back about 5 ripped shirts from them, and they refused to cover any cost whatsoever. Often it seems like they just run water through my laundry, because if there is even a grass stain on my cloths, it never comes back clean.</p>
<p>Don’t get caught with their advertising and seemingly down-to-earth manner. They are a bad laundry organization.</p>
<p>I reported “UVaHotRon” as a spammer. I don’t know about the company he represents, but the TOS here is pretty clear about advertising.</p>
<p>…okay so fyi i did uva laundry for 4 years and had no problems whatsoever…</p>
<p>We just finished orientation today. This morning I had a chance to chat with one of the reps from UVA Laundry. He was SO personable and had a sample, shrinkwrapped stack of freshly laundered shirts to give the prospective parent/student clients an idea of how the laundry is returned. Furthermore, he said the stack weighed 7 lbs; hence, parents could gauge which service they felt was best suited for their child (10 lb, 15 lb, or unlmtd.). He continued to explain if a student didn’t use all of their weight one week, it would “roll over” to the next. Students could sign up for weekly pick-up/deliveries or every other week. He also explained that girls would get a separate bag for delicate clothing that they did not want dried. (This is a large portion of D’s wardrobe since many of her clothing articles are pricey and drying will damage them.) For these items, they will hang them wet and then fold them once they’re dry. Lastly he said that if a student is consistently going over on his/her pkg., the company will email them to let them know so that they can increase their package or cut back on their laundry. I was so impressed that I bought the service for my daughter. I feel better about supporting the UVA community rather than an outside company (CLL). Thanks for all of the advice given on this thread! I’ll let you know mid-year how the service is working.</p>