Hotels
Clean linens, on schedule, every single day.
Guest satisfaction starts in the laundry room. Arrow selects, installs, and services washers and dryers sized to your occupancy and your turn time — so housekeeping is never waiting on a machine.
What hotel operators get from Arrow
- Right-sized equipment matched to your room count and linen volume — no over- or under-buying.
- Installation done by Arrow's own crew, configured for your utilities and your space.
- A real service team across the region, so a down machine doesn't become a guest complaint.
- Heavy-duty washers and dryers built for the daily punishment of hospitality laundry.
Proof point
Arrow serves hospitality operators including Hampton and Omni — brands that can't afford a laundry room that falls behind.
How hotel laundry sizing actually works
Sizing an on-premise laundry is arithmetic — the same model Arrow runs when we quote a property: rooms × occupancy × 365 × pounds per occupied room gives annual poundage, worked down through your operating week to the pounds per hour your washers must clear. Pounds per occupied room tracks your brand flag's linen standard:
| Linen profile | Planning lb / occupied room |
|---|---|
| Budget / economy | 8–10 lb |
| Select-service / extended-stay | 12–16 lb |
| Full-service (F&B, banquets) | 16–21 lb |
| Resort destination | 24–30 lb |
| Luxury | 42–52 lb |
Worked quickly, from a real Arrow sizing: a 133-room select-service hotel at 75% occupancy and 14 lb per room generates about 510,000 lb a year — 175 lb per hour on an 8-hour, 7-day laundry. At ~1.3 wash loads per hour that's 131 lb of washer capacity — one 60-lb plus one 80-lb washer-extractor, with two 75-lb dryers sized to the linen's drying factor.
The full arithmetic — the flag lookup, the 5-day-vs-7-day operating week, washer and dryer factors, and what moves the numbers — is in our guide: How to Size Hotel Laundry Equipment by Room Count. Before quoting, Arrow sizes against your actual flag, occupancy, utilities, and space.
The equipment — and how we spec it
Arrow supplies commercial washer-extractors and dryers built for hospitality duty cycles — including Milnor washer-extractors, the industrial standard Arrow distributes and services in this region. What we spec for your property depends on four things we look at before anything gets quoted:
- Capacity split. Two right-sized washers beat one big one: when a single machine is your whole laundry, a breakdown stops the house. A split lineup runs at half speed during a repair instead of zero.
- Extract speed. High-extract (soft-mount) washers spin more water out mechanically, cutting dry time and gas usage — often the difference-maker in a space- or utility-constrained laundry room.
- Utilities. Gas, electric, or steam drying; hot-water capacity; the electrical service actually available in the room. The building decides more of the equipment list than the brochure does.
- Mounting. Hard-mount machines need a proper foundation; soft-mount machines don't — which matters on upper floors and in retrofits.
Watching the budget? Arrow also maintains a used commercial equipment catalog — inspected machines with real prices listed.
Installed and serviced by the same company
Arrow has sold, installed, and serviced commercial laundry equipment since 1959, and it's one relationship: the crew that installs your machines is backed by the service team that keeps them running. We cover Oklahoma, NW Arkansas, and the Texas Panhandle from Oklahoma City — hotels in Tulsa, Lawton, and across the region call the same number the OKC properties do: 1.800.835.WASH.
When a machine goes down mid-season, that's a service request — a real person picks it up, and a technician who knows hospitality equipment shows up.
Hotel laundry questions we hear most
How many pounds of laundry does a hotel generate per room?
It tracks your flag's linen standard: 8–10 lb per occupied room for budget properties, 12–16 lb for select-service and extended-stay, 16–21 lb for full-service, 24–30 lb for resorts, and up to 52 lb at luxury service levels. Multiply by room count, occupancy, and 365 for the annual poundage — the full sizing guide walks the whole calculation.
What size washers does a 100-room hotel need?
A 100-room select-service property at 75% occupancy works out to roughly 130 lb of washing per hour on an 8-hour, 7-day laundry — about 100 lb of required washer capacity, typically two 50–60 lb washer-extractors, with two 60–75 lb dryers. A full-service flag, a 5-day laundry week, or resort linen each move it up a size.
Is one large washer or two smaller washers better?
Two, almost always. The poundage math is similar, but a single machine means a breakdown stops your whole laundry. Two machines keep linen moving at half speed during a repair — and let you run small specialty loads without firing up a big drum.
Gas or electric dryers?
Where a gas line is available, gas drying usually costs meaningfully less to run. The real answer comes from your building's utility roughing — gas line size, electrical service, venting — which is one of the first things Arrow checks on a site visit.
Does Arrow sell used hotel laundry equipment?
Yes — inspected used commercial washers and dryers, with prices listed, in our used equipment catalog. Inventory turns over, so if you don't see the size you need, sign up for the notify list or call us.
What area does Arrow cover?
Oklahoma, NW Arkansas, and the Texas Panhandle, from our Oklahoma City headquarters at 1121 N. MLK Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73117 — sales, installation, and service, since 1959.
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