The Laundry on Graham

Terrific!!!
Great same day service. I drop off my clothes in the morning and it’s ready for me in the evening. The clothes is folded impeccably and smells good. The staff is very friendly and professional. Couldn’t ask for a better neighborhood laundromat.

I dropped my laundry off at 8:30 am, i called back around 5 to see when it would be ready and they said that I could come by between 6:30– 7. I showed up at 7:15 and they told me that the laundry wasn’t folded and that I should come back in 45 minutes. I understand that laundry takes time but it was pretty inconvenient to have to wait so long for the laundry to be done, I could have just done it myself after work rather than paying 24 dollars to get it at 8pm. I told them to just bag it up unfolded because I couldn’t kill any more time in my evening (I had dinner plans). Also, they are cash only and their ATM was out of order. It’s 2016 — there are places that will pick up, wash and deliver your clean laundry to you for a comparable price. My bad though, I chose to give them my business primarily because I thought the font on their awning was kinda classy. To be fair — they did a quick fold job and got me out of there by 7:30, Thanks.

I don’t understand what some other people are complaining about. Its a Laundromat. What do you want?
Clean: Yes
Friendly: Yes
Fair Price: Yes
Ive been using them for the last few month, since my other laundromat closed down. I couldn’t be happier. In fact, now that I’ve been going there for a while, I wouldn’t really consider going anywhere else.

Some of the washing machines run a short cycle and it’s not very clear which ones run a short cycle. I put in two loads of laundry into two machines side by side. When one finished early, around 15 minutes, the attendant shrugged it off. My clothing were not as clean as I would have liked. I haven’t been back.
This neighborhood desperately needs a GOOD laundromat.
The other place on Graham (Bubble) across the street from «The Laundry on Graham» is absolutely great for drop-​off but too crowded if you want to do your own laundry. There is yet another one that is down the road, on the other side of Metropolitan that everyone hates.
There aren’t a lot of options for laundry in the immediate area. The place most convenient to me on Kingsland, out of the range of the more gentrified neighborhood, is closing. They had a shooting there a few months ago. Some guy doing his laundry was shot. Even though the neighborhood appears to have made an unspoken pact to protect their laundromat and it was never busy after the shooting, it’s not surprising that it has to close.

Denise the attendant is amazing. We’ve loved her from the first time we walked in, over four years ago. Always pleasant, always helpful, always smiles. The laundromat itself is always clean and in great working order. And now it also offers free wi-​fi. They rule!

2 Thumbs Up! Been using them for about 8yrs. Ladies are always pleasant especially in the a.m. Never have to wait for a machine. Would definitely recommend.

There should be ratings for Negative stars on this thing…
Tonight, went in to do my laundry. When it was time to dry my clothes, I found a dryer, threw my clothes in, threw some quarters in, hit start, and shut the door. That was when I saw the quarter of a post it note about one inch x one inch saying «out». I looked around and saw the same note on three other dryers in the process of spinning away. I turned to the employee and asked the woman, does that little peice of paper mean «out of order» or is that something else? She says, no it works, but it won’t dry your clothes. What??? Then it doesn’t work. Ok, so I move to another dryer and ask if she can help credit the new machine with the 30 unused minutes on the «out» machine. She says No, there is a sign. I suggest it would make more sense if a: it was taped over the quarter slot, like most laundry mats, b: the sign was a reasonable, obvious size, and c: it said «out of order» instead of just «out.» Her response was «you’re tall, you should have seen it. I’m not doing anything about it.» I’m not about to start yelling at an old woman over $ 1.25 in quarters, but I did tell her that’s the tackiest customer service I’ve ever seen and she says oh well. It was irritating enough to come home and immediately write my first Unilocal review ever. I just couldn’t believe she wouldn’t understand the obvious mistake. I’m going back to my old laundry mat. And after seeing all the bad reviews here, I’ll never come back.

This has to be the worst laundromat ever. The women who work here are so rude and yell at you! They also take up all the machines for drop off service. I would use their drop off service, but all my friends have had horrible experiences. I wish there was a better place in the neighborhood to do laundry!

I find doing laundry here to be extremely stressful. It’s a very cramped space that’s always full, and both the staff and especially other patrons tend to be exceedingly rude and forward, always barging through the narrow space between the machines and the folding tables to get from one end to the other. Further, there are never enough carts to effectively move your clothes from washer to dryer. If any of the other laundromats on Graham were any better or had real business hours they stuck to, I might consider going to them instead.

Remember when I had white tshirts? That was before I dropped them off here.

Good, same day service. A bit expensive though. 35lb. for $ 35… Might just do it myself next time.

The drop off service has taken a turn for the worse. When you get your clothes back from a laundry service they should smell fresh and clean because they are fresh and clean. Instead of that, they smell like they were washed without detergent and often come back looking not clean at all. The ladys that work there are very sweet and I hope the owners start splurging for real soap, if they do, ill be back in a heartbeat!

Ok I walk past a laundromat to go to this one, why? Well they’re open late, until 10 unlike some of the other in the area that close around 7 pm. So– if I would like to do my laundry after work there’s no need to run home like a maniac to make it in time.
Everything is always clean, and there are usually always machines open or the staff will open them for you. It’s nothing special but it does the job, and compared to some of the others I’ve really started to prefer this place. Sometimes the staff will give you a look like they don’t remember you even though you’ve been in and out all day long but whatever. I even have a dog that accompanies me and they don’t seem to mind at all or at least have never given me any grief for it.

1: if you drop your laundry off, it comes back looking like it was stuffed into the bottom of your laundry bag by an angry chimpanzee.
2: if you wash your own laundry there, their hot water isn’t turned on. «Hot» is still «Cold.» Also, the wash cycle is about 15 minutes. Skeptical? I am.
3: if you dry your own own laundry there on low, and leave the room, one of the staff members will turn it on High so that it will be done sooner with no regard for your clothes being ruined.

I went to The Laundry on Graham when I first moved to the neighborhood since it was closest to my apt.
That was the last time I went. And now for two years I’ve been walking an extra 3 blocks to go to a different laundromat.
They were just so rude. I put my stuff into the washer and came back literally one minute after it was scheduled to be done. One of the workers had taken my stuff out and I didn’t know where. I had to ask and they just told me to look for it in one of the many baskets in the shop.
After finding it, I begin to put it in the dryer but one of the workers stopped me and told me I couldn’t because it was too much for the dryer. It was a huge dryer and it would have been fine, but they made me split it into two dryers.
This all isn’t so awful, but a laundromat doesn’t need to be this strict. I also kinda get the creeps from them because they have so many people monitoring the customers to make sure they do their laundry exactly as the shop wants them to.
I call them the Nazi Laundromat.

Super overpriced (a quarter only gets 6 minutes of dry time) and SURPRISE!!! The low setting wont dry clothes. I suspected my machine was broken and when I asked the attendant why my cothes were still soaked after an hour of drying she simply grudges and said «you have it on low. You need a lot more quarters.»
$ 20 later with wet clothes, I’m over it.

I used to go here, until I realized I no longer wanted to be treated like a total ass in exchange for being allowed to do my laundry.
What sealed the deal is when I also realized that it was pretty damn expensive, like, almost twice as much what else is around. Paying extra to get jabbed at by little old women is just not my thing. Call me crazy.
That was pretty much the end of my time at Laundry on Graham.
If you want details beyond that, here you go:
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No one relishes doing laundry, so it is probably safe to assume that any added hassle beyond 1) hauling over your filthy pile, 2) stuffing it in the hole, 3) stuffing it in the other one, and 4) hauling it all back, is just squeezing lemon juice onto a paper cut. When I suddenly have to contend with an army of embittered old crones hissing loudly about their ruined lives and loveless marriages, it just makes the experience a little too rich. And you’re going to get it, every time, because they work there, they’re not happy about it, and they’re going to let you know.
In my case, they like to let me know by picking tiny little fights with me about how I am doing my laundry wrong, or how I am in their way, or what a jerk I am for asking for quarters. I am not an idiot, and I know when someone is being rude to me for sport. Look, I am a customer, it is a small space, I am a polite guy, I am 6 feet and 130lbs, I am not in anyone’s way. I am grown-​ass man, no one else has washed my clothes for 15 years, I feel confident that I can navigate the field of laundry successfully. You are just being gross, you are just unhappy, leave me alone and let me do my laundry in the relative peace of your Lifetime soap programming. Thanks. Seriously, I cannot visit this place once without a caustic interaction with one of the ladies here. It is uncanny. I am just trying to do laundry!
Given the low number of laundromats in the area, they haven’t much competition, and as a result I’ve seen more of Laundry on Graham than I would have liked to. I’ve given this place a whirl about 10 – 15 times. Every time, I get a nasty little lady shoving me around like, yep, dirty laundry. But my time here also revealed to me two other details worth mentioning, which finally made me call it quits:
1.) There are quite a few washers and dryers, but more than half are dominated by their drop-​off business. This quickly turns a fairly accommodating spot into a constant battle for space. At least some of the scorn delivered by the ladies who work here seems to be related to the fact that you are already a second-​class citizen, paying merely for self-​service laundry instead of the more expensive drop-​off. It’s a bummer to go into a store and find that the employees are using all the goods. It lets you know that you’re not welcome, and it addition, good luck getting a dryer.
2.) The prices here are literally twice as high as the two laundromats closest to me, one on Kingsland and the other just off of that street, a few blocks from Laundry on Graham. What costs me $ 7 to do at either spot costs me about $ 16 at our spot in question. I checked, and I wrote it down, for the purpose of this review. I think it’s only fair to compliment Laundry on Graham on a pair of nice outdoor seats and some good lighting, which is something the other places don’t have. But for twice the price, I’ll take a walk and come back.
Look, lots of people work unglamorous jobs, myself included, and I tend to believe that that entitles you to a little leeway when it comes to social graces. But there has to be a limit, and for me, this place crosses it every time. It confounds me how such a simple thing — walking in, stuffing some clothes in a hole, and paying the fee — should have to be so socially involved, and so negatively at that. Lame.

This is probably as excited as I can get about a laundromat.
The floors are close to impeccably clean, so when I accidentally drop a sock or shirt I don’t have to throw it into the wash again. That’s nice.

Always greeted with a smile! the gals in here wash, dry and fold my stuff. Always open and they arent «stuffy»
I good find at a reasonable price… especially when someone else is saving me my weekends…

i was skeptical of dropoff until my clothes came back impeccably folded.
I’m hooked. Highly recommended.
Regular chips in the vending machine are very cheap too.