Sunday, August 21, 2011

U-Wash EZ Coin Wash

This laundromat, located a door north of Tucson Yoga, is small, and has the charm of so many of the scruffy buildings in the area. Locals often walk or bike their laundry over, and there's always people watching to be had. If you don't like staring at chicks in yoga gear, mixed with a smattering of hippies in socks-n-sandals, you can always watch the self-inflicted sidewalk dramas of the blood bank clients across the street.
Laundry Quality:
While the dryers are cheap (a quarter gets you 15 minutes) and rather wicked hot (watch your delicates!), this laundromat suffers from a bit of the stinky in its water. When they were ripping up downtown, did they perchance nick a pipe? I have it from a denizen that she can often smell a "sulfur-y, sewer-y" smell if it's damp under the 4th Ave bridge, and that same smell comes through in the water here.   
In the end,
I probably won't wash there again, since even Downy Extra Stinky dryer sheets didn't eliminate the nose-wrinkle, even after the clothes cooled down from the nuclear-powered dryers.

Pluses:
Minuses:
  • The stinky water thing.
  • "Charming & scruffy" can be seen as "run-down and grimy" if you're not in the mood.

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