Hospitality Linen In Aylesford Collected To Schedule

Yes — Aylesford sits on the ME20 round, 37.6 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Ditton, Snodland and Maidstone — one van, one run, which is what keeps the cost of a small account sensible.
• The driver knows the roads around Aylesford — the same crew runs it each week, so nobody is reading a map on your loading bay.
• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens, because of that distance.

No minimum. Minimums exist to cover a dedicated trip. This is not one.

• Same turnaround regardless of size — a six-room guest house gets what a 200-room hotel gets.
• No small-volume premium, because you are not the reason the van is on the road.
• Seasonal properties welcome — no reconnection fee, no renegotiation each spring.
• Nothing to escape from — if it is not working, you say so and we collect our stock. A contract you cannot leave is a contract we would rather not have.

Settled at the audit, written onto the ME20 round sheet, and not revisited on the day.

• Loading bay, service lift or back entrance — recorded against the account so a relief driver has it too.
• Timed around Aylesford so the van is not arriving into the worst of it.
• This is where new suppliers come unstuck — and it is entirely avoidable with one site visit.
• The mileage is not billed back to you — the round already passes, so an extra stop costs us minutes rather than miles.
• It is recorded against the account, not a person — you should not have to re-explain the building every August.

At our own plant in Wembley, 37.6 miles from Aylesford. Nothing is subcontracted to a third site.

• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens.
• One process, one audit — ISO 9001 and per-load temperature logs mean something because everything runs through the same building.
• You can visit. Clients who come tend to sign.
• Nothing is passed to a third party — a supplier who cannot tell you which building your linen is in cannot promise you much about how it was washed.

Both are available, and moving between them does not mean a new account.

• On hire we hold and replace the stock, including the spares you would otherwise be storing.
• Wash-only keeps your linen yours, with damaged items flagged rather than quietly retired.
• Mixed is common — most properties end up somewhere between the two.
• Stock ageing is our cost, not yours — the par level does not quietly drop over a season while nobody is counting.

A linen audit, an agreed par level, and a collection day. The nearest hotels we already collect from are the 3 in Ditton, 1.7 miles away, on the same run.

• No tender and no tie-in — you stay because it works, or you leave in a month.
• Par levels set per room type, worked out from your occupancy rather than a rule of thumb.
• The audit is free and carries no obligation.
• You do not have to be out of contract — if you are tied in, we plan the start date around it. The audit and the plan cost you nothing either way.

A standing slot, 7 days — fixed, not 'sometime that morning'.

• Same driver each week — so housekeeping hands over to someone who knows the property.
• Planned around check-out, so linen leaves as rooms are stripped.
• Changeable — if the time stops suiting you we move it.
• A missed slot is not a lost week — the plant is 37.6 miles away, so a disrupted run is a second trip rather than a note on next week's schedule.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper and simpler than separate accounts.

• One account manager across every Tonbridge and Malling site.
• One invoice, consolidated but itemised — one payment, full visibility.
• Par stock tracked per site — so a quiet property does not quietly fund a busy one.
• Consolidated billing with a per-site breakdown — the total and the split, on the same document.