Gym & Spa Towels In Cold Ash Collected To Schedule

Yes — Cold Ash sits on the RG18 round, 7 days, 43.2 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Thatcham, Hermitage and Bucklebury — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens, because of that distance.
• Multi-site operators run on staggered days, so no club is left short while another is being collected from.

No long-term tie-in and no exit fee. The account should hold because it works, not because leaving is expensive.

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — Cold Ash in January and Cold Ash in August are different clubs, and the account should say so.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — there is no cost to finding out.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — you are never between suppliers.
• If it is not working, say so — the fix is usually a number on the sheet rather than a new contract.

Because sweat and body oil build up in the fibre and a general wash does not shift them. Cold it is fine; warm and damp it is not, and that is after it has reached a member.

• Gym towelling runs on its own classification — the programme is chosen for body oil rather than inherited from whatever ran before.
• Oil needs a different temperature from sweat — and softener makes it worse by coating the fibre, which is why we do not use it on gym stock.
• Towels that stop absorbing are usually over-softened, not worn out — that is a wash problem, not a replacement problem.
• Every load is temperature logged — and the log sits against your account, not a general plant figure.

Every Cold Ash club loses towels, and an account that pretends otherwise turns into a monthly argument about counts.

• Expected loss is built into the par count at setup — rather than discovered in month three.
• You get the actual numbers each cycle — not a statement that only makes sense to us.
• A sudden jump in loss is worth knowing about — it usually means a change on the floor rather than a laundry problem.
• On hire, fair wear is our cost — greying and thinning are ours to replace.

There is no honest price list for towel work. Two clubs with the same membership can differ twofold in towel usage depending on the floor.

• We count a real week in Cold Ash before quoting — rather than pricing off your last invoice.
• The count includes January — which is the one spike everybody knows is coming and most quotes ignore.
• No minimum order — so a boutique studio is an ordinary account and is priced per item like any other.
• The count and the quote cost nothing — there is no cost to finding out what it would look like.

The par count is set on your busiest two hours, not on an average day. A Cold Ash floor gets through more between five and seven than across the rest of the day combined.

• We count on site at the time it matters — an hour on the Cold Ash floor at peak tells us more than a year of delivery notes.
• A Monday evening and a Sunday morning are different businesses — the par level has to survive both, so it is set against the worse of the two.
• January is planned in — new-year membership is the most predictable spike in the trade and should never be handled as an emergency.
• If you run short twice, the count is wrong — a second shortage is a counting error, not bad luck.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. One collection covers whichever way each line is set up.

• Hire — we own the stock, replace what wears out and carry the cost of a towel that greys in month two.
• Wash-only — the same towels that left Cold Ash, never swapped into general stock.
• Most clubs split it — hired gym towels where nobody reads a label, own-branded robes in the spa where the branding is the point.
• You can move a line between the two later — clubs often start on hire and move the spa side across once branding is settled.

Yes. One collection, two specifications. A gym floor wants volume and absorbency; a spa wants handle and appearance.

• Robes are laundered to keep their handle — which is a different process from turning round sweat towels at volume.
• Bath mats run on a heavier classification — than towelling, and mixing the two shortens the life of both.
• One collection, one invoice — the split is in the classification, not in the account.
• Hotel spas are a normal account — with one account manager across both.