Gym & Spa Towels In Inkpen Collected To Schedule

Yes — Inkpen sits on the RG17 round, 7 days, 52.0 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Kintbury, Hamstead Marshall and Hungerford — 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.

It is quoted, not tariffed. Towel volume depends on member numbers and how hard the floor turns over, so a published list would be wrong for most clubs.

• We count a real week in Inkpen 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 — a small Inkpen studio pays the same per towel as a club ten times the size.
• The count and the quote cost nothing — there is no cost to finding out what it would look like.

By counting against your peak rather than your daily average. Towel demand does not spread evenly across opening hours — it stacks, and an average hides exactly that.

• We count on site at the time it matters — the invoice records what you were sold, not what the rack needed.
• A Monday evening and a Sunday morning are different businesses — and a single number that averages them fails on the busier one.
• 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 — stock, replacement and shrinkage planning are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• 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 — it is a change to the sheet, not a new agreement.

Yes — a gym floor and a spa want opposite things from a towel. Volume on one side of the building, finish on the other.

• 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 — and they are counted separately for the same reason.
• One collection, one invoice — no second supplier for the spa side.
• Hotel spas are a normal account — with one account manager across both.

No long-term tie-in and no exit fee. We would rather keep you on the service than on the paperwork.

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — you are not held to a peak figure through a quiet quarter.
• 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 — so there is never a Inkpen evening with an empty rack.
• If it is not working, say so — we would rather correct the account than lose it.

Because the wash was wrong, not because the towel is finished. The towel smells fine cold and dry, then smells again once it is warm and damp — which a member notices before you do.

• Gym towelling runs on its own classification — Inkpen towels are classified for the soil they actually carry.
• 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 — so there is a record behind the classification rather than an assurance.

Towels walk. The question is whether the account expects it.

• Expected loss is built into the par count at setup — rather than discovered in month three.
• You get the actual numbers each cycle — in and out, per collection, so the figure is checkable.
• 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 — not a charge back to you.