Short-Let Linen In Lee Back On The Round

You do not turn linen around on the day — you hold a set ahead. A 10am checkout and a 3pm check-in leaves about five hours. No laundry can do that reliably, ours included, and any supplier who says otherwise is describing a good week.

• Three sets per bed — one on the bed, one with us, one on the shelf — means the clean set is already in the Lee property before the guest has left. The changeover stops depending on us, or on a machine, or on the traffic.
• Collections and drops happen on the same visit, so there is no second trip and no window where a bed sits stripped waiting for a delivery.
• a 14.8-mile plant distance is what makes a same-day recovery possible if a run is disrupted — the fix is hours away, not days.
• The spare set is what protects the booking, not the supplier — which is why we size on beds before we quote.

Yes, and it has for years. Lee is an established stop on the SE12 round, 14.8 miles out from Wembley.

• Shared with Hither Green, Kidbrooke and Blackheath, so a single flat here costs us a stop rather than a journey — which is why there is no minimum order.
• 7 days collections, in a window agreed when the account opens.
• Access around Kidbrooke is planned into the route rather than discovered on the day.
• a 14.8-mile round trip keeps the recovery window short, which is what a fixed-day service actually depends on.

Either, and mixed accounts are normal. Hire from us, or we launder stock you already own — the SE12 round collects both the same way.

• Owned stock stays yours. What you paid for, you keep.
• Hire covers replacement — greying, wear and loss are ours to carry rather than a cost you absorb every season. For short lets that is usually the larger number, because linen ages in front of paying guests.
• Hire also means consistency. Every set is the same specification, so a replacement does not arrive a shade off the rest of the flat.

That is the whole point of hiring rather than buying. A replacement arrives matching what is already in the Lee flat, not a shade off it.

• Items are pulled at the check stage so the decision about whether a cover has one more stay in it is ours.
• Commercial pressing is the difference between linen that looks laundered and linen that looks slept in.
• Stains are re-treated before retirement, so a spill on a Saturday is not automatically a replacement cost on the Monday.

Three per bed is the working number for anything busier than occasional weekends, and it is what Lee hosts most often get wrong when sizing an account themselves.

• Two sets fails on a back-to-back. A Friday-to-Sunday followed by a Sunday-to-Wednesday leaves you short on the Sunday.
• A sofa bed counts as a bed — if it sleeps someone, it needs three sets like everything else.
• Towels turn faster than bed linen. They are the item that runs out first and the one nobody counts.
• Reviewed after a month of real occupancy in Lee and adjusted at no charge. Seasonal swing is expected and the level should move with it.

Access is agreed before the account opens — a key safe, a concierge, a porter's desk or a cleaner on site. In Lee it is the detail that decides whether a round runs smoothly.

• The same driver runs the round, so access is learned once rather than re-explained to a new face each week.
• Nothing is left on a doorstep. You hear about it from us within the hour rather than from a review.
• Codes and key-safe details sit on the account, not in a driver's phone, and are changed on request.

One account manager, one invoice. Property managers running several Lewisham addresses are the norm rather than the exception.

• Each property keeps its own par level, sized on its own occupancy rather than a portfolio average.
• Consolidated billing with a per-property breakdown, so you see one number and can still tell which flat is consuming what.
• Adding a property later is a change to the drop list, not a new contract, a new supplier relationship or a new price.

No — and that is a routing answer, not a favour. Lee sits on an existing round, so small accounts here cost us minutes.

• No volume threshold attached to the quote. Seasonality is yours to manage, not ours to price around.
• Growing later is a par-level change, not a renegotiation — adding a second flat does not reopen the contract.
• No exit fee. If it is not working, you say so and we collect our stock.