Changeover Linen In London Bridge 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 London Bridge 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 9.4-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, and it is the cheapest insurance in the whole arrangement.

London Bridge is already on the round. The van passes 9.4 miles from the Wembley plant whether you are on it or not.

• Shared with Southwark, Billingsgate and Bridge, 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 Mansion House is planned into the route rather than discovered on the day.
• a 9.4-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 SE1 round collects both the same way.

• Owned stock stays yours. We do not buy it off you at a discount to simplify the paperwork.
• 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.

It should, and that is measurable. One specification means the linen a London Bridge guest photographs in year two matches the listing shot from year one.

• Items are pulled at the check stage when they grey or fray, and replaced from stock before a guest sees them.
• Commercial pressing flattens a duvet cover in a way no home machine reproduces, and it is what the camera picks up.
• Stains are re-treated before retirement, so a spill on a Saturday is not automatically a replacement cost on the Monday.

Three, per bed, every time. Two is the number most London Bridge hosts start with and the number that fails them on the first busy fortnight.

• Two sets fails on a back-to-back. It works until the week it matters, which is the week you are fully booked.
• A sofa bed counts as a bed — the most commonly missed set, and always missed on the busiest weekend rather than a quiet one.
• Towels turn faster than bed linen. One guest can get through four in a weekend, which is why towel stock is sized separately.
• Reviewed after a month of real occupancy in London Bridge 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 London Bridge it is the detail that decides whether a round runs smoothly.

• The same driver runs the round, which is why a code given in week one still works in week thirty.
• Nothing is left on a doorstep. If access fails, the drop moves to the next visit and you are told the same day — not discovered by a guest.
• Codes and key-safe details sit on the account, not in a driver's phone, and are changed on request.

One contact for the portfolio. Adding a Southwark address is a line on the drop list, not a second relationship.

• Each property keeps its own par level, because a studio and a three-bed do not turn at the same rate.
• 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. London Bridge 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.