Gym & Spa Towels In Pratts Bottom On The Leisure Round

Yes — Pratts Bottom sits on the BR6 round, 7 days, 22.9 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Chelsfield, Orpington and Farnborough — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single studio sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around Knockholt — the same crew runs it weekly, so nobody is looking for your service entrance.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, because Pratts Bottom is only 22.9 miles out.
• 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 — Pratts Bottom in January and Pratts Bottom in August are different clubs, and the account should say so.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — the count and the quote commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so there is never a Pratts Bottom evening with an empty rack.
• If it is not working, say so — most problems are a wrong par count or a wrong delivery window, and both are fixable without changing supplier.

It is oil left in the fibre, not the towel being old. 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 — the programme is chosen for body oil rather than inherited from whatever ran before.
• Oil needs a different temperature from sweat — softener is the usual culprit: it smells pleasant and stops the towel drying anything.
• 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 Pratts Bottom 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 — so the rack does not empty because the maths assumed nothing walked.
• 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 — and we would rather flag it than absorb it quietly.
• On hire, fair wear is our cost — not a charge back to you.

Priced on your peak and your member numbers, not off a rate card. Two clubs with the same membership can differ twofold in towel usage depending on the floor.

• We count a real week in Pratts Bottom before quoting — including the evening peak, which is where every estimate falls over.
• The count includes January — a Pratts Bottom club quoted off an August week runs short in the month that matters.
• No minimum order — size barely moves the per-item price.
• 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. Every other hour looks fine on any count, which is why averages keep passing and racks keep emptying.

• We count on site at the time it matters — an hour on the Pratts Bottom floor at peak tells us more than a year of delivery notes.
• 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 — a Pratts Bottom club in January is not the same club in August, and the account should say so.
• 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. The two sit on one invoice and one round.

• Hire — the rack is maintained for you, including the towels that fail first.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• Most clubs split it — the logo matters on a robe, rarely on a sweat towel.
• 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 — a gym floor and a spa want opposite things from a towel. The gym side is judged on whether the rack is full; the spa side on how the robe feels.

• Robes are laundered to keep their handle — a robe that feels like a gym towel has been washed like one.
• 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 — the bed linen side can go on the same round.