Gym & Spa Towels In Sonning Collected To Schedule

Yes — Sonning sits on the RG4 round, 7 days, 27.6 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Charvil, Woodley and Twyford — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single studio sensible to price.
• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens, which is what 27.6 miles buys you.
• 2 clubs and spas around RG4 are already on this round — so the vehicle is sized for towel volume rather than adapted to it.

We count at peak, because that is the only hour the count has to survive. 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 — an hour on the Sonning floor at peak tells us more than a year of delivery notes.
• A Monday evening and a Sunday morning are different businesses — which is why the count is taken twice rather than once.
• January is planned in — a Sonning 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. 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 — clubs often start on hire and move the spa side across once branding is settled.

Yes. One collection, two specifications. 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 — 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.

No long-term tie-in and no exit fee. Nothing in the agreement is designed to make leaving awkward.

• 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 — the count and the quote commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — the two overlap by design.
• If it is not working, say so — the fix is usually a number on the sheet rather than a new contract.

Because the wash was wrong, not because the towel is finished. A towel can pass inspection dry and fail it in use, because oil only announces itself once the towel warms up.

• 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 — which means you are replacing stock that had life left in it.
• Every load is temperature logged — which matters if you are ever asked to show how stock is handled.

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 — 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.

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 Sonning before quoting — rather than pricing off your last invoice.
• The count includes January — peak months are the ones the par count has to survive.
• 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.