No cycle heats the water: ozone disinfection stands in for the heat. So whites and colours can go in the same machine, with nothing fading and nothing shrinking. All that is left to choose is how gently the drum should turn for your fabrics.
The rule is simple: the most fragile item in the drum decides, both for the wash and for the dry. Tick what you have and the rest follows.
Tick as many as you like. The most fragile one wins.
Every cycle washes cold, so your answer does not change the programme. It explains why.
Tell me what is in your bag
Tick at least one material on the left: the cycle to run and the dryer heat appear here, along with the reason behind them.
7 kg · everyday laundry
Cold · 32 minutes
An all-purpose cold wash. Mix whites and colours. Ozone disinfects right through (bacteria, dust mites, viruses, lice, bedbugs) and looks after your clothes.
Good for
Cold · 32 minutes
A gentler cold wash. Mix whites and colours. The drum turns more slowly to keep creasing down. Ozone disinfects (bacteria, viruses) and neutralises smells.
Good for
Cold · 32 minutes
The gentlest cold wash there is. Mix whites and colours. Minimum speed, close to washing by hand. Ozone disinfects without heat (bacteria, dust mites) and spares everything.
Good for
Cold · 32 minutes
A cold wash, detergent included. Mix whites and colours. Add your own softener. Ozone takes care of the disinfection in full (viruses, bacteria, dust mites, lice, bedbugs).
Good for
In an ordinary wash it is the temperature that kills the bacteria, and along the way fades the colours and shrinks the fibres. Here, ozone disinfection does that job in cold water: 99.9% of bacteria, viruses, dust mites, lice and bedbugs killed, without heating a single degree. Your clothes last longer, and you no longer sort whites from colours.
The label sewn into the seam answers the question in three seconds. Here are the twelve symbols you might find on it, and the cycle each one points to here.
The bars under the tub say how gentle it has to be. The more bars, the more slowly the drum should turn. And since everything washes cold here, that is the only setting that matters.
Plain tub
An ordinary machine wash, nothing special required.
Everyday Ozone
Tub, one bar
A moderate cycle: slower drum, gentler spin.
Synthetic Ozone
Tub, two bars
A very gentle cycle, for fragile fibres only.
Delicate Ozone
Tub and hand
The maker asks for hand washing: better not to put it in a machine.
By hand. Delicate Ozone may do, but at your own risk.
Crossed-out tub
No washing in water at all, not even cold.
Not for the machine
The dots inside the circle give the heat allowed. Here too, the most fragile item in the drum sets the dryer for the whole load.
Three dots
Tumble dry on high heat.
High heat
Two dots
Tumble dry on medium heat.
Medium heat
One dot
Tumble dry on low heat only.
Low heat
Crossed-out square
Tumble drying not advised.
Delicate drying, or the airer
They do not decide the cycle, but they save you an unpleasant surprise afterwards.
Crossed-out triangle
No bleach or chlorine on this fabric.
Not an issue here: ozone stands in for the bleach
Iron
The dots give the iron's temperature, from one to three.
Worth a look once the laundry is dry
Circle with a letter
Dry cleaning only, at a dry cleaner's.
This one cannot be washed here
What people ask me at the terminal: which cycle to pick, what the machine will take, and how long it runs.
Wash programmes
Each machine offers 4 programmes, on the 7 kg and the 18 kg alike, so 8 in all. They all wash cold, in 32 minutes, with detergent and ozone disinfection included. What changes is how gently the drum turns:
The first three add softener automatically. You pick the cycle on the machine's screen, once you have paid at the terminal. ⏱️
The most fragile item in the drum decides, for the whole basket. 🎯
One silk blouse in a basket of cotton, and the whole drum goes on Delicate. Otherwise, wash the fragile item separately.
💡 The care label says the same: a plain tub means Everyday; one bar under the tub, Synthetic; two bars, Delicate. And the cycle finder on the Programmes page gives you the answer in four questions.
A duvet goes in an 18 kg machine (€9.50). 🛏️
Ozone disinfection takes care of things along the way, dust mites included. At the dryer, allow two or three cycles of 15 minutes, depending on how thick the duvet is.
Yes, on the Delicate Ozone programme. 👗
It runs at minimum speed, like washing by hand, and always cold: no heat to shrink your wool.
Two things to check on the label:
At the dryer, choose low heat, or the airer for a precious item.
Yes. 🎨
Because the wash is cold and ozone does the disinfecting, you can mix whites and colours on every programme.
Cold water does not make colours run, not even on something worn for the first time. And with no heat, whites do not turn grey.
No more sorting, which saves a genuine amount of time. ⏰
No problem. 👍
Pick the “NO SOFTENER” programme.
Keep the scent you are used to and still get the technology. 🌸
⚠️ Note: this programme runs at Everyday Ozone speed. For wool, silk or lingerie, stay on Delicate Ozone with its softener, or split the basket: the fragile items on Delicate, the rest on No Softener.
No, and that is on purpose. ❄️
Every wash here runs cold, with ozone technology. That is the whole idea behind the launderette:
Cold plus ozone gives you everything a hot wash gives you, and none of its drawbacks. ✨
Using the machines & timing
In four steps: 👇
The screens are available in 6 languages. With the Simply Pay app, once your balance is topped up, you start your machines from your phone without going back to the terminal.
Not sure about something on the screen? Call me and I will talk you through it live. 📞
Every wash cycle takes 32 minutes, whichever programme you choose. ⏱️
Which is fast. 🚀
These professional machines are a newer generation. 🚀
Three main reasons:
💡 On your machine at home:
The water is heated during the wash, which stretches the whole thing out considerably (often an hour and a half to two hours).
Here, in 32 minutes, your laundry is washed, ozone-disinfected and ready to dry. ✅
The base cycle is 15 minutes for €1.50. 🌀
How long you need depends on:
⏱️ Rough guide:
The 13 kg high-performance dryers are very effective. ⚡
Just as for the wash, the most fragile item decides. 🌀
💡 On the care label, the dots in the circle of the square say the same thing: three dots, high heat; two, medium; one, low. A crossed-out square: no dryer.
It is not obvious, so here is how: you pay cycle by cycle, not all at once. 🌀
The easiest way is the Simply Pay app: start another 15-minute cycle as many times as you need, in a few seconds, without getting up.
The cycles stack on their own in 15-minute blocks: run three back to back and the dryer turns for 45 minutes without stopping in between.
Reckon on one or two cycles for a load from a 7 kg machine, two or three for a load from an 18 kg machine, depending on the type of laundry. 🧺
Yes, that is the promise. ⏰
For a 7 kg machine: 32 minutes to wash + 15 to 30 minutes to dry = laundry clean, dry and disinfected in under an hour. ✅
For a duvet or an 18 kg machine, allow a little longer: two or three dryer cycles.
Which is the whole point. 🎯
Of course. 😊
There are two proper chairs so you can wait in comfort, and a large folding table cleaned every day, with hooks to hang your bags on.
And you are a minute away from:
You can also use the time to sort out a parcel through our Mondial Relay or Parcel Pending lockers. 📦
Don't worry, it is kept safe. 🧺
Forgotten laundry is put aside in the launderette's storeroom until someone comes to claim it.
Message me on WhatsApp or give me a call, describing your laundry and the machine number, and we will arrange a time for you to come and collect it. 📅
– Maxime
Yes. 🔔
The Simply Pay app sends you an alert when the cycle ends.
Other things it is good for:
Genuinely useful. 🎯
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