LINEN ITEMS

• A washing machine is used to wash clothes by adding water, detergent, and fabric softener.
• Sheeting - when starting through sheets and pillow cases it is not uncommon to find soil tissue or guest clothing usually nightwear removed in error by the room attendant when stripping the bed
• Pillowcases - these must be separated from sheets as they are washed separately . It is much easier to separate them when dry
• Towels - this will need to be sorted from sheets as they are washed on a different wash cycles because a fiber type and degree of soiling
• Duvet covers - these these need to be sorted from the sheets as they are also processed differently
• Colored towels - sometimes if there is a spa area, massage rooms, and hair dresser within the hotel, colored towels are used. This may be heavily soaked in massage oils or hair dye and must be washed separately colored towels will always fade some over time
• Bathrobes - these will need to have the belt removed before washing otherwise they may get tangled in the wash causing damage to the belt loops on the robes
• Table linen - this must be sorted to remove food scraps, cigarette butts, cutlery, and sometimes even pieces of crockery
• Tea towels - those from the kitchen should be washed separately than those from the guest rooms and bar areas due to the grease content
• Cleaning cloths and mops - all hospitality operations require cleaning and so will have a supply of cleaning clothes and maps. This may require laundering daily.
• If bed and bath linen are found with large amounts of blood, feces, vomit l, or urine this linen should be always be treated as potentially infectious linen