The coats hang on the hooks by the lab door until someone takes a pile home, or nobody does. Send them to us instead. We collect lab coats and white coats from labs and clinics across San Diego County, wash them at our own facility and bring them back clean, pressed if you ask.
Consider a twelve-person research lab. Every bench has a coat on the hook by the door, and most of them have been on that hook since Monday.
The safety plan says coats don’t leave the building. There is no laundry arrangement yet, so a few people fold theirs into a backpack next to their lunch anyway, and a few keep wearing the one with blue indicator dye on the cuff.
A clinic gets there by a different road: white coats washed at home on Sunday night, pressed by whoever owns an iron, and an office manager who would rather the practice handled it.
Nobody planned it this way. A coat is just small enough that nobody owns the job.
We clean coats that your organization or your staff own. Coat rental and exchange programs are a different kind of service, and we don’t run one. For anything else a business sends, see our commercial laundry service.
Hip-length and knee-length coats in everyday bench use, worn over street clothes. Tell us roughly how many there are and whether they carry name tags or department labels, so the quote can say how they come back to you.
Clinic coats that people want crisp. Pressing is an add-on listed on our pricing page, and the quote confirms how pressed coats are returned. Scrubs, gowns and exam linens need a different review, which our medical office laundry page explains.
These come with their own care instructions. Send the label or the maker’s care sheet with your request, and the quote confirms whether we can follow it before any are collected.
Cleanroom garments worn in ISO-classified rooms need a certified cleanroom laundry, and we don’t offer that. Coats contaminated with radioactive material, asbestos or hazardous chemicals stay with your safety team’s disposal or decontamination procedure, and single-use coats are thrown away rather than laundered.
When a coat is protective equipmentIs this coat protective equipment in your lab? The answer decides who is responsible for laundering it and how it should travel. That call belongs to your safety officer, not to us.
Where coats are required personal protective equipment under California’s bloodborne pathogens standard, the employer cleans, launders and disposes of them at no cost to the employee.
The same standard says contaminated laundry is bagged where it was used, is not sorted or rinsed there, and travels in labeled or color-coded bags that don’t leak when the laundry is wet.
ArtiClean ozone is part of our standard wash for every load. It is not a decontamination step and doesn’t replace your lab’s own procedures. Marks from indicator dyes, iodine and reagents vary, so we don’t promise that every one will come out.
Keep a laundry bag by the coat hooks or in the locker room. People drop a worn coat in on pickup day and take a clean one, and the number of spares you need depends on the return day.
Most labs don’t want visitors past the badge door, so we agree on a spot first: a front desk, a loading dock or a shipping and receiving room. Pickups run Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to 12pm. Tell us how often you need pickup; the quote confirms the schedule.
We wash coats at our family-run facility in commercial Maytag and Speed Queen washers, ozone included. Pick the detergent: Tide, Gain, All Free & Clear, Seventh Generation or Persil. Pressing is available for coats that need to look sharp.
Standard wash-and-fold orders are ordinarily back the next business day. For a lab’s regular weekly volume, the quote sets the return day and says whether coats come back folded or on hangers.
Business accounts don’t have a published rate. Your quote follows the three things our pricing page names for every business, which are the items, the weekly volume and the pickup frequency. Pressing is listed there as an add-on.
Everyday coats, white coats, protective coats and any scrubs or uniforms that travel with them, with a count of each.
Coats are light, so a small lab’s week may fall below the business program range. Weigh one week’s bag and send the figure; the quote says how a smaller volume is handled.
Pressed or not, and how often we collect. Weekly suits most labs, and a busy clinic may want more. Both are settled in the quote.
Cancel whenever you like.
Available after the third month.
The weekly business range shown on our pricing page.
With weekly pickup and coats back two working days later, each person needs one coat to wear, one in the bag and one spare for spills: three coats. A twelve-person lab would keep 36 in rotation. Swap in the return day from your own quote.
One clinician with a few white coats? Say so in the form, and we’ll suggest the simplest way to send them.
Coats leave the lab on a set day and come back on another. Nobody carries one home, and nobody keeps wearing the one with dye on the cuff.
To start, send your lab or practice name, ZIP code, how many people wear coats and how often they change them, plus anything protective or potentially contaminated. The reply covers what we accept, the pickup day and the return day. Check your address on our service areas page if you’re not sure we reach it.
Answers for lab managers, safety officers and practice managers comparing coat laundry options.
Ask about your coatsThat is your safety officer’s decision, not ours. Where coats are required protective equipment under California’s bloodborne pathogens standard, the employer is responsible for laundering them at no cost to the employee. A pickup service is one way a lab takes that on.
Not in a routine pickup. Coats with blood, body fluids or other potentially infectious material need a call before pickup; our pricing page lists a separate biohazard wash, and the quote confirms whether and how we can take them. Radioactive, asbestos and hazardous-chemical contamination stays with your safety team.
Not for use in ISO-classified cleanrooms. Those garments need a certified cleanroom laundry. Everyday lab coats worn outside classified rooms can be sent as usual.
Yes. Pressing is available as an add-on and is listed on our pricing page. Your quote confirms the price for a business account and how pressed coats come back.
Standard wash-and-fold orders are ordinarily back the next business day. A lab’s regular weekly pickup gets its own return day in writing; plan spare coats around that date.
There are no contracts, and you can cancel anytime. Net-30 billing is available after the third month. Coats are light, so send your coat count and a week’s weight and the quote will say how a small lab’s volume is handled.
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