# Commercial Laundry Cost

> Commercial laundry costs for UK businesses: on-premises machines to buy or lease, or an outsourced laundry service. What drives the price, plus free supplier quotes.

## Key facts

- HTM 01-04 treats a laundry disinfection cycle as satisfactory when the water temperature is raised to 65°C and held for not less than ten minutes, or to 71°C for not less than three minutes.
- NHS Scotland's care home infection prevention and control manual states that domestic-type washing machines are not typically programmed with the temperature settings required for thermal disinfection, so used linen such as sheets needs a machine capable of a validated temperature disinfection stage.
- Extending or altering a water system in premises other than a house is notifiable to the water undertaker in advance under regulation 5 of the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999, which catches most commercial laundry installations.

## Key pages

- [What does a commercial laundry service cost?](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/): the main tool, answer above the fold.
- [On-premises laundry or outsourced laundry services: deciding on cost](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/on-premises-laundry-vs-outsourcing/): The comparison most businesses run wrong. Machines, staff hours, floor space and utilities against a price per kilo, plus the control and risk factors that decide it.
- [Commercial laundry equipment: sizing, gas or electric, buy or lease](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/commercial-laundry-equipment-cost/): What decides the cost of an on-premises laundry: machine capacity, cycle time, gas versus electric drying, installation services, and the buy, lease or rent question.
- [Care home laundry requirements: temperatures, equipment and evidence](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/care-home-laundry-requirements/): What a care home laundry actually has to do: HTM 01-04 thermal disinfection at 65°C or 71°C, why domestic machines fail, dirty-to-clean flow and CQC regulation 12.
- [Commercial laundry running costs: where the money actually goes](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/commercial-laundry-running-costs/): Water, heat, drying, detergent, labour and servicing. How to build a cost per kilo for your own laundry, and how to test an outsourced quote against it.
- [What sets a commercial laundry bill, 2026](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/#data): original data table, updated 2026-08-14.
- [Full site content as markdown](https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/llms-full.txt)

## Data

- What sets a commercial laundry bill, 2026. Methodology: This is a cost-driver table, not a price list. We publish no headline price for commercial laundry because the two routes are priced on different units entirely: machines are quoted as capital or a monthly rental against a term, and outsourced laundry is quoted per kilo, per item or per bed, with collection frequency built in. A single number covering both would be meaningless. Each row names the driver, explains why it moves the bill on either route, and gives the question that makes two quotes comparable. Rows marked with a regulation cite the source inline in the guides.
- Last updated: 2026-08-14. Every figure cites its source inline.
- Source: NHS England, HTM 01-04 Decontamination of linen for health and social care: management and provision: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Mgmt_and_provision.pdf
- Source: NHS England, HTM 01-04 publication series: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/decontamination-of-linen-for-health-and-social-care-htm-01-04/
- Source: NHS Scotland, Care Home Infection Prevention and Control Manual: https://www.nipcm.hps.scot.nhs.uk/care-home-infection-prevention-and-control-manual-ch-ipcm/
- Source: CQC, regulation 12: safe care and treatment: https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations/regulation-12-safe-care-treatment
- Source: CQC, regulation 15: premises and equipment: https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations/regulation-15-premises-equipment
- Source: The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1148/contents
- Source: The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2451/contents/made
- Source: HSE, gas safety: https://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/

## Citation

Cite as: "What sets a commercial laundry bill, 2026", Commercial Laundry Cost, https://commerciallaundrycost.co.uk/ (updated 2026-08-14).

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