M&M Coin Laundromat

I hate to write negative reviews, but this place doesn’t deserve anything positive. For starters, it’s pricier than most other laundromats, and the equipment is old (also, no wifi). Second, they don’t seem to care much about the cleanliness of the facility, or the units themselves. Third, the hours on the door are listed as closing at 10:00 pm, but that is certainly not the case. Months back, I saw on Unilocal that they were open (it was 9:30 pm). Cool. I’ll swing by and get a quick load done. As soon as I walk in the door, a short older gentleman runs over and says «we’re closed.» But, the sign on the door says 10, I asked with confusion. He explained that the washers are cut off at 9. Ok then, maybe post a sign somewhere in facility? No.
Fast forward a few months later, and I thought I’d try again later in the evening. This time it was exactly 8:22 upon my arrival. As soon as I enter, the same man comes running over (literally), telling me that they’re closed. But the sign on the door says ten, I explained. The washers stop at 8:00, he retorted. First you tell it’s 9, and now it’s 8? What horse sh! t. The hours on the door are clearly subject to change based on the convenience of the old man. It’s a shame for those in the neighborhood who do not have on site laundry and are forced to use facilities like this one. Two thumbs down. I will not be coming back here.

This place is horrible. It used to be amazing, now it is creepy and rude. More than once have employees pulled my clothes from the washer and dropped them in a basket, rather than wait a few minutes for me to remove them myself and place them in a dryer.
The hours are never correct. The sign on the front door clearly states the laundromat is open between 7am-​10pm daily ( Unilocal is currently signifying it is «Open Now» at 9:42pm), however, I have gone to retrieve my clothes at 9:30pm to find the doors locked, the lights off, and my clothes stuck in the dryer overnight.
This is infuriating, especially because prices have recently gone up (from $ 3.50 to $ 4.00 on the industrial machines and from $ 1.50 to $ 2.00 on the single load washers). Yesterday, I attempted to do laundry in one of the industrial machines at the new price of $ 4.00. After inserting coins and laundry detergent, stepping away, and returning a half hour later, I found my laundry had never been washed! The machine was broken. When I asked for my $ 2.00, the employee made me fill out a form with my name and the reason why. This incident delayed my laundry, for which another employee yelled at me later in the evening for doing laundry late.
One of the male employees creeps around people doing laundry, and once hovered over me folding clothes for 20 minutes, breathing heavily and not talking. It was extremely uncomfortable and I think he was drunk.
I have no idea who the owners are, but this place is awful.

This is a good laundromat or lavanderia. It’s clean, well-​lit, and inexpensive. It attracts a wholesome, family-​orientated clientele.
It isn’t usually very crowded so you won’t have problems finding an open machine. They have double and triple load washers.
Don’t expect the hot water setting on washers to work or for the service attendant to speak English. If you are okay with these idiosyncrasies, then you’ll problem find this laundromat acceptable.
The laundromat offers a drop-​off service but I’ve never used it.
This laundromat, while not perfect, served its purpose. I intend to continue using it when necessary.

After trying several laundromats in the area, I settled on M&M because frankly they’re the cheapest. I was fine with the lack of A/​C, wifi, & friendly staff until today when the staff (owners?) mistook me trying to find out why my machine was leaking & asking if I was going to have to wash it again as some sort of challenge. «You mistake! You mistake!» She said to me repeatedly when I was merely trying to figure out how to ensure my laundry would actually be clean after it mostly spilled out and was reset with no time. Even if it was my mistake, implying there’s nothing wrong with clearly badly maintained machines and scolding customers because you can’t understand them is not a pro move.

Very little hot water runs into each of the washers in this laundromat. Don’t expect much in a hot water wash. The washing drum in my latest load of white-​and-​light-​colored laundry filled about two cups of hot water after eight minutes into the cycle.
This has been the fact every time I’ve been here. It’s the only laundromat within a mile of my apartment, and I don’t feel like paying for a car share service reservation (I don’t own a vehicle) just to do laundry, so I’m sort of a captive customer.
Today four of the eight smallest-​load-​size (currently $ 1.50/wash) were out of order. I had to wait for another customer to finish their wash to use one, because I only had white-​and-​light-​colored laundry for a very small load this time, and rarely ever had much more (who has so much light/​white-​colored laundry?)
When I saw how little water was in the drum after eight minutes running my load, I went and told the attendant I wanted to switch to another same-​sized washer for hopefully better results (newly-​freed-​up by another customer since my wash had been running). To add insult to injury, the attendant said no, and smiled while doing so, without any understanding of the facility’s responsibility for providing poor service.

Nice little laundromat until clueless people waiting for a table at Over Easy next door use it as their own personal waiting area.

Cheap. Not crowded. Free street parking (unlike the more highly rated, smaller, more expensive place down Damen). Lots of washers and dryers. The dryers aren’t as fast as other places I have been. Spanish language TV on in the corner. Poor climate control. Basically everything one might expect from a laundromat, only cheap and convenient.

Not to expensive, ample washers, dry is reasonable, friendly staff, Tela Novela’s on the TV.
It does the trick when you need to do laundry in the neighbourhood.

I was not a fan, the first vending machine stole my money, the second dispensed stale m&ms. How do m&ms get stale you ask? I have no idea, but they broke apart like powdered chocolate and tasted like a combination of coffee and chalk. To make matters worse, there was a huge shortage of seating and very little space to fold. Drying is not free like it is at many nearby places.

I’ve yet to find the perfect laundromat, but this one is pretty good.
First of all, it’s cheap. I’ve put off doing laundry for a while and hauled it over here and have been able to wash a TON of it in the second biggest machines with no problem and for only $ 3.00.
If you hit at the right time (try a weekday in the morning or Friday night) you can pretty much have the place to yourself.
My only complaint is that some of the dryers kinda suck. It is best to separate your stuff out a lot more than you’d like to if you want to dry it quickly.

Not too impressed with the place. If you’re going to do it yourself, it’s relatively inexpensive and only takes about 90 minutes. Would be nice to have a little air conditioning or better operating fans on these hot days. Today I wasn’t in the mood to do my laundry so I used the drop off service. Not worth the price when it’s more than double the cost to do it myself. When I picked it up, they didn’t bother drying one piece even though I gave no instruction not to. The piece of clothing stunk and I asked to put it in the dryer with a dryer sheet on low heat (which is what I asked all my laundry to be dried at). The lady put it in at high heat so now I’m concerned they did so with the rest of my clothes. But probably the real reason why I wouldn’t go back is when I watched the woman working there refuse to refund a woman money when she tried to use a machine that wasn’t marked as broken. I’ll try the other laundromat down the street.

I’m writing this review as I sit here doing laundry. Very clean tons of machines. Well lit and quiet.
Prices:
Junior load washers: $ 1.50
35lb washer: $ 2.50
40lbs washer: $ 3.00
50lb washer: $ 3.50
50lb Dryer: 25 cents per 10 mins
3 weeks of laundry: clothes, towels, sheets (I’m bad I don’t separate)
3 weeks of laundry= 1 35 lb washer + 30 mins dryer = $ 3.25
Time taken to wash/dry=50 mins
3 weeks of laundry in the washer/​dryers in my building=$ 5
Time taken to wash/dry=1h 20 mins
–Newer front loading washers with clear doors to watch your laundry (dryers too)
–Plenty of folding tables and carts
–Helpful attendant
–Machines selling laundry detergent/​softener and snacks/​soda
All reasons why I will continue to walk the .2 miles from my apartment to this laundromat with my huge suitcase full of clothes.

With almost 40 dryers and many washers of all sizes, this place is great. I usually put off my laundry for too long but I can still fit all of it in a single washing machine there, which I believe is a 50 pound washer, for $ 3.50! The washers always work well and I’ve never had a problem with them. As for the dryers, they are newer and also dry incredibly, and for a quarter you get 10 minutes. Really great rates for great machines.
The ladies who work there are always nice and considerate, even helping me with the door and are always tidying up the place. It can get busy in there, but never enough where I’m struggling to find a washer, dryer, or laundry cart. There are also a few vending machines in there which has always been well stocked and fairly cheap.
I’ve never used their drop off service but they are always working on laundry as well, taking care of everything as if it were their own. If I’m not mistaken I think I heard the lady say $ 8/​lb, but I could be wrong. I’m adding their phone number so you can call if you need to.
Usually there’s parking in front, but if you take the alley that runs behind the laundromat there are about a dozen parking spots.

These ladies do my laundry, and do it well. The wash-​n-​fold service is not a fancy operation — no computers, cash only, a mild language barrier — but it’s still effective. I drop a bag off in the morning, and it’s *always* ready the next day like clockwork, everything neatly folded. They’ve never lost or ruined anything (though I never give them fancy items). My bill is around $ 15 every two weeks, and considering I despise the drudgery of laundry, the cost of outsourcing is redeemed by saved time and frustration.

I got locked out of our basement where our washing machines and dryers are. I had EIGHT LOADS of laundry to tackle (babies don’t play when it comes to laundry) and needed to get it done ASAP. I remembered that there was a laundromat next door to Over Easy and convinced some friends that they wanted to breakfast there while I snuck over before hand to get some laundry going in the wash.
As you can imagine, 8 loads of laundry is an impressive amount. Luckily my friend was waiting when I pulled up and was able to watch the baby as I dragged it all in. Here is the best part: when the woman who was working there saw me coming, she ran over TO HELP ME. This woman was easily in her 50’s and yet she helped me drag all my laundry to the machines, even though I protested. I thanked her profusely. She even advised me as to which machines were going to give me a better bang for my buck. Nice!
I got it all going and went to breakfast with my friends. When we were done, I ran next door and switched it all to the dryers. A new woman was working there, an elderly Asian woman, and she was absolutely fantastic too. She spent most of the time we were waiting for the clothes to dry entertaining my baby and then when I pulled it all out she came over and HELPED ME FOLD everything! Whaaaaaaa? YES! She didn’t speak any English but I thanked her over and over again.
I was able to get those 8 loads done and folded in less than 3 hours. If I had done it at home, it would have taken me literally ALL DAY LONG to get all that done. On top of it, it was cheaper than the coin operated ones in our building and I don’t have to lay damp clothes all over the house because the dryer sucks. Everything was cleaner, dryer and therefore, more awesome.
Laundromats are brilliant and this one is especially bitchin’.