When I first went to LOS one of the local laundries - if you can call it that, a little old lady on her own with a sign in front of her house - did all my stuff for 30 baht a kilo, washed and ironed. 30 or 40 baht washed and ironed is still the going rate around Chiang Mai. She never lost anything, I never ended up with anyone else's stuff.
In the smaller, cheaper studios (the likes of the Night Bazaar Condos I've mentioned previously) there is no washing machine. You don't really need a dryer in these temperatures, despite the humidity.
I did buy a washer a year back, but that's because as a family of three even at 30 baht a kilo it adds up, plus my w2b insists on doing it all herself anyway. Had I still been single, it would have taken about a year and a half at 30 baht a kilo to rack up the price of a cheap washing machine... and I would have had to do all the ironing.
On a vaguely linked topic, I needed some t-shirts shortening, they seem to make Ls and XLs so that they come down to your knees these days - and I'm not short at 6 foot. Walked past a place with a couple of people working their sewing machines the other night, so thought I would give them a try. Gave them six t-shirts to do - cost me 20 baht per t-shirt and they did a very good job. Wonder how much that would cost back in Europe.
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