News & Advice (2020)

At CLEAN we are focused on providing the highest standard of cleanliness for our customers and their guests. To ensure the highest standards are achieved for our linen and towelling items, we utilise thermal disinfection and swabbing measures within our laundering process.

Leading laundry supplier CLEAN has secured a PRIM Bronze Award by the Proactive Risk Intervention Management (PRIM) Fleet Standards.

CLEAN’s Slough Laundry has been awarded a RoSPA Silver Fleet Safety Award, which champions excellence and improvement in the key area of managing occupational road risk.

Commercial laundries play an essential part in helping the hospitality industry function, and we need to ensure our industry survives this crisis to be able to support the re-opening phase plus the longer term requirements for our hospitality customers in the post-corona economy, says Kevin Godley, CEO of CLEAN.

CLEAN is awarded its eighth consecutive RoSPA Gold Medal Award for maintaining high standards in health and safety.

Often cited as a bold design choice, naked tables are now popular in many restaurants and cafés all over the world. In recent years, it has become trendy even for expensive and exclusive dining establishments to serve meals on bare tabletops, foregoing crisp and pristine table linen to give the illusion of modern and sleek design.

At CLEAN, we know how hard housekeeping teams work to prepare rooms for guests, which is why we do everything we can to support them by providing high quality, clean linen and towelling.

Whether you have stayed in a modest, city centre hotel or an ultra-luxurious country house, there is one element of your room that will be consistent in both – white bedsheets.

While we have already established that higher thread count doesn’t mean higher quality material and Egyptian cotton isn’t always the stamp of ultimate luxury in our previous myth buster articles, the question about softness and quality of bedlinen also comes down to a choice of two types of weave: percale or sateen.

The laundry sector plays an integral part in allowing many businesses to function. Throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we have continued to serve both workwear customers that have remained open and those hospitality customers that have remained open to provide accommodation to key workers.

For centuries, Egyptian cotton has been hailed the best and most sought-after bed linen, with retailers, movies and the world’s wealthiest individuals depicting the linen to be the epitome of luxury. The truth is, however, that Egyptian cotton has become an over-used term that now stretches across a range of fabrics and doesn’t necessarily mean you are buying high-quality sheets.

Towels are definitely hard working. Constantly wet, rubbed, washed and tumble dried until they lose all sense of their original purpose. Having spent money on fluffy, absorbent, colourful towels, it is disappointing when they quickly become faded, thin and worn, with little absorbency, ready for the rag pile.

Thread count has been given a huge importance in the world of bedding. Manufacturers and marketers use high thread counts as an indicator of quality, shouting about 600, 800 or 1000 thread count sheets as if they are the epitome of luxury.

CLEAN’s Yeovil laundry has partnered with Youth Hostel Association (YHA) to donate 6,500 pieces of linen to St. Joseph’s School in Salisbury and HMP Guys Marsh in Shaftesbury to support their efforts to create personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline NHS staff.

The safety of our customers, laundry teams and partners is of paramount importance to CLEAN.

CLEAN has recognised and celebrated the outstanding talent of the team through our annual employee recognition awards.

We recently celebrated 15 years of providing a first-class service and linen at our Ross-on-Wye laundry site