Concerns for the New Hampshire laundry room

by Samantha DeSouza
edited by Tyler Peterson

The washers and dryers in the New Hampshire laundry room continue to break and cause residents issues.

Located on the bottom floor on New Hampshire, the laundry room contains five washing machines and six dryers. With all New Hampshire residents using the facilities, and some using the machines incorrectly, it has caused an issue in the amount of time it takes to complete students laundry.

(Photo: Samantha DeSouza)

Freshman Lauryn Rogers said, “Most of the time when I use the dryers, they don’t dry my clothes causing me once to put my clothes in the dryer for three cycles adding up to three hours.”

With students having to use a single dryer for three cycles, it causes a ripple effect causing the time each student will spend doing laundry to increase.

The school has fixed the unusable machines, but with misuse of the machines, they become broken again. One problem is over packing the machines, which causes them to break.

Despite the problems, one student had a positive remark. Freshman Lauren Christensen said, “Something I really like about doing laundry here is being able to check the app to see if washers and dryers are available.”

Franklin Pierce’s laundry room availability can be accessed through the Raven Nation app and using the Laundry View application. One can see which machines are open and how many minutes are left on machines in use.

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To start my research, I went down to the laundry room and observed and asked students that were currently down there what their experience with the laundry room had been this year. I took visits to the room a few times a day for different amounts of time so I could see and reach different a larger audience to better understand.

To conduct my interviews, I spoke to a few different people that I saw doing their laundry. I spoke to one student who was doing multiple loads, one student who had to put their clothes back in the dryer after they were supposed to be done, and a student who was new to the building.