Which is cheaper, to use the washing machine at home, or to use the local laundry?

When you use the launderette, you are paying for the electricity plus paying enough for the owner to make a profit. You cut out the profit when you wash at home. So it is cheaper to wash at home than at the launderette.

I suggest a washing machine for a lot of reasons, but reasons i'd like to point out is that if you have one at home you don't need to drive back and forth. Also you can clean bigger types of laundry at home because local laundry usually have small machines and home usually don't. You can clean more stuff at home so best bet would be get a home washing machine ;D

If you already own a washer and dryer, then less money to wash at home. Plus the added convenience of not driving the laundry to the laundromat. If you need to do 12 loads at once then it can be easier to go to the laundromat, and do it all at once. But still not less money than sitting home, and getting other things done while the wash is doing.Take care to do a load, not wash 1 shirt that you need clean for whatever.

I like to use my own. It uses electricity, but you don't have to sit and wait. You can do other things. You don't have to keep putting money in the dryer when it doesn't dry the first time. Cold water uses less energy. I found this website that might help you. I copied and pasted some of it. They also have Tables Laundry is one of the easiest areas to reduce energy costs in. Here's where the waste is: Water heating. A whopping 90% of the energy used by washing clothes often goes just to heat the water! So you can save a bundle just by changing the temperature setting. (~$150/year) I wash in cold almost exclusively. Top-loading washers. Top-loading washers use ridiculous amounts of water and energy. That's why other countries use front-loading washers instead, and I recommend them enthusiastically. I cover front-loaders in more detail below. Drying water-laden clothes. Most washing machines leave far too much water in the clothes, making the dryer run much longer. Front-loaders get more of the water out of your clothes. You can also use a Spin Dryer to extract water from your clothes before drying. Unnecessary drying. Dryers are unnecessary in the first place, since you can just hang your clothes up to dry. There's 100% energy savings to be realized here. To get the total cost per load for a washing machine, we add the costs for water, electricity, and water heating. For water, we'll figure 40 gallons for a standard top-loading U.S. washer, and the national average of $5.44 per thousand gallons, which gives us $0.22 per load for water. For electricity to power the washer, we'll figure 0.256 kWh times a sample cost of 15¢/kWh, which gives us $0.04 for electricity.

cheaper at home, the launderette have bigger machines, and hold more, but you have to get it there, and use the dryers to dry it, and lug it home again, if your mum thinks it,s a better deal, and you have to walk to get there, if she was my mum, she would be lugging it there herself!!!!

you have to listen to all your answers, they are right. At home is cheaper and a lot more handier. What you pay at the launderette will make you own washer & dryer payments. So wash at home and put your money in a jar for savings.

Its cheaper to do at home but quicker to go to the launderette. And also i just had to use the lauderette and there must have been some bleach or something in the machine i used because some of my sweat shirts came out tie dyed a bit.

At home is cheaper. At the laundromat they have to charge for the machine, the elec. the water, future repairs or replacements, the building rent and income for the owner and any employees.

My guess is it depends on how much laundry you are doing at one time. I think normal average laundry is cheaper at home, but large amounts are better handled by commercial machines. That's just my guess.