Valley Stores Coin Laundry

The Look: Zombie Apocalypse + 1,000 years.
It’s completely astonishing that this is the condition of a laundromat in such a nice part of town. You would expect this from a Lavanderia in the hood but guess what, those are actually really nice!
Everything looks like it’s been through a fire, wood-​chipper, hurricane, and drive-​by shooting. Would make a great backdrop for an underground fight club.

Ok let me start by saying I’m not coming into this laundromat looking for much besides working machines. Beyond that it’s pretty much fluff… Haha get it? Fluff? Like fluff n fold? Ok I’ll stop. I’ll say that this place is usually not very busy and I can normally get out without spending more than $ 5. Cool. But it’s everything else that makes coming here the worst. If it wasn’t so close to my house or if my building offered a better solution than this I would gladly entertain other locations. My building has 2 of each machine in a dungeon of a room next to the buildings water boiler. I could have sworn at one time I saw a precious tenant chained to a pipe in there for failure to pay rent. I digress
The oddest perhaps most off-​putting part of the laundry experience is that there is this woman that lurks in the parking lot making sure all who leave their car in the lot are true patrons of «The Valley Stores Plaza». She will go as far as to follow you into the laundromat. Hey lady, I’m carrying a full basket of clothes, wearing a Pokemon shirt and those Adidas shorts you bought in the 90s because you had the freshest style and now they just match nothing. This ain’t no business meeting, clearly it’s laundry day!

I can’t recall the last time I had to go to laundromat, if ever but this was quite an experience after our washer died on us. The only reason I came here was because of Aroma café which is walking distance. Washers and dryers managed to do the job but the place is just OLD. Everything is dusty and dirty. The place is falling apart and needs major update!

Let me start this review by saying if I could give a half star, I would. The ONLY good thing about this laundromat is the location. There are only TWO front load washes, costing $ 4 each. Front load machines are SUPPOSED to extract more water from clothes than the top loaders, BUT clothes come out WET, not damp. To remedy this you must split your laundry up amongst the 16 dryers… here’s where it gets fun folks! On a regular basis at least 2 dryers are marked out of order, leaving 14 dryers to gamble on… out of the 6 dryers we were using, TWO actually worked, and by worked, I mean got hot… SERIOUSLY guys, take a little pride in your business. I’ve given multiple chances, all leading to disappointment. Time to find a new laundry joint.

This certainly takes the cake for being the most crap, dilapidated, customer averse coin operated laundry I have ever had the misfortune to use.
Please take note of the reasons why. First, the place is dirty. Second, there are many dryers however only 2 of them produce heat. I paid over $ 2.00 to get a towel dry — and it’s still damp to the touch. Third, several of the dryers are out of order but the signs are missing or not placed over the correct dryer. Fourth, the place seems to be a hangout for local nail businesses doing all of their laundry and socializing. This means that the dryers that do work are monpolized by people with loads and loads of white towels. Fifth, one of the change machines swallowed a dollar bill and there is not telephone number to call to get your money back.
I would strongly suggest that you take your business elsewhere or bring a copy of Crime and Punishment with you so you can make a decent sized dent on reading it!

ewww… this place is dirty. it seems a little ironic that it’s a place you go to, to get things cleaned when it’s this dirty. it’s also really expensive, and the business hours are never reliable. the wash cycles are really short and the dryers are a quarter per 10 minutes, and after a full hour of having my clothes in there, they were still damp.

This place is run down and dirty. Only the $ 4 machines really get your clothes clean, and there is mold growing in the softener compartment. Most of the dryers smell bad, and the last time I was there I had to wait for machines forever because the guy who works there left his clean clothes sitting in the machines for half an hour after they were finished. Fail.

Ladies and gentlemen of Unilocal,I present to you the most dilapidated laundrymat in the entire San Fernando valley!
The only thing that has been updated, cleaned or replaced here are the hand written signs posted all over the walls. They provide patrons with the same sort of loving scolding you’d get if you took your laundry to your grandmothers house, only without the warmth and charm of actually BEING with ones Nana.
For instance, one urges you not to overload machines, as «overloading causes expensive damage.» Clearly the last thing the owners of this business would like to do is invest any amount of money into it, as evidenced by the pictures of the bathroom that I have posted.
Another sign, above a filthy sink surrounded by warped Formica, reads «wash hands only Do not wash clothes in sink».
Well, I would have loved to scrub my hands after paying a quarter to use the bathroom (did I mention yet that the toilet in said bathroom has no lid on the tank?), however, I couldn’t wash my hands either in the bathroom or at the sink, as there is no handsoap to be found here!
For $ 1.50 per wash, and $ 0.25 for ten minutes in the dryer, I feel like I should be able to wash my hands. I know, I’m a cheap bastard, aren’t I?
Seriously though, charge me $ 0.50 to pee and put some frickin soap in the lou!!! Shame on y’all!!!
Let me also mention that whoever designed the layout of this laundromat must have serious trouble with basic math skills. There are at least 25 washing machines (all of standard size, and again for emphasis, $ 1.50 per load) and only 16 dryers.
A *helpful* sign over the dryers urges you to split one load of wet laundry into two dryers… but there are twice as many washers as there are dryers, so how is that supposed to work? Personally, I’d feel like a jerk using six dryers for my three loads of laundry.
So instead, I waited through FIVE ten minute cycles and left with damp jeans and towels.
On the way out, I noticed a trash can (again, pictures posted above) which looked as though someone had shat in it. Suddenly the fact that the entire place smells like cat litter made more sense to me.
I wish I could do my laundry here in the future, as it’s right next door to Press, my favorite sandwich place. However, this place is so vile, not even an amazing grilled cheese sandwich could entice me to come back!

Oh haaaayyy let me pay the same price I would for drop-​off service and spend an hour just washing these clothes myself.
Valley Stars Coin Laundry why are your washers so tiny? They only hold about half as much laundry as most places but cost $ 1.50. So I’m going to need a shit-​ton of quarters to pay for the 10 washers I need and you’re going to help me out with that right? …No, because your change machine won’t accept twenties or the «new» five dollar bill.