What is a commercial dryer?

A home dryer may dry 12 lbs. of clothes and last five years. A commercial dryer is built to last ten to fifteen years, used 7 days a weeks, 8 hours or more a day.

Commercial dryers are just bigger. For instance the Wascomat 83 lb. dryer uses 143,400 bTUs per hour to dry clothes. This is why hotels, nursing homes, and athletic facilities need true commercial dryers. They have carts and carts of laundry to get process.

Commercial dryers are noted for their speed to process linens. You can line up several home washers and in sum get the same capacity but a commercial dryer will dry quicker because of design. Removing moisture from linens is a product of heat and airflow. Wascomat washers have axial air flow that moves quicker through the load. With a large drum linens fall through the air more causing them to be exposed more to moving, hot air.

Common sizes of dryers are 65-67 lb and 75-83 lb. Dryers ideally should have 150% of the capacity of the washer they are paired with. For example, A 45 lb. washer pairs nicely with a Wascomat D767 dryer that has 67 lb. capacity.