Is it a laundromat if it’s not autoMATic? Cool either way.
Yeah, I may have stretched the definition, but it was for comic effect. So it’s okay, right?
Plus, if you were kneeling down, doing your laundry, a mat would be quite handy 👍
How does it work?
EDIT: Guess I need to explain myself-- my working thought is that washing spaces are interspersed with clay-like crouching spaces, or maybe those play some other role. If so, what is it? Besides that, how do they drain the basins, and where does the water come from? Is it piped in? What kinds of cleaning agents would they use?
They’ve diverted some of the river water to run through a pipe along the top. It branches off with a small pipe to each section. It can be blocked off so you put the clothes in the slanted section, scrub and rinse. Each section has a drain also.
Thank you.
Btw, it just hit me that the origin of the word “laundromat” is a portmanteau of “laundry” and “automatic,” used to describe a place with multiple automated washing machines. However, I’m not sure exactly what this facility would better be called in either English or Castellano.
Call it a “laundry”
It would be Spanish. Lavanderia, perhaps.
You clean your clothes.
“You plunge and scrub, plunge and scrub, and if it’s still dirty do it again!”
It’s set up to wash laundry by hand.
Edit: since you’re confused as to how that works - water is collected either from rain or brought to this location, maybe there’s running water sometimes, clothes are soaked and scrubbed in the basin and then spread out on the flat stone to dry.
Here’s a link to a more thorough explanation:
You do.
