A sometimes-overlooked fact of life in the laundry business is that the efficiency of your boiler system affects natural gas consumption as measured in “therms per hundred weight.”    
 
Several attendees at the recent TRSA Tech/Plant Summit plant tours observed a visible boiler room steam leak during the plant tours. The leak, based on the information noted on pg. 55 is costing this launderer about $3,000 annually. Do the math and this plant would have to process about 45,500 lbs. of laundry at a 10% net profit just to pay for the fuel consumed by this ...