Our story

Based in Bellingham, Washington, Colleen founded Brio Laundry, Brio Cleaners & Commercial Laundry in 2012.  She met with success and found she loved the industry.  Colleen readily shares her laundry know how at events, conferences and webinars. She retired from store ownership in 2022.
Her son, Travis, now owns all the operations.  While Colleen focuses on teaching, testing products and laundry procedures for the University and Library -  she works with Travis to make sure it all works in the real life setting of a laundromat. 
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Our purpose

Our purpose is to make owning, operating and managing laundry operations much easier and less time consuming. 
Have a question about our library, pricing, or want to bundle programs? Feel free to contact us.

About us

We are excited to help laundry businesses expand and grow!
Short lessons, longer Master Classes to Instructional Videos;
we have created and compiled best practices in the business of laundry.

We started building Version 1 of our University and Library  in 2021. We wanted a sure fire way to hire, train and trust our employees to do laundry without direct supervision.  We put what we were doing, into video lessons. These training videos helped us save countless hours of teaching laundry to every new employee.
In 2022 we created Version 2 so that other businesses could enroll their employees. In just a couple hours, the new hires' laundering skill is at par with existing staff. 
Today, 2025 we are working on Version 3! We created a companion site, The Laundry Library, with 24/7 access. So you can continue to learn and expand your laundry service offerings - with confidence!

Meet Colleen

#really knows how to do laundry | #is awesome | #has figured out laundry | #saved my life | #is the best teacher

Owner, Teacher, Lead Launderer
Colleen loves laundry! She taught high school and university science for nearly 25 years, retired and opened a laundromat. Then sold the laundry operations and started Laundry University and Library.
She loves to collaborate, teach and talk laundry.
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