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Air-Powered Laundry Jet
You’ll wonder why no one came up with this idea a long time ago. The Laundry Jet sucks in dirty clothes and delivers them to your laundry room at 30 mph. An optional return system will take clean clothes from the laundry back to your bedroom.
Instead of gravity, the patented Laundry Jet uses a high flow of air to suction laundry up, down or sideways to deposit in the laundry room. No more laundry baskets to carry up and down stairs. Instead, 6-in. ports that open manually or by the wave of a hand in front of a sensor turn the system on, pulling laundry through.
Drew Henry, a self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, made the first system using leaf blowers to help his pregnant wife who was also raising two young sons. Later when they moved to a bigger house, Henry improved on the system when the third of his five sons encouraged him.
In new construction, the trunk line of lightweight 6-in. PVC pipe can be installed the same way HVAC lines are installed in transition or attic spaces. Laundry Jet can also be retrofitted into existing buildings by DIYers with the help of an online video or by installers throughout the U.S.
The Swift version of Laundry Jet accommodates up to four ports, and the Plus version works with up to eight ports, with runs as long as 200 ft. The Return Unit is an option to take the clean clothes back to one location and requires an extra line.
Thanks to social media, Laundry Jet has become popular over the last three years.
Customers include everyone from homeowners and people with mobility issues, to hotels and chain stores to second-hand clothing operations.
“There was a study by the laundry industry that discovered that doing laundry requires the largest amount of time in managing a home, and this reduces that work,” Henry notes.
Each system is customized according to the size of the home, starting at about $2,500 for the basic Swift system with one port.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Laundry Jet, 2001 Challenger Ave., Suite A, Oroville, Calif. 95965 (ph 800-867-4580; Sales1@laundryjet.com; www.laundryjet.com).


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