The short answer
An ironing service in Marbella typically charges per piece: expect €1.50–€2.50 for a cotton shirt, €2–€3 for trousers and €3–€6 for a dress, on top of washing. At WashMe, ironing is an add-on to wash and fold. You book a collection, flag the items you want pressed, and we wash the load at €6.99/kg (dropping to €6.49/kg above 20 kg), iron the flagged pieces and deliver everything back within 24–48 hours. Pickup and delivery are free on orders from €49.50. Outsourcing pays off once a household irons more than about ten garments a week — roughly two hours at the board — or for anything that needs a sharp finish: dress shirts, linen, tablecloths, duvet covers. For knits, jersey dresses and light creasing, a €40 home steamer does the job, and we explain exactly where that line sits below.
How ironing works as a WashMe add-on
Ironing at WashMe rides on top of the standard wash and fold service. The flow looks like this:
- Book a collection. Standard pickup runs in the evening window, 19:00–21:00, Monday to Saturday. Book online or message +34 663 171 568 on WhatsApp, answered Monday to Saturday from 07:30 to 19:00.
- Flag the items you want pressed. Add a note at booking — “8 shirts and the white tablecloth, please iron” is enough. Forgot? Send a WhatsApp before the driver arrives. Unflagged items come back washed and hand-folded, not pressed.
- Washing comes first. Every order runs in its own machine at our own facility, never mixed with anyone else’s laundry. Bed and table linens wash at 60°C, everything else at 40°C, with eco-certified detergent.
- Pressing comes second. Flagged garments are ironed once dry. Shirts and dresses come back on hangers where possible; flatwork such as sheets and tablecloths comes back pressed and folded.
- Delivery in 24–48 hours. That is the standard turnaround. Same-day is possible if the collection is booked before 9:00, with delivery before 15:00, for +€29.90. Express under 24 hours is +€29.90, and Priority under 12 hours (next morning) is +€49.90.
Delivery is free on orders from €49.50, and there is no minimum weight. A mixed order — say 7 kg of family washing plus ten flagged shirts — clears that threshold comfortably.
Per-piece or per-kg: how the pricing logic works
Washing is priced per kilo because machine time scales with weight. WashMe’s residential rates run €6.99/kg for 1–10 kg, €6.79/kg for 11–20 kg and €6.49/kg for 21–30 kg — the full breakdown is on the per-kg laundry page.
Ironing is different. It is labour, and labour scales with the garment, not the weight. A fitted cotton shirt takes a trained presser four to five minutes and an amateur ten. A heavy pair of jeans weighs four times as much and needs almost no ironing at all. Charging ironing by the kilo would overcharge denim and undercharge silk, which is why every credible service in Spain prices pressing per piece. Typical per-piece rates around Marbella in 2026:
| Item | Typical Marbella per-piece price | Time to iron it yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Cotton shirt | €1.50–€2.50 | 8–12 min |
| Blouse (silk or viscose) | €2–€3.50 | 10–15 min |
| Trousers or chinos | €2–€3 | 6–10 min |
| Cotton dress | €3–€5 | 12–18 min |
| Linen dress | €4–€6 | 15–20 min |
| Double flat sheet or duvet cover | €2.50–€4 | 10–15 min |
| Large tablecloth | €4–€7 | 15–25 min |
Ranges compiled from published Marbella and Costa del Sol price lists, checked June 2026. WashMe confirms the exact per-piece add-on for your list at booking over WhatsApp, so the invoice holds no surprises.
Shirts, dresses and linens: what is worth sending
Shirts
The single best candidate for outsourcing. A shirt has a collar, cuffs, a placket, a yoke and two sleeves, each needing heat and pressure in a specific order. Done well, it holds its shape for the full day; done quickly, it looks tired by ten o’clock. If you wear pressed shirts to work, eight to ten a week is the usual point where people stop ironing at home — that is 60 to 90 minutes of board time gone, every week, on shirts alone.
Dresses
Fabric decides. Linen and cotton poplin crease hard and respond brilliantly to a proper press. Viscose and silk need a cooler iron and a lighter hand — exactly the garments people scorch at home. Jersey and knit dresses rarely need an iron at all: hang them after a quick steam and they recover on their own.
Bed and table linens
Flatwork is where home ironing genuinely breaks down. A double duvet cover does not fit on a domestic board; you end up pressing one panel at a time while the rest re-creases on the floor. A large tablecloth is worse. These pieces take 15–25 minutes each at home and a fraction of that on commercial equipment, which is why they are the most cost-effective items to flag. One caution: check the care label before flagging delicate pieces. The iron symbols are standardised internationally by GINETEX — one dot means a maximum of 110°C, two dots 150°C, three dots 200°C, and a crossed-out iron means the item should not be ironed at all.
What hotels do: pressed linen is the standard
No decent hotel returns a wrinkled sheet to a bed. Hotel laundries run flatwork through roller ironers — wide heated cylinders that dry and press a sheet in a single pass at high temperature. The result is the smooth, dense, slightly crisp finish you notice the second you get into a hotel bed. In hospitality, pressed linen is not a luxury extra; it is the baseline.
For hotels, Airbnb operators and restaurants, WashMe runs wholesale rates of €3.75–€5.75/kg depending on monthly volume, with flatwork finishing built into the workflow. Households can borrow the same standard on a smaller scale: flag your bed linen for ironing with a normal wash and fold order and it comes back with that hotel finish. Plenty of customers do this only for the guest room, or only in summer when visitors arrive — it is an add-on, not a subscription.
The time maths for a household
Take a realistic weekly basket for two working adults: eight shirts, two blouses, two pairs of trousers and one set of double bed linen.
- Eight shirts at 8–12 minutes each: 64–96 minutes
- Two blouses at 10–15 minutes: 20–30 minutes
- Two pairs of trousers at 6–10 minutes: 12–20 minutes
- One duvet cover, one flat sheet, two pillowcases: 25–35 minutes
That is two to three hours a week, or roughly 120 hours a year — three full working weeks standing at a board. Outsourcing the entire basket at typical per-piece rates costs about €25–€35 a week. Many households split the difference instead: send the shirts and the flatwork, which carry around 70% of the time for roughly €17–€26, and steam the easy items at home. Either way, run the numbers against your own hourly value rather than against zero — home ironing is never free, it is just invoiced in evenings.
For the wider price picture — wash and fold per kilo, dry cleaning per garment, urgent supplements — see the full Marbella laundry cost benchmarks for 2026.
When a home steamer is enough
A steamer relaxes fibres with hot vapour but applies no pressure. That single fact decides everything.
A steamer handles these well:
- Knitwear, jersey and t-shirts — pressure would flatten the texture anyway
- Casual dresses in flowing fabrics that only need wrinkles relaxed
- Suit jackets between wears — a refresh, not a press
- Curtains, steamed while hanging in place
A steamer cannot produce:
- Crisp collars, cuffs and plackets on a dress shirt
- Trouser creases and skirt pleats — a sharp edge needs heat plus pressure
- The flat, dense finish on cotton or linen sheets and tablecloths
The decision rule is simple. If the garment looks right with soft, relaxed fabric, steam it at home and save the money. If it looks right with a sharp edge or a flat plane, it needs an iron — yours or ours.
Booking, coverage and the practical details
WashMe collects and delivers across 27 neighbourhoods from San Pedro de Alcántara to Torremolinos, covering Marbella, Puerto Banús, Nueva Andalucía, Mijas and Fuengirola among others. We do not currently cover Estepona or Sotogrande. Standard turnaround is 24–48 hours; if you add dry cleaning to an order, that part always takes 48 hours — it runs on our own in-house line, with only fur, suede and leather sent to a certified external specialist.
- WhatsApp: +34 663 171 568, answered Monday to Saturday, 07:30–19:00
- Email: info@washme.es
- Walk-in counter: Av. del Golf 25, Mijas (Riviera del Sol), Monday to Saturday, 10:00–16:00
- Free pickup and delivery on orders from €49.50, with no minimum weight
Every order is tracked from collection to delivery; our loss rate sits under 0.1% and is covered by the damage and loss policy. For the full service overview — wash and fold, ironing, dry cleaning and the turnaround options — start at the laundry service in Marbella page, or send your ironing list straight to WhatsApp and we will quote it in the same conversation.