The business idea for consideration is a weekend ironing service.
Look for a community where there is an erratic supply of power from the national grid,populated by elites and low level income class who need to iron their clothes but may not be able to afford the services of dry cleaners or generating sets that can power pressing irons. Set up an ironing service as follows:
Rent a big store in the community that can accomodate a minimum of 10 pressing tables.
Allocate a pressing iron per table.install an aircon or ceiling fans in the centre.
Install a suitable diesel generating set that can power the 10 pressing irons simultaneously along with the aircon or ceiling fans
Do aggressive marketing in the community and environs.
Customers can come to the ironing centre to iron their clothes by themselves using the ironing facilities and paying N500.00 per hour
The 10 irons will be controlled from a central location in the store where each can be switched on or off as the case may be.
Set the working hours for Saturdays 12 noon to 7pm and Sundays 2pm to 7pm.
Income per hour if all the irons are engaged simultaneously is N5000.00 per hour on Saturdays i.e N35,000.00 and N25,000.00 on Sundays.
It makes more economic sense where a client washes his clothes at home and irons them in the ironing centre.Ironing 15 clothes within the hour for N500.00 is cheaper than paying a drycleaner to iron them for N3000.00.
The diesel generator(10kva) consumes about one litre to one&half litre per hour @N160.00 per litre,therefore the fuel bill is about N2500 per weekend.
No unnecessary staff overheads as the clients do the ironing themselves.Two staffers(a clerk and the manager)are OK to run the ironing centre.

Will work well in areas where transformers have blown or completely absent. if not the business patronage will be seriously erratic. Why don't u just even make it a full laundry service?

Good business idea,but then it has to be in an area whr thr is barely electicity supply. Meanwhil e u dont expect ppl to go thru d stress of ironing their clothes themselve,why not mk it more of laundry service as d previous poster said so u can guarantee urself total control of income.