Welcome to Cleaner Web Spotlight where you can find contact information about your local dry cleaner and reviews from other customers. We strive to provide the best information we can about dry cleaners in your area. You name the city, and if we don’t have information about their dry cleaners, we’ll dig around and post some on here.
How the Cleaner Web Spotlight Works
It’s simple!
Find local dry cleaners and use their business.
Rate their service using the stars and write a review if you want.
The best review in the Comments gets featured in the dry cleaner’s profile!
(But wait, how does #3 help me? Why should I care? Well, if you have a blog, a business website, or want to people to see all your awesome posts on your Facebook page, it’s all eyes on you!)
What items can I take to a dry cleaner?
Most of you can picture the typical dry cleaner that has multitudes of suits and dresses hanging in plastic sleeves on a rotating turnstile. We’ve all seen the good cop chasing the bad criminal through a dry cleaner’s store, tossing some grandmother’s old moth-ball smelling suit to throw the pursuers off his trail. There’s even a dry cleaner scene in The Toxic Avenger from 1984! (Viewer discretion advised.)
Anyway, that’s beside the point! Your original question was, what items can I take to a dry cleaner. Aside from the standard items of suits and dresses and anything else in your closet that says “dry clean only,” you can do items such as comforters, leather, upholstery, and just about anything made out of wool, velvet or silk. Just ask your local dry cleaner if she can handle the item you’d like cleaned. Never hurts to make sure!
What is dry cleaning?
According to Wikipedia, and we’re sure you already know this, dry cleaning is any cleaning process that uses a chemical solvent instead of water. A dry cleaner in the industry refer to it as perc, but the public typically refers to it as dry cleaning fluid. Believe it or not, the history of dry cleaning begins with the ancient Romans using ammonia, which was derived from urine, and fuller’s earth, a claylike material, to launder their togas. (Evidently the urine was obtained from farm animals and designated pots at public restrooms. Aren’t you glad technology has advanced a little further since then?)
Since we’re just here to simplify the process for you, dry cleaners today use machines that are similar to washing machines and a clothes dryer. The garments are placed inside the “drum” of the machine, the solvent is added, the dry cleaning process is cycled through, and the the dry cleaner extracts the solvent for reuse. Wikipedia tells us that 99.9% of the solvent used can be recovered, which is certainly an excellent benefit to dry cleaner services. Following this, a drying cycle and deodorizing cycle occurs, and then the garments are ready for pressing and finalization process.
If you happen to find a local dry cleaner in your area that’s doing an excellent job, let us know, or if you happen to find one that’s still using dry cleaning techniques from ancient Rome and you’re not to happy about it, we’d like to hear about that too!