Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner–No. 2: White garments white
February 25, 2010
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner
10. Knowledge of dry cleaning
9. Membership in a dry cleaning association
8. Clean stores
7. No odor on clothes
6. Properly removed stains
5. Skillful ironing
4. Intact buttons
3. Simple repairs made
2. White garments white
1. Ready to wear!
This one seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? White garments should come back from your dry cleaner sparkling white, and that’s what we offer here at Classic Cleaners!
We use special enzyme-based detergent that gets dirt out beautifully in cold water, which is better for garments and prevents shrinking. We also always use clean, well-filtered solvent in our dry cleaning process.
If you get garments back from your dry cleaner that are dingy and gray, it could be because they are using dirty dry cleaning solvent. They may be using too little detergent or substandard detergent.
Beautiful white clothes are the essence of our premium dry cleaning and laundry service. Try Classic Cleaners, and you’ll see the difference!
–Matt
The Classic Cleaners Blog Team
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner–No. 3: Simple repairs made
February 25, 2010
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner
10. Knowledge of dry cleaning
9. Membership in a dry cleaning association
8. Clean stores
7. No odor on clothes
6. Properly removed stains
5. Skillful ironing
4. Intact buttons
3. Simple repairs made
2. White garments white
1. Ready to wear!
It sometimes surprises our customers that making simple repairs is a feature of our premium dry cleaning and laundering. If something is wrong and we didn’t do it, then we shouldn’t have to fix it, right?
But that’s not how we think here at Classic Cleaners! Making simple repairs is part of offering you the best dry cleaning and laundering service possible. For example, suppose you give us a polo shirt to clean with a seam coming undone on the side. If we were to clean and steam the shirt without first neatly sewing up the seam, we could damage the garment further. Moreover, that’s an easy repair to make and doing it results in a happier customer–always our goal.
Obviously, if a garment is severely torn or otherwise damaged, we will alert you to this fact before we do anything further. Some repairs aren’t “simple” and may require a fee–or may be impossible. In most cases, though, we can fix it in a jiffy!
–Matt
The Classic Cleaners Blog Team
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner–No. 4: Intact buttons
February 25, 2010
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner
10. Knowledge of dry cleaning
9. Membership in a dry cleaning association
8. Clean stores
7. No odor on clothes
6. Properly removed stains
5. Skillful ironing
4. Intact buttons
3. Simple repairs made
2. White garments white
1. Ready to wear!
We are now beyond the six things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner that My Dry Cleaner suggests; the rest are all ours!
Shirt buttons can break at any time. Sometimes we receive shirts from customers with broken buttons, and sometimes buttons break during the cleaning process. Our process is very gentle, but sometimes buttons are on the verge of cracking and finally “give up the ghost” during washing or pressing.
It doesn’t matter where or why buttons break, however, since the Classic Cleaners Guarantee is always the same:
We guarantee that there will be no broken or missing buttons on your laundered shirts, or we will clean three additional shirts FREE!
How do we do this? We have a very large and varied supply of buttons to use to replace buttons of different colors and sizes. It’s just one more feature of our premium dry cleaning and laundering!
–Matt
The Classic Cleaners Blog Team
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner–No. 5: Skillful ironing
February 21, 2010
Top 10 things to look for when choosing a dry cleaner
10. Knowledge of dry cleaning
9. Membership in a dry cleaning association
8. Clean stores
7. No odor on clothes
6. Properly removed stains
5. Skillful ironing
4. Intact buttons
3. Simple repairs made
2. White garments white
1. Ready to wear!
Check the quality of ironing. The most often neglected areas are the crotches of pants and the underarms of blouses or jackets.
If anything, My Dry Cleaner is understating the importance of ironing. In fact, ironing is more of an art than a process. Naturally, we have made it as systematic as possible and have separate stations for every part of the garment. To get good ironing, however, you need really skillful people.
Another place to look at is the pockets of pants: you don’t want a visible pocket outline. The side seams of pants are another area that requires precision work, and crisp collars are a must.
At Classic Cleaners, we believe we offer the best clothes ironing in Indy. If you haven’t tried us yet, please do–we think you’ll be greatly satisfied with our ironing and every aspect of our work!
–Matt
The Classic Cleaners Blog Team
