The holiday season is creeping up on us and that often means fluffing pillows and straightening curtains for guests. If you’ve started the fluffing and the straightening, you might have noticed that your home could use a little extra polish. In light of Classic Cleaners’ limited time offer on household cleaning (take 20% off all of your household cleaning needs Sept. 25-Oct. 15), here are some tips for prepping your home for holiday guests.

CLEAR VIEWS

A thorough window washing — inside and out — can make a huge difference in how the inside and outside of your home looks. A cloudy window can make even the cleanest things in your home look a little dingy. Your draperies can also improve the view. To remove signs of dust, stains and pressing, bring your linens to Classic Cleaners. From lined to swag, casual to formal, Classic Cleaners makes your drapes look as good as your wardrobe.

HANDSOME TABLES

If you are hosting guests, chances are you are cooking. Be sure the table on which you are serving is as pleasing to the eye as your food is. If your table is treated with a polyurethane finish, consider sanding down worn areas and giving it a fresh coat of poly. It will help repel stains and give it a great shine. Treat your table linens to the spa treatment with a visit to Classic Cleaners. Crisply pressed tablecloths and spotless napkins can go a long way in setting the holiday table.

SUMPTUOUS BEDS

One key to making up a welcoming bed is regular cleaning. Before tossing anything into your washer or dryer, check the label. This is not an area in which you want to be a rule breaker. Be sure you aren’t crowding your washable bed linens in the washer. You want them to have plenty of room to move around when they’re being agitated. After washing, it’s best to lay out blankets and comforters flat in a dry place or line dry them. If you don’t have a large washer and place to dry your linens effectively, drop all of your bed linens by Classic Cleaners. We can handle it.

SPA-WORTHY PILLOWS

When your guest’s head hits the pillow, be sure it’s a fluffy one. To add a little life back to your pillows, give them to the “pillow-rejuvenation spa” treatment at Classic Cleaners. Once the down and feather filling has been thoroughly cleaned, we add new filling to return the pillow to its original volume. The filling is then placed in brand new, dust-free ticking.

Spring is here and now is the time to rid your home of winter’s stuffiness with a dose of spring cleaning and Classic Cleaners. We professionally clean household items with the same meticulous care that we give to your wardrobe. Here are a few ways we can help freshen up your home.

• Curtains go from dusty to dustless. You may have the cleanest home on the block, but even in your tidy home, the draperies have probably collected a significant amount of dust. From lined to swag, casual to formal, Classic Cleaners makes your drapes look as good as your wardrobe.
• Don’t let spills ruin your party (or your linens). Entertaining doesn’t have to be refreshment-free to prevent ruining your favorite tablecloth, placemats and napkins. Feel safe planning a fun, food-filled party, knowing that Classic Cleaners guarantees the removal of 100% of fresh stains on your table linens.
• Give bedding a spring break. When you come out of hibernation, bring your sheets, pillowcases, comforters and duvets to Classic Cleaners. To ensure that every night feels like a vacation, we recommend having items like sheets and pillowcases cleaned weekly.
• Give your pillows the spa treatment. Flat, lifeless pillows do little for a good night’s sleep. To add a little life back to your pillows, give them to the “pillow-rejuvenation spa” treatment. Once the down and feather filling has been thoroughly cleaned, we add new filling to return the pillow to its original volume. The filling is then placed in brand new, dust-free ticking.

To give spring a warm welcome, Classic Cleaners is offering 20% from now until May 7. Getting your household items clean for spring is easy! Just call us for pickup or stop by a neighborhood store.

Different dry cleaners handle clothes differently. But which of those differences – differences in processes, differences in equipment, and differences in expertise –  are going to matter most when it comes to helping your family’s garments lasting their longest and looking their best?

Take this simple ten-question test to see just how much you know about dry cleaning….

1.  Table linens should always be laundered in water that is 110º.

 ___True                           ___False

2. The certification for environmentally responsible dry cleaning practices is
 called Green Dry Cleaner.

  ___True                           ___False
                  
3.   To preserve wedding gowns, you should store them in special boxes treated with  acid.
 

___True                           ___False
                 
4. If a garment has studs or beaded buttons, the buttons should be detached prior to dry cleaning and reattached.

___True                           ___False

 
5.  Home dry cleaning never rinses out the spotting solution.

 ___True                           ___False

 6. If you get bubble gum on a garment, scrape the gum off the best you can before
 bringing the garment to the dry cleaners.

 ___True                           ___False

7. When drapes have smoke damage, homeowners trying to clean them on their own will only smear soot into the fabric.
 
 ___True                           ___False

8. Dry cleaned clothes should be kept in their plastic bags until you’re ready to put them on.

___True                           ___False

9. Zippers should be left open when clothes are hanging in the closet, in order to allow fabric to “breathe”.

 ___True                           ___False

10.  If a garment label reads “fire retardant“, the dry cleaners must use special non liquid cleaning agents on that garment.

___True                           ___False

How did you do on the test? At Classic Cleaners,” the modern craft of clean” combines the latest in equipment and technology with decades of experience in caring for clothes. Nothing less than a ten out of ten will do for our customers!

 
Answer key: (Click on the link for each question to find the full explanation.)
True: 4, 5, 7, 10
False: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9

by Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team

Mel Gibson may have learned some lessons about what women want, but at Classic Cleaners, we’ve had twenty five years to learn exactly what dry cleaning and laundry customers want.

Three things, really: My clothes back. On time.  Ready to wear.

How do we know about the three wishes? We can read them in your eyes when you’re dropping off the precious wardrobe pieces you’ve so carefully selected for fit, comfort, and to make your very own statement of style. We can hear, loud and clear, each customer’s unspoken plea: “Please take good care of these clothes for me!”

At Classic Cleaners we have an expression for the way we respond to that plea: We call it “the modern craft of clean”. The unspoken, yet very loud message behind those five words of the new Classic Cleaners motto is simply this:

1.            Every garment gets back to its owner.
2.            On time.
3.            Ready to wear. 

We take our standard one important step further:

• As close to new as possible.

The Classic Cleaners motto means excellence. And excellence in dry cleaning means combining the latest technology with the highest levels of professional experience and skill.

Our heat seal label inventory tracking system guarantees we know exactly – every time – which garments belong to which customer.  With zero minutes wasted on a hunt to match “orphan garments” with paper sales tickets, our computerized order and bagging system has each order ready for delivery to the customer precisely on schedule.

The Classic Cleaners’  large, professional-grade linen press and the Unipress shirt machine yield results that cannot be replicated at most competitors’ operations.

The “modern craft of clean” translates into professional skills in stain removal, restoration, and pressing. No dry cleaning customer should ever receive a garment with a missing button, a loose thread or belt loop.

We love to chat with our customers and learn more about their lives.  But as far as what you want when you entrust your clothes to us – you don’t need to say.  After 25 years – we know!

 
By Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team