Summary: Dry cleaners clean sweaters by wet washing them. Learn how wet washing is used as an alternative to dry cleaning from a dry cleaning specialist in this free garment care video.
Gracie Sippel has dry cleaned and sold wedding gowns and tuxedos at Cottonwood Dry Cleaners for six years. Call her at 928-634-3451read more
"We decided to clean this one using a wet clean method. Which actually can be water and is water in this case. Its, but I have a very high end a very good washer. That I can select any one of many cycles. I then would put this according to color and I don't want to put this with white. But I like medium colors together. I would then put the medium colors in the washer. Put this in. Close the washer. Then I would decide how I wanted to wash it. Now I have spotted it and that should come out in the cycle. I want to do my detergent will be here and then say that I would thing that there extra dirty or somebody fell or something with there garments. I would then use an Oxi addition of an Oxi type of cleaner in it so we would release the dirt a little easier. That would go into here. I then would push this in and I would put the control on. Now I have several cycles on here being that, that is wool I have put it on wool. As you can see when I turn the control on it tells me how its going to clean. It is going to clean in cold water. Cold and cold because you never want to use hot water with wool or it will shrink. It will do a medium spin and this merely tells me its going to be the loudest way for me to run and take it out. Say I wished to do something with silk. That is twenty six minutes. That would be cold water again but it would have no spin. This is computer programed to how the item how the garment is cleaned and makes this a special way of washing. Not it would wash and it would go through a full wash cycle. After my buzzer rings I would then take it out. That will go through full, will have you know the water the salt the spinning a full rinse, If I wish to have an additional rinse I can add a rinse and it will go on a additional rinse. To make sure that everything is out of it and in some garments I may do that and then when its all done. Then I would take my garment out and lay it flat to dry."
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