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Summary: Dry cleaners use air to dry sweaters and prevent shrinkage. Get tips on drying sweaters 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
"After the perk extraction it goes in a drying cycle. Fluffing it up, probably putting air through it and the garments will not shrink per dry cleaning system. At that point they are relatively done when the machine or the computer goes off. Then I have the ability to take it out and then I would take the garment out. This is sealed very strong because of perk being so highly flammable. Your dry cleaning machines you have strict you certainly want to, I don't want to inhale all the perk that I use day in and day out so neither would anyone else. So these machines are insulated and formed so that you don't lose any of the scent and the materials in it. I would take the garment out. I could then immediately hang it up and immediately take it to the presses, hang it for pressing. Now on a perk say that here is a spot on a article that has perk, we could re-dry clean it and re-spot it, however I sometimes I can take if there is a spot and we think it can come out with steam we will take this garment hang it and use a hand steamer which I have here to work on the spot. Again you don't want to use soap or all sorts of things on it, steam should take it out. I sometimes use my fingernail but we should use that blunt object that I used for spotting. It does not change the surface of the fabric usually and we don't want to do that. So the spot is out, I can then take this to the process for either pressing of however we are going to finish this maybe by a steam presser."
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