Dry Cleaning: Washing a Dress Shirt

Video Transcript

"What I am doing here is I am just sorting the colors. We are going to do a medium starch load so I have the medium starch bin and we are doing the darks with the darks and lights and mediums together because I don't have a lot of shirts to do. We have a 60 pound machine and you can do up to 60 pounds of shirts. What we are going to be doing here is we are going to be using the washing machine and we use the washing machine for shirts. The washing machine still does the same mechanical action as the dry cleaner except we are using water and not a solvent. That is the key factor to doing shirts because we have to wash our starch into the shirts which I will explain later. What we try to do is just keep the colors that look like they would not bleed together and the ones that would bleed or the darker ones together because if something does bleed it won't show up on the darker colors. The reason why people have us do their shirts is because we can wash starch into them. We use chemicals which I will show you a little bit later. It will remove the sweat stains from your collar, grease stains like say you dropped some meat on there from eating dinner, or stuff like that, blood and stuff like that. A lot of women these days work and they don't have time to press their husband's shirts any more so we do the service of pressing the shirts for them. So we are down the end of our bucket here and what we are going to do is grab all the shirts I just did. We are going to throw them in the machine. Get everything nice and in there. You don't want to catch anything on the door. So what we are doing here is I have a list of all the different cycles you can do like #1 is a hot wash, #2 is a warm wash, and we have a cold wash, a rinse and sour only. Sour is one of the chemicals we use to remove stains. We have a light starch, a heavy starch, we have a delicate warm cycle which just rocks the machine back and forth very gentle on blouses and stuff. We have a rinse and spin, a delicate cold and stuff like that. What we are going to do here is this is a medium starch load and we are going to do a #6 which is our code on here. Push start and it says do you want to execute this and push yes. This box over here was provided by Propene this is the company that we go to for our chemicals and what we have it on is #6 which is the starch load and this will automatically inject all the chemicals needed to clean these shirts including the starch. All these chemicals are injected through these pumping systems that are ran by the computer on the washing machine. We have soap, we have a laundry detergent. We have an oxidizer which makes your whites really white. There are some other chemicals including starch to clean your shirts. This washing machine here is an older machine that we had so we put it in the store in case we got extremely busy and we have a back up washing machine if our other washing machine broke down or something like that. We also have this little one here to keep us going. This washing machine is also injected with our chemicals by the same company. It is all wired in. "