Summary: Dry cleaners use larger capacity dryers for dress shirts than regular homes use. Get tips on how dry cleaners use bigger dryers to clean your shirt from a dry cleaning specialist in this free garment care video.
Matt Ogden runs Ogdens Dry Cleaners. This a 2nd generation family owned business in Cottonwood Az. They specialize in all types of cleaning and Pressing. Contact them at 928-639-0044read more
"Alright well next to our washing machine we have our dryer and that way you don't have a lot of movement between the washer and dryer. It saves me time on my feet, a lot of soreness and stuff like that. The reason why dry cleaners have such large capacity dryers is because your whole washer can't do like feather mattresses or down comforters, bigger comforters that say machine wash so people are bringing them to us and we can put them in our front loader washing machine that still can have the mechanical action and agitate the soap and the water through the material. We use these because they have a faster drying time and gives more expansion of the comforter inside the drum and it dries throughout the dryer and it does not compact it altogether so like say when you are home washing and you pull it out and it is dry on the outside and it is wet on the inside so that is why we use a larger capacity dryer. This dryer here is a newer company that we just picked up. It is the same as our washing machine and it has worked excellent. It has a giant lint filter here on the bottom which we clean out once a week. It has three different drying settings rather four different drying settings. We have a no heat, permanent press, low heat and a high heat. This dryer also has a dry timer on it and it also has a cool down timer on it."
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