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Originally Posted by urban1
Seems like Im getting ripped off. Tower Cleaners has a location close to my office so Ill check out what they charge. Any other recomendations in the downtown area?
For those with questions about shirt laundry... heres a couple of tips/facts....
-getting your shirts laundered is harsher on them if you do it yourself.... the points on the collars are always the first to go even on quality shirts.. theyll get worn down, turn white, and start to fray. Buttons also get torn off or crack and little pieces break off. this happens at home but takes a lot longer for the detioration.
-starch kills the fabric on your shirts. with new shirts, you should use only light starch. a quality cotton shirt when new can be pressed with no starch and will still be crisp. as the fabric gets old and detiorates, then you can increase the starch to achieve the same crispness. if you use starch on new shirts, the fabric will break down a lot quicker.
-theres only a small number of shirt laundry companies in calgary. so regardless of what drycleaner you take it to, it will end up in the same place. its all outsourced. so thats what burns even worse when im paying almost a $1 more per shirt. ask your cleaner where they send their shirts.
-and yes, even though you take it to the dry cleaner, the shirt is laundered - ie. washed in hot water, then put in a dryer, then pressed.
-and if you do have stains on the shirt, like the greasy collar mentioned above, or red wine, or whatever, point it out to the person when you drop it off and they will pre-treat it.
that is all for now.
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Well perhaps the place I take our shirts to is one of the sources then because I have visually seen them take the wet shirts, put them through the heat machine, do the collars, sleeves, etc. They do have a pick up and delivery service so perhaps they are picking up from other cleaners? I will ask when I pick up the last shirts I dropped off.
I have never found tips of collars on shirts to be a problem with laundering at a dry cleaner. Perhaps it depends on the quality of the shirt? I have always had the opposite experience. Mind you, I do not ask for starch either, so perhaps as you were saying, it is the starch that breaks down the fabrics of the shirts.
Anyhow, it has been my experience that with good quality shirts, they stay nice and crisp and new looking far longer with the drycleaner than they would if I laundered them at home.