How much to do pay laundered shirts?

[urban1]

For those who get their shirts laundered:

My drycleaner seems to have been increasing their prices by a nickel or dime almost monthly over the past couple of years.

Most recently theyre charging $3.20 per shirt plus 6% GST plus $0.16 enviro fee for a total of $3.55 per shirt.

How does this compare to what youre paying? Wheres your drycleaner located?

[alltherage]

Originally Posted by urban1

For those who get their shirts laundered:

My drycleaner seems to have been increasing their prices by a nickel or dime almost monthly over the past couple of years.

Most recently theyre charging $3.20 per shirt plus 6% GST plus $0.16 enviro fee for a total of $3.55 per shirt.

How does this compare to what youre paying? Wheres your drycleaner located?

Sorry, I don't get my stuff drycleaned... but I had to comment: Your thread title makes my brain hurt.

[The Goon]

I pay a total of $2.50 a shirt downtown. I always think it must be cheaper somewhere.

[Staypuft]

Originally Posted by alltherage

Sorry, I don't get my stuff drycleaned... but I had to comment: Your thread title makes my brain hurt.

Have you found your "suttle pi-striped pants" yet?

[iggypop]

Thats a word!? Huh news to me!

[SportsJunky]

Nice work on the thread title.

I pay 2.49/shirt in Bridlewood.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

It really depends on experience and qualifications. What would you pay a laundered shirt?

[redforever]

$1.75 a shirt plus GST at Victorian Fine Drycleaners in Oakridge, little strip mall west end of Southland Dr SW

Keep in mind not all shirts can be laundered, some have to be drycleaned because of the fabric and that costs more.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Bar none, the best I've found at laundering shirts was the Martinizing in Crowfoot. White shirts came back from there brilliant white, better than new. That was 4 years ago though.

$2.00 + seems to be the norm in the areas around downtown.

[Clarkey]

What is the process for this? You wear the shirt a couple times then dump it in a bag with your other shirts every couple weeks, pick it up and repeat? Do you wear a shirt more than once? Do they iron it too for the 2 bucks? I'm ignorant on this topic, I go to work with partially wrinkled shirts quite often and might be willing to pay for this service.

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by Clarkey

What is the process for this? You wear the shirt a couple times then dump it in a bag with your other shirts every couple weeks, pick it up and repeat? Do you wear a shirt more than once? Do they iron it too for the 2 bucks? I'm ignorant on this topic, I go to work with partially wrinkled shirts quite often and might be willing to pay for this service.

Yeah, when I first started working at an office I was ignorant of this too. I was washing and ironing my shirts.

Then I discovered Laundering doesn't mean dry cleaining. They clean your shirts, and starch them, so their pretty much "pressed/ironed" it's wonderful.
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[redforever]

Originally Posted by Clarkey

What is the process for this? You wear the shirt a couple times then dump it in a bag with your other shirts every couple weeks, pick it up and repeat? Do you wear a shirt more than once? Do they iron it too for the 2 bucks? I'm ignorant on this topic, I go to work with partially wrinkled shirts quite often and might be willing to pay for this service.

It will depend on what kind of neck you have. Greasy neck, more laundering, simple as that. And if you do have a greasy neck, point that out to the drycleaner as you deliver the shirt. They will then pretreat the neck before they launder it.

And yes, of course they iron the shirt for that price, and you will have your collars and sleeves pressed by machines so nice and crisp. Also by taking them to dry cleaner, it seems like the sizing that is initially put on the shirts seems to last longer. You dont get that eventual pillball look or fuzzy look to your shirts.

And depending on how much you launder or dry clean, some businesses have pick up and delivery service too.

Starch is up to you. If crisp collars bother you or you dont want that look, just tell them.

[GrrlGoalie33]

I pay $2.50 a shirt for "same day" service. If i leave it with them for three days I get 30% off.

I believe the name of the place is Dolphin Dry Cleaners over in the Country Hills area.

[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.

[redforever]

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.

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.