What does professional launder mean

You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. What is professional laundering? Thread starter signal Start date Dec 26, I have a few shirts that say its recommended to professionally launder, then it also gives launder instructions. What is the difference? I mean is a dry cleaner really going to take better care of my shirt than I would? I some how doubt it, images of a big tub with shirts in it being stirred by a pole come to mind In any case, what would be different between following the tag instructions on a shirt and "professionally laundering".

In any case, what would be different between following the tag instructions on a shirt and "professionally laundering". Click to expand GBR Super Member. Laundering that you pay for, by someone who may or may not know what they are doing. Clothing manufacturers may put cleaning instruction labels in their clothes that suggest professional cleaning. This could be for two reasons. They don't want the consumer, who they think is ignorant, to wash the garment, ruin it and then ask for a refund AND they sometimes have a "deal" with professional cleaning groups to send them business!

A semi-related article from the Home Page:. Thanks this is what I figured. I will of course launder my own shirt Neal Shields New Member. In my experience it is usually an oxymoron. There is bad and not so bad. Where I live, most places are just drop off points for a large comercial laundry. They specialize in ironing in creases where they shouldn't be and ironing them out where they should be.

I love it when they iron french cuffs folded, but my main complaint is ironing in a wrinkle just at the collar point.

I can get "hand service" that is better but still careless, and often I have thought that I am going to get steel buttons machined just to see if they can brake them too.

The only good experience I have ever had was years ago when I lived near a movie studio. You could buy a shirt from Goodwill, use it as a cleaning rag for a year and the laundry out there would give it back looking better than new. Leaving that laundry behind was the only thing I regret about moving from California. Neal Shields said:. I take most of my high-quality shirts that I wear with suits, I take them to the dry cleaner I assume they use wet chemicals, but I've never asked and I get them done with medium starch.

For sportshirts and dress shirts that I wear without ties, I just hand wash them and iron them. I like having my nice shirts crisp and wrinkle free, which is why I prefer a dry cleaner. Though, every now and again they screw up the collar and iron in a wrinkle or two.

I wish I knew If I knew the name and thought they were still in business, I would be mailing them shirts. I lived near Burbank Studios and they were North of there off Barham somewhere. I suspect they catered to aspiring actors that wanted things just right. I hate to disapoint but that was in the early 70's. Rytina Rytina Cleaners in Sacramento is like that.

I've tried other places but Rytina always does an amazing job. They repair buttons and note any problems they see in addition to doing a great job on the finishing of the french cuffs, etc. They are a little more expensive but after paying for custom shirts it seems like good insurance.

Your email address will not be publicly visible. We will only use it to contact you to confirm your post. Post reply. The fundamental difference between dry cleaning and laundering is water; dry-cleaning does not use water while laundering does. Most dry cleaners use chemical solvents like perchloroethylene PERC to get rid of stains like pen ink while the process of laundering uses gentler soaps and detergents. Solvents in dry cleaning are normally recycled, so almost green right? Not really.

Most solvents used are extremely toxic and dry cleaners must hire a hazardous waste company to dispose of the solvent after they are finished with it. Laundering, on the other hand, uses no chemicals, but the water and soap cannot be reused from garment to garment and the process may not be able to remove those persistent stains. At Greener Cleaner, we offer environmentally friendly versions of both traditional dry-cleaning and laundering.