2006-09-20 21:59:25 · 10 answers · asked by marc 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Drycleaning does NOT use petrol or diesel!! For a goodness sake, people if you dont know, then dont write up wild guesses!! so much misinformation starts this way.
Drycleaning is the cleaning of clothes in a waterless solvent, usually perchlorethylene, or white spirits. There are some new alternatives such as greenearth, Co2, rynex, puredry, mostly still experimental, supposed to be less toxic but they dont clean as well. All cleaning and drying is done in comepletely sealed machines, which filters the solvent during the cleaning cycle and purifies the solvent. All solvent is dried from the garment and reclaimed by the machine. Solvent doesnt swell fibres like water does, thus is able to clean delicates such as silks and wools and keeps them in pristine condition.
2006-09-24 00:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by trubluoz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dry cleaning is when garments are cleaned using solvents like perklone, hydrocarbon or Green Earth. These names will mean little to most people but are not connected to water in any way. The garments do not get 'wet' as such hence dry-cleaning. They are cleaned in machines similar in design to washing machines but much larger and more complex using other chemicals for soap and stain removal. The best and only environmentally safe solvent is Green Earth by Johnson Cleaners, it has no smell and cleans garment very gently. There is much more to tell but this will answer your question.
2006-09-24 06:34:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "DRY" part is the false part... Chemicals are used to make water even wetter if that makes any sense. These chemicals than make it possible for the water to not harm the clothing / fabric.
The only dry cleaning I have done is leathers and furs.... all others I use "woolight" and the machine...have only shrunk 1 thing in over 20 years of doing this.
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2006-09-21 10:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by Kitty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that dry cleaning isn't really dry. The use chemicals.
2006-09-21 07:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by jan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The clothes are cleaned using petroleum solvents such as petrol and diesel as they are good solvents ( they dissolve dirt, grease easily) and are removed from the clothes without damaging them.
2006-09-21 05:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anshul Mittal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I drop it off on Monday and pick it up on Wednesday.
2006-09-21 17:56:54 · answer #6 · answered by nautical68 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Solvents and steam.
2006-09-21 05:13:10 · answer #7 · answered by Ricky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chemicals and hot air
2006-09-21 05:06:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all done by magic pixies.
2006-09-21 05:01:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea
2006-09-21 05:10:10 · answer #10 · answered by sammy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋