Does your clothes actually get wet when you get them "dry cleaned"? If not, how do they get spots out of them? Do they spray chemicals on them?
2007-02-15 02:58:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Yes and no! Yes they ge wet, but not with water:
Dry cleaning is a process that cleans clothes without water. The cleaning fluid that is used is a liquid, and all garments are immersed and cleaned in a liquid solvent -- the fact that there is no water is why the process is called "dry."
A typical wash cycle lasts for 8-15 minutes depending on the type of garments and amount of soiling. During the first three minutes, solvent-soluble soils dissolve into the perchloroethylene and loose insoluble soil from fabrics comes off. It takes approximately ten to twelve minutes after the loose soil has come off to remove all of the ground-in insoluble soil from the garments. Machines using hydrocarbon solvents require a much longer wash cycle of at least 25 minutes because of the much slower rate of solvation of solvent soluble soils (e.g oily stains). A drycleaning surfactant "soap" may also be added.
At the end of wash cycle, the machine starts a rinse cycle and the garment load is rinsed with fresh distilled solvent from the pure solvent tank. This pure solvent rinse prevents discoloration of garments caused by soil particles being absorbed back onto the garment surface from the "dirty" working solvent.
2007-02-15 03:09:25 · answer #1 · answered by distant_foe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are dampened with chemicals and steamed. Then they are pressed. So yeah, they do get wet. I just throw "dry clean only" stuff in a zippered pillowcase and wash in the gentle cycle with Woolite. Then I dry them 1/2 way and then hang to fully dry. It hasn't ever ruined any of my clothes.
2007-02-15 03:08:43 · answer #2 · answered by sexmagnet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The do get wet but not with water they use a chemical they call perk, that's short for the chemical name, its a dangerous chemical and they have to vent all the fumes from it before you get your clothes back, I did work in a dry cleaners and did have to put the clothes in the machine just like a big washing machine.
2016-05-24 03:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They use spot cleaners on the stains. It is all a chemical process.
2007-02-15 03:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋