How does dry cleaning not damage clothing that is delicate? They obviously don't use water/soap/etc. but then how does stuff get clean?
2007-06-30 08:04:43 · 4 answers · asked by pretty_kitty1698 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Dry cleaning washes your clothes in chemicals instead of water. The most common solvent for dry cleaning is perchloroethylene. Clothes get damaged at dry cleaners too...fairly often. You can ask them to clean it by hand, usually for an extra charge.
Most clothes can be gently handwashed instead of dry-cleaned. Acetate really can't be washed (used for linings, especially common in wool pants) and some silks can't either. A lot of clothes that say they're dry clean only say that because they're not constructed very well and are less likely to fall apart during dry cleaning than laundering.
2007-06-30 08:15:16 · answer #1 · answered by Judi 6 · 63⤊ 9⤋
How Does Dry Cleaning Work
2016-10-03 02:48:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dry cleaning, despite what some folks may think, is not totally a dry process. It’s similar to home laundering as the clothes do get wet in the solvent, which then evaporates much more quickly than water. This is because the solvent contains little or no water which is how the process got its name, “dry cleaning”.
The process involves the use of solvents to get the garment cleaner. In most cases, a solvent called perchlorethylene (perc), is used by the vast majority of dry cleaners around the world. Dry Cleaners uses advanced computerized machines, some similar to a home washing machine. The garments are immersed in the solvent and the garments then goes through several cycles, and then the solvent is re-circulated through filters throughout the cycles to remove all the impurities loosened during the process.
The Dry cleaning process has two distinct advantages over traditional water based cleaning. Water causes the garments fibres to swell as a result the garments shrink and loses its color through fading of the dye. Dry cleaning solvents are far more superior to traditional water based cleaning in the removal of greasy or oily residues which are core components of many stains.
2014-03-09 14:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by K.B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-12-02 19:06:16 · answer #4 · answered by kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋