EasternDryCleaners.co.nz
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Eastern Drycleaners, Christchurch, Canterbury,New Zealand. We Dry Cleanest.
Description
As you would guess, drycleaning is called drycleaning because it doesn't use water. However, drycleaning is done with a liquid solvent, so in effect the cleaning does get wet, but not with water. It's an important distinction. Water penetrates the fibres of the fabric making them swell, causing felting and shrinkage with some fabrics. The solvent cleans each fibre without the swelling and so felting and shrinkage do not occur.
Also, the cleaning is not normally immersed in the solvent as it is in the water of a washing machine. Instead the solvent circulates through the cleaning, and a series of giant filters remove any insoluble soil. Clean solvent is used in every load. The dry-cleaning process is so gentle almost every fabric can be safely cleaned, from suits to the most delicate of silks and linens.
drycleaner's machines are probably about two metres high, two and a half metres long and from the front look somewhat like giant front-loading washing machines. Everything to be drycleaned has to fit in the machine.
