Are you an ardent follower of fashion trends? Do you love buying clothes and dressing up? Does flaunting your new outfit gives you ultimate pleasure? If yes, lockdown must be proving hard on you. It is quite tough for a fashionista to ditch the urge to shop and stay at home in her boring casual […]
Quality Control – Post-Spotting
Post-cleaning spot removal is another part of our quality control process. Post-spotting, as it is called, uses professional equipment and chemical preparations using steam, water, air, and vacuum. Post-spotting involves a fairly simple process for removing a stain. If the stain had water in it to begin with (bean soup, for example), then it takes water […]
Dry Cleaning – What We Do…
At all our dry cleaning plants, we have the most modern and up to date cleaning machines from the best brands. Our cleaning machines are all motor-driven washer/extractor/dryer that hold from 9 to 45 kg of clothes or fabrics in a rotating, perforated stainless-steel basket. The basket is mounted in a housing that includes motors, pumps, […]
Pre-treating Stains
Pre-treating stains is similar to the procedure used at home when you apply a stain remover to stains prior to washing them. The idea is to try to remove the stain or make its removal easier using chemicals. You can even help the process, especially if you catch the stain early! Simply apply water for […]
Tagging – How We Keep Track of Your Clothes
When you drop off your clothes, every order is identified. This basically includes counting the items and describing them (e.g., shirt, blouse, slacks). Also noted is the drop off date and customer details. We then place a small, colored tag affixed to each piece of clothing with a safety pin or staple, and this tag remains attached to […]
The DombaServ Cleaning Process
When you drop your clothes off at Tip Top, Flash or DombaServ Premium depots, we follow a pattern that holds true at just about any top, world class dry-cleaning operation running today. Your clothes go through the following steps: Tagging and inspection – small paper tags or little labels written on a shirt collar, are used to identify […]
Dry Cleaning Evolution
Like many inventions, dry cleaning came about by accident. In 1855, Jean Baptiste Jolly, a French dye-works owner, noticed that his table cloth became cleaner after his maid accidentally overturned a kerosene lamp on it. Operating through his dye-works company, Jolly offered a new service and called it “dry cleaning.” Early dry cleaners used a […]
What is Dry Cleaning?
Doing laundry has been a common household activity for years. Whether the technology was beating the garments on rocks by the river or pushing buttons on programmed washing machines, this process depends on water and a mechanical action usually assisted by soap or an alkali. The purpose of an alkali is to saponify the oils […]