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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 […]
Beat the School Rush
DombaServ is proud to announce the “Beat the School Rush” Competition running until the 29th of April 2016… Take your a school blazer to any Tip Top or Flash Depot before the 29th of April and you only have to pay $2 per blazer… This promotion is running up to the 29th of April 2016 and […]
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 […]