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Clothes Care Gazette

Family Owned and Operated for Over 70 Years

March, 2008               Environmentally Responsible Dry Cleaner                        Volume 4,   Number 7

In This Issue
 

·    Household Savings

·    Feature – Focus on Life Expectancy of Household Textiles

·    Ask the Experts

·    Next Month Preview

·    And Before I Close...

Happy First Day of Spring!

 March 20th

Category of Links for March:

Celebrate Spring

Crafts and fun stuff

Spring Has Sprung

Explanation of Vernal Equinox

Reehorst Cleaners

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Westlake,  OH  44145

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Household Savings

  We are running our Annual Household Sale now through March 31st.  We are offering 20% off the dry cleaning price of blankets, quilts, down comforters, bedspreads, duvet covers and draperies.  Our gentle Adjust-A-Drape cleaning process restores colors and textures to your pleated draperies.  We assure smooth folds, squared corners, exact lengths and even hem lines. We also offer feather pillow renewal.  "What's this?" you may ask.   Sleep on lumpy, lifeless soiled down or feather pillows?  Bring them in to us for our pillow service. Pillow restoration involves emptying the feathers into a feather-cleaning machine that resembles a front-loading washer with a window in the door.  Then, as the drum turns, the feathers are fluffed and sanitized by an ultraviolet, germicidal light that kills the germs in the feathers and the sand or dust from old feathers is sifted away.  New feathers can be added to make your pillows plumper.  The feathers are then blown into a new ticking.  Your pillows are returned to you fresh and clean.

 The American National Standards Institute approved the Fair Claims Guide for consumer Textile Products.  This standard provides the guidelines for determining liability for claims adjustment purposes for textile products.  It also includes the following life expectancy chart for household textile items:

Q. My mother's birthday is coming up at the end of the month and I want to give her a nice down comforter.  What things should I look for to ensure I am getting a nice quality comforter?

 A.  Most problems that arise with down come in the cleaning process.  Although cleaning down items is not usually a problem a garment with poor construction and insufficient quilting can cause the down to shift, lose shape or become matted.  Inspect the comforter for these things before purchasing:

• Make sure the garment is well quilted.  Preferably, quilting stitches should run both vertical and horizontally with quilting lines about 8 to 10 inches apart.

• Check the strength of the garment's stitching.  Poorly constructed garments with loose stitching can allow the down to shift.

• Check for fullness of the quilted areas.  Thicker filling will provide more insulation.

   (If you have a question for our experts, just email us at editor@reehorstcleaners.com)

Spring!

Spring ahead to Daylight Savings Time on

 Sunday, March 9th!

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