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Some household items that need washing are just too big to fit into a domestic washing machine.

Let’s just stuff that large item in the washing machine

It’s true. You can try to shoehorn that king size duvet into the washing machine drum but even if you did manage to fit it in, washing it could damage your machine.

The simple fact is, the washing machines in most homes were never designed to hold large household items such as bedding and heavy linens. A lot of the modern computerised machines .throw up an error if the load is too much or unevenly spaced.

Although your original idea might have been to save a few pennies, the end result may be an expensive quilt that end up damaged and an even more expensive machine that gives up the ghost and turns your kitchen into a swimming pool!

Stress not

Churchill Dry Cleaners can clean and refresh all of your oversized household items such as bedding, sofa throws, comforters and sheets to name but a few.

You can drop your items to us and use one of our free parking spaces or you can schedule a pickup.

Your household items will be cleaned at the optimal temperature in our commercial machines. Premium detergents and fabric softeners will be used to ensure that your items come back to you clean, fresh and free from any allergens.

Take back control of your free time

Let Churchill Dry Cleaners handle your washing mountain with a smile leaving you to get on with more important things.

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Dry cleaning is our passion and is actually where Churchill started in 1961.

Some delicate fabrics cannot withstand the rough and tumble of a washing machine and clothes dryer. This is where dry cleaning comes in as it uses chemical solvents instead of water especially due to the fact that some of these delicate fabrics actually degrade in water.

Despite its name, dry cleaning is not a “dry” process; clothes are soaked in a liquid solvent. Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), which the industry calls “perc”,

After being gently washed in “perc”, items only need a gentle steam to remove light creases before being finished and packaged as per your requirements.

This cleaning process is so gentle that almost all fabrics can be cleaned this way unless the label specifically mentions not to.

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Many women dream of their wedding dresses at a young age. So when the big day finally comes, you want to make sure it looks its best then and for years to come.

Many brides save their wedding dresses over the years to remember their special day. For over 50 years, Churchill has been specialising in cleaning wedding dresses old and new across the Reigate area.

Initial Inspection

We know how important your wedding dress is to you, so we inspect every inch of the gown.Our team takes great care to clean the hemline and remove any visible stains. We’ve seen it all. Our specialists have a long history of removing water damage, wine, grass and dirt stains in an effective manner.We will remove any decorative trims or embellishments before cleaning and re-attach them after, if necessary.

Cleaning and Drying

Once your wedding dress is safe it passes through our gentle cleaning process to remove years of built up contaminants that tarnish the appearance. After careful cleaning, your wedding dress is naturally air dried.

Vertical Steaming

Fresh from cleaning and drying your wedding dress passes to our vertical steam section where it is carefully hung on a special mannequin and fully enclosed in a steam chamber. This method of steaming allows for creases to ‘drop out’ yet retains the natural shape and flow of your garment.

Finishing Inspection

Your wedding dress is meticulously inspected and any decorative trims or embellishments removed in step one are re-attached.

Preservation

After the finishing inspection, your wedding dress will be carefully placed in an acid-free wedding dress box lined with acid-free tissue. This special formulation and combination will help prevent the dress from yellowing over time and is the best way to store the dress for years to come.

Presentation

Each bride is invited to inspect their dress to ensure it is up to their standards.

Although the above process is usually carried out on new dresses that have just been worn or heirlooms that are being refreshed, we can easily carry out individual steps if required.

Veils

Your veil can be hand cleaned and preserved as well, either in the same box as the gown or in a box by itself.

Further Information

For such treasured possessions, we always ask that these garments be brought into us as each dress is unique.

For more information about our dry cleaning and preservation services contact Churchill now.

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Curtains and drapes in a home provide privacy, shade, interior design accents, and an effective way to reduce heating and cooling costs. However, while you probably open and close them every day, you are probably overlooking the fact that from time to time they need cleaning. With professional Curtain and Drape cleaning from Churchill Dry Cleaners, you don’t have to worry about tackling this difficult task yourself, making your life easier and keeping your home interior looking beautiful.

Reasons for Curtain and Drape Cleaning

Though curtains and drapes can appear clean to the naked eye, they are often dirtier than you realise. Here are some good reasons to consider cleaning your curtains and drapes:

• Allergen reduction – Curtains and drapes trap a large amount of allergens, pollen, mould, insects and other pollutants that can compromise the air quality in your home.
• Remove dust – Even if you don’t have pets in your home, dirt and dust accumulate in curtains and drapes which gets circulated back into the air whenever you open or close them.
• Maintain appearance – With proper cleaning of your curtains and drapes, they maintain their desired appearance. Drapes, Roman shades, and curtains are all part of the decor of a room and keeping their pattern, texture, and colour looking its best compliments your interior design.
• Longevity – With regular, professional curtain and drape cleaning, you improve the longevity of your curtain and drape fabrics. You also prevent them from having a dirty and unkempt appearance.

Spring and summer are notorious for bringing with them excessive amounts of dust and pollen, both of which readily cling to the curtains and drapes in your home. Keeping them clean avoids irritating allergic reactions throughout your house.

Cleaning reduces build-up of allergens like dust mites, animal hair and dander, which may offer some relief to those with allergies such as asthma.

Prevent discoloration – The act of opening and closing your curtains can deposit natural oils from your skin onto the fabric, which attracts more dust and can lead to discolouration without regular cleaning.

Importance of hiring professional cleaners

While at first you may consider taking your curtains and drapes down and washing them yourself, you might do more harm than good. If you don’t know the material of your window treatments and/or don’t know how to wash them properly, you can damage the drapes or curtains and make it impossible to re-hang them. Important reasons to use Churchill Dry Cleaners to carry out your cleaning include:

• Proper methods – Churchill Dry Cleaners understand all the proper methods for cleaning various materials. Some curtains and drapes are safe enough to launder in our large capacity machines but others require dry-cleaning.
• No shrinking – If you wash your curtains and drapes yourself, apart from forcing them into your small capacity, domestic washing machine, you risk shrinking them. Our specialist team is knowledgeable on the correct way to wash materials such as wool, silk or cotton, and they know how to care for lined drapes as well. Many curtains and drapes are made from mixed materials or incorporate embroidery. Shrinkage in even a small part of the material will noticeably damage the finish and appearance.
• Embellishment consideration – Curtains and drapes with decorative embellishments such as crystals, tassels, or other trim are fragile and won’t survive normal laundering. Our professional cleaning services treat them with the utmost care to ensure that everything stays in one piece and nothing snags or rips.

When you use Churchill Dry Cleaners for professional cleaning of your curtains and drapes, you receive a high-quality, experienced service that’s convenient for your schedule. Contact us to discover how we can help you maintain the beauty of your home’s interior.

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A lot of extreme weather garments such as jackets can be purchased with special qualities such as being waterproof.  Although this ability will not allow you to go scuba diving in your jacket, it will prevent even heavy rain from penetrating the specially treated outer layer. Water will simply ‘bead’ and pour off the surface of the garment.

A lot of people think that this behaviour lasts as long as the garment itself but unfortunately this is not the case.

If you have a favourite waterproof jacket and you find that rainwater is not beading on the surface like it used to, but is saturating the material instead, all is not lost as we can re-proof it.

Simply bring it into us where your garment will be dry cleaned before we re-apply the coating which prevents water from penetrating and your item should be as good as new.

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