Dry cleaning is the cleaning of garments in an organic solvent, such as perchloroethylene (Perc) or refined hydrocarbons, as opposed to washing or laundering, where water is used instead of a solvent. Specialised detergent additives are added to the solvent during the dry cleaning process to aid in soil and stain removal.

During conventional washing, damp garments are removed from washing machines after spinning and can be dried either by natural evaporation, i.e., garments are hung out to dry, or by tumble drying. With dry cleaning, the “damp” garments are actually saturated with solvent, not water, so open evaporative drying is not an option. Instead, the dry cleaning machine utilises a modified process of tumble drying to remove the residual solvent from the garments while simultaneously allowing the solvent to be recovered and recycled.

New Sparklean Laundry provides professional Dry Cleaning Services for your garments.