What to do first if you will get stains?
For business lunches, you sit with business partners at the table. While your neighbor tells a funny story, she wildly gestures with her arm and tosses her red wine glass. Of course, this ends up on the table and the contents not only on the white cotton tablecloth but also on your shirt. What now?
Commercial laundry specialist explains how to easily remove red wine and other stains yourself, what better way to clean them, and which stains even professionals find themselves at their limits.
Good to know:
The fresher and the less treated, the better are stains to remove from clothing. Because: A pretreatment can change the stain substance. This also makes professional cleaning difficult.
The same dissolves in the same way: water-containing stains dissolve well with water. Fresh fruit stains can, therefore, be solved well with cold water.
Stains that come into the textile with grease do not dissolve well in water. Instead of trying it on sensitive textiles with gall soap or dish soap, recommends
Commercial laundry service - Go with grease stains directly to the textile cleaner. If the fiber is damaged, the stain can also disappear with the stain.
The most common and most persistent stains:
Salad and gravies on ties and other garments, red wine on tablecloths and other food stains are quite common. New remedies, such as special sprays that do not harm cotton shirts, can help.
Particularly stubborn and thus difficult to remove are greasy soiling caused, for example, by bicycle chain or engine oil. Stain remover that you get in the trade cannot solve everything. Certain detoxification agents are only available in dry cleaners.
What can only professional textile cleaners remove?
For greasy soiling commercial laundry recommends going straight to the textile cleaner, because he can remove almost all stains and have a duty of care compared to textiles.
Only textile cleaners are allowed to chemically clean textiles in organic solvents. If there were any risks of damaging the polluted substance, the customer would be informed in the conversation.
Remove red wine stains - that's how it works?
1. Salt: As an emergency, if the stain is fresh, you can sprinkle salt on it, because salt binds the red dye.
2. Water: Rinse with cold water.
3. Washing: And into the washing machine, because during washing the stain is rinsed off.
If a glass falls over on the table, it is also easy to stain several textiles. For example, to remove the red wine stain from a white cotton tablecloth, you can wash it well with a heavy-duty detergent even at 70 to 90 degrees.
