General Cleaning Tips from The Laundry Club - How to Clean Your Curtains
Your curtains will collect dust, dirt, allergens, and other things that you don’t want in your house while it hangs by your window. Cleaning and changing your curtains once a month can help minimize the dust and dirt that will accumulate in your living space.
But how does one clean a curtain? Do you just take it down and put it on a cycle along with your other garments? Do you need to go to a cheap dry cleaning service outlet?
Here are some tips on how you can clean your curtains at home, brought to you by The Laundry Club, Singapore’s best laundry and dry cleaning service provider:
Check your curtains for laundry tags. These tags can be found in the seams or corners of your curtains, it holds information about how to clean your curtains, these instructions contain symbols for hand washing, which cycle to use, or if it’s dry clean only.
If it’s washable, put it in a laundry mesh bag. Don’t toss it in with your other garments, instead, make a separate wash cycle for it. Putting it in a mesh bag will still clean out dust while ensuring that the fabric won’t be tossed around the washing machine.
Dry clean only? Don’t risk it. If your curtain’s laundry tag says, ‘DRY CLEAN ONLY’ then you will have to go to a local dry cleaning and laundry service shop that specialises in curtains and other fabric fixtures. These professional cleaners use chemicals and solvents to wash dirt, stains, and dust away from your window covers.
No time to go to the dry cleaners? Steam your curtains. Steaming and dusting will do your good in the meantime. Dusting will dislodge any dirt that’s clinging to the fabrics of the curtain and steaming will sanitize your curtain and soften it at the same time.
Take care of your curtains with a cleaning routine that will guarantee its quality and longevity. Special curtains require special care (e.g thick curtains that require a trip to the dry cleaners) but a regular dusting session wouldn’t hurt.
