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• The laundry guy richardson professional#

“He was, however, right in his comments about fabric softeners and how they can stop items, especially towels, from absorbing moisture, but prescribing the use of oxygen bleach without advising prior testing on an unexposed inner seam area was not sensible advice. “Patric Richardson never mentioned the benefit of an alkali to remove and suspend heavy soiling in a wash process on non-wool textiles, therefore, perhaps, in his world experience clothing is only ever lightly soiled. And this is where a drycleaner does have the expertise to understand and therefore uses the appropriate product and process for the textile. Soap flakes, or bar soap, have a lower pH than a synthetic detergent, therefore is more suitable for washing wool because wool is damaged by alkali (higher pH detergent) but wool is also susceptible to shrinkage damage in hot water, which can be defined as water that is too hot to put your hand in. “Professional cleaners know that there is a difference between soap and detergent, even though we all sometimes refer to the wash products under the common term of soap. He also never mentioned the damage likely to knitted wool garments either in washing or drying. He also stated that garment care labels were not important guides to laundry care, but he never repeated, in the time he was on air, the reporter’s introduction that clothes never need to be drycleaned again.

He started by saying that everything could be soaked in hot water (but did not define the temperature of what is hot). “His analogy was that sheep stay out in the rain therefore all our wool garments can be washed. “His laundry expertise, he claims, he learned from his grandmother and over the next few minutes said that listeners did not need many different laundry products and should only use a limited amount of soap flakes for washing, and white vinegar, mixed with water, for stain removal, as well as oxygen bleach for some other stains.

The laundry guy richardson professional#

KEN CUPITT, GUILD OF CLEANERS AND LAUNDERERS, pictured, said: “Our advice, from the Guild of Cleaners and Launderers, is to take it to the professional because washing is not just about taking out the stain and soil but is also about restoring the finish afterwards, and here the drycleaner can do this because they have the equipment, knowledge, and skill to get it right.Ĭupitt writes: “On 12 April BBC Radio 4 ran its daily ‘You and Yours’ consumer slot with presenter Winifred Robinson in which she announced that listeners need never have their clothes drycleaned again and introduced The Laundry Guy, Patric Richardson from Minnesota, USA, who we learned has a regular broadcast channel on the American Discovery Channel and who also claims to be a textile expert. LCN approached Ken Cupitt of the Guild of Cleaners and Launderers for his opinion and to clarify points made by The Laundry Guy. At a time when so many textile care businesses are just beginning to think that maybe, as lockdown eases, they might have a chance to rebuild their businesses, it was a punch to the gut to hear a radio programme announce that people need never use a drycleaner again and that proven wash processes – like using detergent – are unnecessary.