First Class Cleaner

First Class Cleaners, located in Orlando, Florida is Centrals Florida’s largest full service garment care experts. The success of their cleaning establishment is spearheaded by Jeff Alexander (owner) and Moises Diaz(director of production services). The company guarantees on time service and quality outlined in a unique culture guide booklet. They have an expensive individual cooling system over every spotting board and finishing equipment, giving their employees comfort. They make sure their quality is maintained to the highest standard possible. They have a full time trainer for their finishing department. I do training for the spotting technicians in removing stains, drycleaning and wetcleaning.  The following is an example of the expertise they strive to achieve.

DRYCLEANING

• To achieve the highest standards in drycleaning all loads are run with a white test sample fabric, The results are compared to a new unclean fabric. Any change in brightness is addressed to immediately,
• Filter pressure is watched carefully. Any pressure over five pounds above normal manufacturers recommendation is considered high.
• Solvent flow: The solvent flow or solvent change in the wheel is less than one minute. This means that filtered solvent is brought to the drycleaning wheel in less than one minute.
• Solvent temperature: 75℉~ 80℉.
• Solvent relative humidity-less than 80%.

SPOTTING CHEMICAL QUALITY

 The chemicals that I teach their spotters are environmentally safe and efficient. The quality and efficiently of spotting chemicals vary from company to company,

• Neutral lubricant: This is one of the most important spotting agents that spotters use for effective stain removal. Proper use of neutral lubricant avoids using more aggressive chemicals for wetside stain removal. Neutral lubricants should be diluted with at least half water to ensure that flushing is quick and efficient. Concentrated lubricants cause spotters to hold the steam gun too close for flushing and more apt to cause rings.
• Tannin formulas: The tannin formulas used are slightly acidic and blended with a high quality lubricant.
•  Protein formulas: The protein formulas used are slightly alkaline and do not contain ammonia. They are safe on silk and other delicate fabrics,
• Oily type paint remover: We used those agents that do not contain trichlorethylene and can be flushed wet or dry. These agents are slightly alkaline in nature,
• Oily type ink removers: We used an acid based environmentally safe agent that can be flushed wet or dry. They can be used with a tannin formula and other dryside agents to help remove difficult ink stains.
• Lanolin based ink removers: They are slightly alkaline in nature and can be combined with a protein formula for more effective results.
• Leveling agents: We used a soy bean based leveling agent for removing rings from wetside spotting.