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EcoClean Wet Cleaning in San Antonio

EcoClean does not currently provide eco friendly dry cleaning in San Antonio. But we do think it is important for everyone to learn about the dangers of perc and the advantages of wet cleaning. Explore the rest of the site to see why EcoClean is  the best dry cleaners in Austin.

About Wet Cleaning

What is Wet Cleaning?


Is Wet Cleaning The Same Thing as Green Dry Cleaning?


How Did Wet Cleaning Start?


How Will My Clothes Turn Out?


Dry Cleaning Process

Not So Dry, Not So Clean

What is dry cleaning? A dry-cleaning machine works sort of like home washing machine combined with a clothes dryer. Most San Antonio dry cleaners use this process.

  1. First, garments are placed into a washing/extraction chamber. The chamber fills approximately one-third full of the solvent perchloroethylene (also called perc), and the chamber begins to rotate, pushing the solution through the clothing.
  2. Most wash cycles last between 8-15 minutes (depending on the fabric type and soil level). During the wash cycle, the perc solution is repeatedly passed through a filtration chamber to remove dirt and grease before being fed back into the wash chamber. This same perc solution will be used throughout the week to clean thousands of garments. As a general rule of thumb, the cheaper your cleaner the less frequently they use new fresh perc. Dry cleaners cut cost by using their perc as long as possible… yuck!
  3. During the first three minutes of the wash cycle, the perc dissolves the solvent-soluble soils and loosens debris. Approximately ten to twelve minutes into the wash cycle, the ground-in insoluble soils begin to loosen from the fabric fibers. All of the dirt is trapped in the machine’s sludge filter.
  4. After swishing around with all that well-used perc and soil, the garments are rinsed with fresh distilled solvent. The machine then begins the extraction process to recover 99.99% of the solvent for reuse.
  5. In the drying cycle, warm air is passed through the clothes and then through a chiller unit that condenses the solvent vapors and returns them to the distilled solvent tank to be reused—again and again and again.

Dangers of Perc



What is Perc?


Are They Sure Perc is Bad?



What Does Perc Do To People?


What Happens To All That Spilled Perc?


How Much Perc is Too Much?

