Brantley Cleaners Back-To-School Drive & COVID-19 Update

Our stores are OPEN and ready to serve you! 

Community Support-

Announcing the Brantley Cleaners Back-To-School Drive! We know that there is so much uncertainty going on in the world right now, but one thing is certain, children’s needs do not stop. We are encouraging all our customers, family and friends to participate in our Back-To-School Drive! Essential needs are listed below. All items will be donated to the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. Items can be donated at either of our locations or left with your garment bag for our route customers. We will collect items thru August 7th! We hope you can participate!

Back to school
Clothing for boys and girls – New or Gently Used
Backpacks- New or Gently used
School supplies- Anything will be accepted and can be used
Undergarments for girls (all sizes; all ages)
Socks
New shoes – Any size is acceptable

Toiletries
Kids’ shampoo/conditioner (2-in-1 or 3-in-1)
Body soap/shower gel
Body lotion
Deodorant
Toothpaste/toothbrushes
Feminine hygiene products

Other Items
Toys for boys and girls (for all ages)
Dolls
White standard pillowcases
Flat irons, hair-styling accessories for teens
Target, Walmart, Academy, Payless Shoes store gift cards

Our Services & Cleaning Efforts

We follow cleaning guidelines year-round in an effort to maintain a clean environment for our customers and employees.

Our dry cleaning stores are required to regularly clean and disinfect general common areas of use – door handles, credit card pin pads, counters, etc. We are doing everything to ensure a clean and safe environment for our customers and staff members.

Masks – As per requirements issued by the Governor Abbott, individuals entering public buildings must wear a face mask.

Want a more contactless experience?  Our free pickup and delivery service is operating without interruption and provides twice-a-week service.

Services –We continue to offer all services at our stores and via our pick up and delivery, including our popular wash and fold laundry service.  However, same day service for both dry cleaning and shirt laundry is currently unavailable.

Alterations & Repairs – We are available to help with ALL alteration needs. If a fitting is needed, we will provide that while still doing our best to follow all CDC guidelines to ensure the safety of the customer and staff member.

We look forward to seeing you!

-Brantley Cleaners Family

Do I Need to Clean My Wool Coats?

 
 Wool coat cleaning is one of the many items Brantley Cleaners can clean. These are warm, durable, and often very stylish. However, these coats require special care to make sure that dust and dirt are cleaned off properly. You can find many articles online about taking care of wool coats, but there are two main things you need to know.

Good Care Ensures Long Wear

Properly taking care of your wool coat will lengthen its life span dramatically. It is worth the effort to maintain these. After all, wool coats are an expensive investment, often a lifetime use purchase. Be gentle with these coats, storing them properly and they will serve you well. Part of taking good care of your coat involves cleaning them properly. A mere brush with a lint roller doesn’t quite cut it. Often, small particles of dust, food residue, and bacteria can find their way onto the coat and never make it out. However, wool coats cannot simply be cleaned in a washing machine. The heat and motion of the washer and dryer damage the coat and give a high possibility of shrinking. Dry cleaning ensures proper cleansing of wool coats. With a good dry cleaning, a wool coat can appear brand new! This is why Brantley Cleaners Dry Cleaners is often trusted with winter coats at the end of the winter season.

You Can Help Prevent Moth Problems

As mentioned above, dust particles, food residue, and bacteria can linger on a wool coat, making it a breeding ground for different types of bugs. This includes moth larvae, notorious for eating holes into wool clothing. Moths can completely ruin expensive wool items, rendering them useless. Since it is time to pack up the coats for the spring season, properly cleaning them is necessary to prevent a moth invasion. This ensures that during the next few months that the coat is unused, it remains safe and clean for the next winter season.

After the end of winter, bring your wool coats, jackets and sweaters into Brantley Cleaners Addison or Brantley Cleaners University Park to make sure they are properly cleaned. We are truly the best dry cleaners in the DFW area who cares about their customers.

How to take care of your sweaters

Sweater weather is here in Dallas Fort Worth, so it’s time to pull out your sweaters and be sure they’re ready to wear. It may also be a good time to brush up on your sweater care practices.

SWEATER CARE

First, sort through your sweaters. If they weren’t cleaned before you stored them for summer bring them to Brantley Cleaners Addison or Brantley Cleaners University Park.

Wash cotton, silk, and cashmere sweaters every other time you wear them. Wool and synthetic fabrics or blends like acrylic and polyester can go for about five wearings. The exception is a spill or stain. Clean these immediately and follow the label instructions carefully. If you don’t want to bother with the care, you can always bring directly to us!

Dry clean all wool or wool blends. Machine washing wool will damage the fabric and probably ruin your sweater. Either wash or use Brantley Cleaners laundry service for sweaters made from other fabrics. Never wring sweaters. Gently squeeze the water out and lay them flat on a towel. Roll them up to remove excess moisture. Then lay them flat to dry on a clean towel.

Remove jewelry before putting on or taking off a sweater to avoid snags. If you get a snag, bring it to us! We will take care of it for you! We also can reweave and rehem any repairs.

Reminder- we can also protect your clothes from moths! Call us to learn more! Brantley Cleaners Addison and Brantley Cleaners University Park are here for you!

Voted Best Dry Cleaners Again!

Brantley Cleaners has been voted Readers Choice Best Dry Cleaners in Addison by Addison Magazine for the past 2 years! We would like to thank our customers for their loyalty and support of us and our family at Brantley Cleaners! We pride ourselves in being the Best Dry Cleaner in the North Dallas Corridor. 

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How Often Should You Dry Clean Your Clothes?

We hear this question often and wanted to give you a few pointers on how often you should Dry Clean your clothes. Despite information to the contrary, professional dry cleaning will actually prolong the life of a garment. In fact, it’s the oils, body salts, cologne, perfumes, hair products, insoluble soil, rain, food and beverage stains that will shorten the life of your garment.

First and foremost, a person’s body heat, activity, and the clothing’s stains largely determine cleaning frequency. If a garment is soiled or affected by perspiration or odor, it should be dry-cleaned as soon as possible. Light color garments and frequently worn clothes are especially susceptible to dirt and require more frequent cleaning. Have all matching pieces such as suits cleaned at the same time. This prevents any inconsistencies resulting from color changes. Always clean your garments before storing away for a season. Moths and insects are attracted to oil and perspiration.

Below are some more specific guidelines based on the Texas climate:

Clean EVERY other wearing: Tuxedo, Dress, Skirt, Wool pants, Men or Women’s Suit, Sportcoat or Blazer, Sweaters
Clean EVERY wearing: Evening wear, Cotton laundered shirt, Blouses, Pullovers, khakis and lightweight dress pants
Clean at the End of the Season: Coats and other outerwear

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Trust Us With Your Holiday Best!

Whether it is your cute “ugly” christmas sweater or your christmas tree skirt, we are here to help! No item is ever a challenge for us to clean. Oh and guess what- Santa’s suits are a breeze for us too.

Before all of the parties, games and fancy meals, some of your best dresses, suits and accessories may need some attention. To have the best chance at getting stains out of these special occasion garments, be as prompt as you can about cleaning them. Brantley Cleaners can handle it all, just come on in and we will make sure to help you look your very best this holiday season.

We have a variety of specials this month that will help you with your Christmas tie and snowman sweater to all their wonderful glory!

As a reminder, we will be closed the day before Christmas, so please be sure to come see us before than! We are located in the Addison Walk Shopping Center and in Snider Plaza in University Park.

Happy Holidays and hope to see you soon!

Refer-A-Friend Program

The best compliments we could ever receive is the compliment of a referral.

Have you had a great experience at either of our locations recently? Do you love having the amenity of never having to go the dry cleaners because of our complimentary pick-up and delivery program? If so, we would love for you to refer-a-friend. Once the referral uses our services for a month, we will thank you by applying a $15 credit towards your next service. Why not have your neighbor join in on the fun!

If you want to learn more about this program you can click here to be taken to our Refer-A-Friend page.

Refer-A-Friend Offer

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Eco-Friendly Dry Cleaning: What does this mean?

Do you ever wonder what it means when you ask if a dry cleaners is eco-friendly?

An eco-friendly dry cleaners is a cleaner that uses environmentally friendly solutions while cleaning your clothes. This means not using the same kind of chemicals that are used in automobiles and other industrial factories.  In addition, in eco-friendly cleaners has state of the art dry cleaning and laundry equipment that allow your clothes to be looking the best while not contaminating the grounds and the air.

Brantley Cleaners Addison and Brantley Cleaners University Park are both an eco-friendly dry cleaners that is committed to providing the best quality cleaning while being environmentally conscious. Did you know we also recycle all of our hangers, plastics, paper & shirt clips. You can come by any of our locations and drop these materials off. Let’s all work together to keep this world clean and eco-friendly.

Why are we the cleaner that cares?

Why do we call ourselves the “cleaner that cares”?

Brantley Cleaners does its best to provide a dry cleaning experience unlike others. From the moment you walk in to the moment you walk out we do our best to make your experience, one that is unforgettable. There are three main reasons why we call ourselves the “cleaner that cares”.

Quality Cleaning– We are proud to say that we provide nothing but the best quality for your clothes, upholstery and other items. We have invested in state of the art equipment to make sure your clothes are cleaned thoroughly and come out looking better than the day you bought them. We also go through intensive inspections at multiple points in the cleaning process to ensure nothing has been overlooked. If there are buttons missing or minor repairs, we take care of them at no cost to you.

Extraordinary Customer Service– Ali and Zeb, the owners of Brantley Cleaners, pride themselves in remembering their customers names, wants and needs. They can instantly tell what there customers desire without them having to go much into detail.

Definite Satisfaction– By being cautious of every item that passes through our dry cleaning process we ensure that you will be satisfied with the quality of your cleaning. We also go to many lengths to make sure that we do what we can to make sure each one of our ­­customers are taken care of by doing the best we can to fulfill any requests. If for some reason you aren’t satisfied with the outcome, we will do it all over again at no cost to you, when possible.

At Brantley Cleaners, you are promised an experience that many other dry cleaners can’t provide. By being family owned and operated we truly care about the details. In the end, that is what makes us the “cleaner that cares”.

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Why to Preserve Your Wedding Gown

Why to Preserve Your Wedding Gown

Now that wedding season is almost over, time to think about preserving the biggest day of your life forever. You have the pictures and the video in the works, why not your beautiful wedding gown also. At Brantley Cleaners, we can preserve your wedding dress in a beautiful white box with treatment that will prevent it from ever yellowing. Below are a few common questions that most customers ask about this service.

What is Wedding Gown Preservation?

  • Wedding Gown Preservation is a special cleaning and packaging process used to make sure your gown retains it’s original beauty. Once your dress arrives in the facility it goes through our meticulous two week long process which includes hand treatment, through examination for repairs and special stain treatments. After the cleaning process comes the pressing and preserving process. The dress is hand pressed with care and then a special preservation application is applied on the dress to keep it from ever yellowing. At the end of the preservation process, the wedding gown will be boxed up in a keep-sake box. Remember, to bring your dress in shortly after your wedding before the stains from that night settle in.

What are the benefits?

  • The preservation will protect your wedding dress from ever being harmed or destroyed. You will have the option to have it placed in a beautiful white box with a clear window front. We also have customization options available for the box to keep that ever lasting memory. Customization options can include names, dates and picture of the happy couple. This is a great way to keep the dress accessible to look at without damaging it.

When ready to preserve your wedding dress bring it in to either our Addison or University Park location and we will be sure to get this need taken care of for you. If you are within the Dallas vicinity we can schedule a complimentary pick-up and delivery for you. Over the years we have been trusted by over 1000 brides to clean and preserve their wedding dress.  We pride ourselves in the service we provide and hope you will trust us when the time comes to preserve your special days memories.

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