Curtain Clean and Chemdry Rotorua have

teamed up to provide you with our fabulous

Curtain Cleaning service.

Chemdry can provide you with a full take down and rehang sevice before and after cleaning or you can just take your curtains or blinds into Chemdry in Rotorua for them to send for Curtain Cleaning.

Call them today or drop your curtains or blinds off next time in town.

Click Here To Call Chemdry Rotorua 073436020

Email: rotorua@chemdry.co.nz

1420 Pukuatua Street
Rotorua 3010

Open Weekdays 8am-4pm; also open Weekends

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Website: Rotorua Chemdry

Ph. 08005790501

Are your CURTAINS AND DRAPES covered in MILDEW & Mould?

GOT curtains that look like this?

Click on picture for bigger image. Twice for a real close look.

Want your curtains to look like NEW AGAIN?

Curtain Clean specializes in cleaning all types of curtains and drapes (from silk to sacking), thermals, nets, Roman Blinds, Austrian Blinds, Holland Blinds (roller blinds), Vertical Blinds, Venetian Blinds and Wooden Venetian Blinds.

Curtains can be couriered to us for cleaning or can be sent through agents in the area’s where Curtain Clean has an agent.
The list of agents and their local contact details can be found below.

Click Here To Call 006475790501

List of Agents.

Email: curtainclean@callplus.net.nz

Google Map

Have your curtains gone black with the mildew like this one?

Mouldy Curtain.

No need for new ones

We can give them a new life with our curtain cleaning process.

They will look like this when cleaned.

Curtain carefully cleaned at Curtain Clean.

Curtains may hang there for years at a time and are often the most neglected furnishing in the house,  absorbing household smells from cooking etc, until they are covered in dust and black mould, stains, dirt from handling and animals and so people think they need to replace them

Curtain Clean specializes in cleaning all types of curtains and drapes (from silk to sacking), thermals, nets, Roman Blinds, Austrian Blinds, Holland Blinds (roller blinds), Vertical Blinds, Venetian Blinds and Wooden Venetian Blinds.

Stain removal and especially mildew removal can be difficult. Many people encounter problems when they try to do the job themselves because washing machines are too small for today’s curtains and using a washing machine can lead to damage to the fabrics. Tumble drying can also damage fabrics so that they do not hang properly again.

Dry Cleaning doesn’t remove the stains nor the mildew.

At Curtain Clean we use a gentle hand washing process and natural drying. No solvents are used in the process either.

Help is at the click of the Mouse.

Give your  curtains a new life with our cleaning process.

Call Curtain Clean

PH 0800 5790501

or one of many agents found on this list here.

or check with the website for more details, pictures and how to send curtains to Curtain Clean.

Curtain Cleaning and Restoration by

NZ’s best Curtain Cleaners and Restorers.

We are seeing a lot of curtains coming in for cleaning that have been sprayed either with the so called Curtain Majic Curtain Cleaner or with Exit Mould.

A curtain cleaner they are not. The product will remove and temporally control the bacteria that cause mildew on curtains. Mostly this is on the lining but not always. Its similar to a product you would spray on cobblestones.

The chemical product can cause damage to fabrics, especially if left to dry on the fabric. Often applied to the linnings it can, once dry rub off onto the material and when it gets wet  can  comeback to life if allowed to dry on a fabric which is later washed and in doing so can damage or bleach the colour out of the fabric.

The most important point of the claim about these curtain cleaners though, is it is not a curtain cleaner but a  mould killer and mould stain remover.

WARNING:

Spray on cleaners used in households can cause serious damage to curtain fabrics.

Many fabrics are not colour fast and many of these cleaners will either change or remove the colour from the fabric.

Sometimes this may not be noticeable until the curtain gets wet, either when being cleaned or through water ingress at the window.

There is no way to remedy this and the curtain will remain damaged.

The pictures below show what happens.

Splotches show where colour has been stripped from the curtain material.

There is NO remedy.

A curtain cleaner it is not. The product will remove and temporally control the bacteria that cause mildew on curtains. Mostly this is on the lining but not always. Its similar to a product you would spray on cobblestones.

To clean a curtain it needs washing or perhaps dry cleaning. All the chemical Curtain Cleaners do is remove the mildew and mildew stain on the patches that it is applied to. It does not remove any other stains, grease, hand creams, oils, dirt, dust, odours, cat and dog rubbings and hair, fly dirt, insect dirt, and all those other hazards that are part of a curtains life.

Many people spend thousands of dollars on curtains and expect specialist advice on cleaning and care of their curtains.

Curtain Cleaners.co.nz are those specialists.

Curtain Cleaners: Auckland City, ,Cambridge, Christchurch, Coromandel, Dargaville, , East Auckland, Gisborne, , Hamilton, Hastings, , Lower Hutt,, Masterton, Matamata,Mt. Maunganui, Napier, New Plymouth, Nth Shore, Orewa, Palmerston North, Papakura, Queenstown, Rotorua, South Auckland, Taupo, Tauranga,Tokoroa , Upper Hutt, Waiheke Island, Waikanae, Warkworth, Wellington, West Auckland, Whangarei

For further help either email us with your details at curtainclean@callplus.net.nz or call 0800 5790501

WELLINGTON CITY, NGAIO, TAWA, LINDEN,

JOHNSONVILLE, PORIRUA, PARAMATA,

PLIMMERTON.

Creative Curtains of Tawa and Curtain Clean have teamed up to provide you with our fabulous Curtain Cleaning service.

Creative Curtains of Tawa can provide you with a full take down and rehang sevice before and after cleaning or you can take your curtains or blinds into Creative Curtains at 20 Main St. Tawa for them to send to Curtain Clean.

Call them today or drop your curtains or blinds off next time in town.

Phone; 04-232 3868

Email; enquiries@creativecurtains.net.nz

Opening Hours
Mon – Fri 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sat 9:00am – 12:00

PETONE, LOWER HUTT, WAINUI, STOKES

VALLEY, UPPER HUTT AND DISTRICTS.

The Curtain Store

The Curtain Store and Curtain Clean have

teamed up to provide you with our fabulous

Curtain Cleaning service.

Curtain Store Upper Hutt can provide you with a full take down and rehang sevice before and after cleaning or you can just take your curtains or blinds into Curtain Store in Queen St. Upper Hutt for them to send to Curtain Clean.

Call them today or drop your curtains or blinds off next time in town.

Phone; 04-569 1969

The Curtain Store

OR,

You can courier them to us at Curtain Clean. Many people do.

All the couriers can forward to us.

The Post Shops have courier boxes in different sizes which do the job well.

You can of course use any strong box or simply fold the curtains and wrap in sturdy plastic.

See sending curtains to Curtain Clean for instructions.

Curtain Clean

Professional Curtain Cleaners

Curtain Clean is New Zealand’s foremost curtain cleaning company. We clean curtains, drapes, Roman Blinds and other window draperies from all round New Zealand.

Curtain Clean specializes in cleaning all types of curtains and drapes (from silk to sacking), thermals, nets, Roman Blinds, Austrian Blinds, Holland Blinds (roller blinds), Vertical Blinds, Venetian Blinds and Wooden Venetian Blinds.

Curtain Clean has been Cleaning Curtains for 16 years now and we have a team of careful and fussy ladies who don’t like you getting curtains back too short because of shrinkage once they are washed . Its our policy to check all curtains length’s on arrival and ensure to the best of our capabilities that we return them the same length.

We have skilled sewing ladies who are part of the team and who check the curtains for repairs, finish them and pack ready to to return to you for rehanging.

Mildew Removal Specialists

Curtains & Drapes Thermals & Nets Austrian Blinds Roman Blinds

Curtain Clean and Colourplus Opotiki have

teamed up to provide you with our fabulous

Curtain Cleaning service.

Colourplus Opotiki can provide you with a full take down and rehang sevice before and after cleaning or you can take your curtains or blinds into Colourplus Opotiki in Chruch St. for them to send to Curtain Clean.

Call them today or drop your curtains or blinds off next time in town.

Colourplus Opotki

Colourplus offers the latest in fashion fabrics and window treatments, and with a variety of fabrics and styles, you will be spoilt for choice. Our experienced staff offer expert advice and supply custom made curtains, blinds and bedspreads from premier New Zealand suppliers such as Maurice Kain, Charles Parsons, Ken Bimler Fabrics, Warwick Fabrics, James Dunlop Textiles, Luxaflex & Rufflette.

Curtain Clean

Professional Curtain Cleaners

Curtain Clean is New Zealand’s foremost curtain cleaning company. Located in sunny Tauranga we clean curtains,drapes, Roman Blinds and other window draperies from all round New Zealand.

Curtain Clean is owned and operated by Margaret and Robert Anderson,and we clean curtains from all over New Zealand

Curtain Clean specializes in cleaning all types of curtains and drapes (from silk to sacking), thermals, nets, Roman Blinds, Austrian Blinds, Holland Blinds (roller blinds), Vertical Blinds, Venetian Blinds and Wooden Venetian Blinds.

Curtain Clean has been Cleaning Curtains for 16 years now and we have a team of careful and fussy ladies who don’t like you getting curtains back too short because of shrinkage once they are washed . Its our policy to check all curtains length’s on arrival and ensure to the best of our capabilities that we return them the same length.

We have skilled sewing ladies who are part of the team and who check the curtains for repairs, finish them and pack ready to to return to you for rehanging.

Ph. 08005790501

This was the case recently when Curtain Clean were sent four large and high real silk curtains that were about 40 years old. Aside from the cleaning of the curtains there was a considerable amount of repair work needed on the curtains.

The sun had attacked the fabric and had caused the fabric to shred down the leading edges, the linnings were perished in the same places. To make the job more involved the curtains had sewn on stripes of a different mateial and they had Goblet Pleats  filled with filler to keep them full.

Our task was to make them good again so.

We removed the stripes and reinforced with stitching the weak area’s of fabric. We then washed the curtains gaining a really good result removing 40 years of grime.

Next we had to cut out the shredded sections on each curtain and make those edges good again.

Once that was done the stripes were sewn back in place, goblets refilled and curtains ironed ready for rehanging.

All this was done at approximately 25% of the cost of replacing the Silk curtains with equivalant new silk curtains.

Mildew on Curtains?

These two pictures are of windows in a unit in the Waikato on a cool morning. The bedroom door opened onto a room that had a heat pump going all during the night. The rising sun shows the extent of the moisture. ( Click on the photo for a closer look.) You can see that the curtains and the blind are well away from touching the window but had still gone mouldy.

The answer: Not Directly.

Only if the curtains are actually touching or touch the window, which most don’t.

It derives from and does contribute to the general humidity in the surrounds around the curtain which again contributes to the development of mould.

Water on windows is mostly somewhere between 75 and 100 mm from a curtain so how it hops the space to create mould is an interesting question.

I have seen curtains more than a meter from the windows and still moldy and curtains 20 years old with no mould. Not in the sun.

Moisture on windows is caused by the lower dew point of the glass. The warmer the air in a room/house the more moisture it will hold. It is a natural reaction for the moisture in the air to collect on the cool glass as the warm moist air attempts to equalize the air temperature and the glass temperature. The cooler glass sucks the heat out of the air.

(Heat always travels from hot towards cold.), leaving the moisture on the window and the warmth heating the glass until the outside temperature is the same as the inside temperature.

The closer together the temperature of the air and the glass the less it will happen. Indeed in the summer it works in the opposite where the higher temp of the glass heats the air in the room. This would also occur on days in the winter when the air in the house is cooler than the glass that’s heated by the sun. As soon as the temperature reverses the dew point on the glass lowers and then we have moisture on the windows.

Same happens in your car.

For an explanation go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point

Now without the sun or heating of some kind warming the curtains and the room, the curtains would remain at the ambient room air temperature but that’s not what happens. Heating or the sun will warm the curtains which like the air absorb the moisture from the air around them. This is also influenced by the humidity in the air at the time. If the curtains are cooler than the air in the room then any humidity will be absorbed by the curtains.

In doing so they also absorb the bacteria that is entrapped in that moisture. It important to note that that moisture can be from any source both inside and outside of the immediate vicinity of the curtains, for moisture in the air is carried by air currents that swirl around constantly, due to breeze, air temperature , movement by people and so on.

The curtains will adjust their own temperature and level of water absorbed up and down depending on the same factors, i.e. air temp, amount of heat applied to them by the sun and the amount of heat the material is able to absorb and retain and the all this is complicated by the time which curtains retain that heat and for how long.

So we have material curtains that absorb and release both heat and moisture all the time depending on the room conditions.

Thus we have curtains that essentially become mini glass houses or incubators, especially in the folds or where the sun has a high heat impact upon the material. A further compounding factor is the closeness of the material bulk to the wall. If as is mostly the case curtains are bunched against the wall, especially after being heated by the sun in the mornings, then the incubator effect is heightened. The same applies to late afternoon except that at that time the sun is intense and hotter than morning so the curtains retain more heat for longer. Midday sun is at a higher angle and so doesn’t affect the curtains so much.

The type of material also has an effect. Many older materials were natural and tended to allow more passage of air. Many of the modern materials are almost impervious to air and in the case of say taffeta’s and blackout material there is no “breathing” at all.

The use of Blackout material on many curtains has both the effect of no “breathing and it also retains an enormous amount of heat where the sun shines upon it. Put taffeta and blackout together and it’s a given that curtains and or more likely the linings will go moldy, even in rooms where there is standard ventilation.

How does the warmth affect the curtains?

As with all incubators and glass houses the warmth creates an ideal condition for bacteria to grow. Longer periods of warmth, especially where the humidity is high,(such as in curtain folds and even in the material fibres themselves encourage the growth of bacteria. Bacteria thrive in colonies and have an enormous rate of duplication, and will grow colonies that live and hibernate and create their spores that continue to reinfect and grow the new colonies.

This growth happens in the warm, mostly summer and on curtains is mostly seen as an orangey or reddish spots that look like this.

Live mildew Colonies on Curtain Linning.

These colonies flourish and die and then regrow from the spores left in the curtains. This may happen for several years before they become easily seen.

By the time most people notice the mildew the bacteria have died, due to the cooler winter temperature and left their spores which have turned black. That’s what we see. They are hibernating mould bacteria which are responsible for the black stain seen on curtains and linings.

It would be rare for this to contaminate the curtains in a short period of time to a degree where it is very visible and usually we could expect two to three years for this to be readily visible and often longer. The black often becomes visible after winter when the cold has had its effect on the bacteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria or here: :http://www.answers.com/topic/bacteria

Where does all this moisture come from?

The air always contains moisture to a greater or lesser extent. In New Zealand, area’s such as Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Waikato and others have high levels of humidity on any given day.

Inside of a house as well as the air humidity level there are other sources of humidity.

People. People exhale moisture when breathing. Closing bedroom doors at night means that that moisture remains inside the bedroom unless there is ventilation to change the air.

Ensuites which are now very popular contribute to the moisture in a house, are as do showers and cooking, especially boiling pots of water.

Unflued Gas Heaters run on LPG are big contributors to the humidity in room because the gas burns to produce CO2 and water. aka Moisture.

Now we want to have these facilities as well as warm houses so we have created an ideal world for bacteria.

Some of the issues can be easily mitigated.

Use of dehumidifiers is best because they remove the moisture from the air.

Allowing for better room ventilation with cool air. Especially of the windows can be left just open to facilitate cool air inflow.

By changing the curtain rail brackets from the standard 65mm to 80 or 100mm so that the curtains are further from the walls and the windows. This allows for more air circulation around the curtains and thus less higher temperatures.

Having separate blackout curtains on a different rail to the other curtains.

Install a ShowerDome. http://www.showerdome.co.nz/how-it-works

In our experience roof ventilation systems and double glazing do not prevent this mildew problem.

Curtain Clean now has agents in the Waikato

They can come to your place and take down your curtains, forward then to Curtain Clean for cleaning and restoring. Once this has been done they will return your curtains to their place at the window.

Curtains gone mouldy, water stains or just dusty and tired?

Check out our website and see the difference we can make for you.

No Need to spend large amounts of money on new curtains.

Call now 0800 5790501  or email us to arrange to have them cleaned or you can drop them into any of these agents.

Hamilton and Surrounds.

Matamata and Surrounds.

Cambridge and Te Awamutu.

Curtain Cleaners:  Cambridge, Coromandel,  Hamilton,  Lower Hutt, Masterton, Matamata,Mt. Maunganui,   Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga,Tokoroa , Upper Hutt,  Wellington, Whakatane.