Do you risk washing them yourself or do you send them to the dry cleaners?
I washed the curtains in the spare room last week. They weren't expensive and I just if they go pear shaped I'll buy new but they came out fine. So do I risk the dining room curtains eh?
I think it very much depends on the fabric, my lounge one's are a sort of damask and as there are three full length pairs dry cleaning would probably cost the same as buying new one's so decided to try washing them. I did one pair on a delicate 40 degree wash, I pressed them straight from the washing machine and rehung them so they could finish drying in situ and the weight would drop any creases out and they were absolutely fine so did the other two pairs.
Last Edit: Feb 9, 2015 22:17:08 GMT by Diamond Diva
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We had a neighbour who was a curtain maker and he told me that you shouldn't ever need to wash or dry clean curtains unless they are in a kitchen or there are smokers in the house. His advice was to vacuum them in situ once a year
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Curtains Feb 12, 2015 15:12:40 GMTvia mobileLiv likes this
When we had our new windows put in before Christmas we obviously had to take down all the curtains. I did actually wash some then, but only because we both used to smoke and that was the first time they had ever been ever been taken down! Now that we have both stopped I shan't be doing it again!
We had a neighbour who was a curtain maker and he told me that you shouldn't ever need to wash or dry clean curtains unless they are in a kitchen or there are smokers in the house. His advice was to vacuum them in situ once a year
That's good to read because I don't think I could manage my full length curtains any more. I've new linings for one pair that I'm going to have to try and add over the existing somehow in situ.