Laundry Express is back with just a few more tips and tricks that will make your laundry efforts easy and less time consuming! Be sure to check out our other easy laundry tips and tricks, that most aren’t aware of. Below are our final secrets! Be sure to share them with friends and family!

Boost Your Detergent

Sometimes our laundry detergent doesn’t work as well as we hoped it would. Instead of going to purchase a different brand, try enhancing this one.

Adding baking soda to a washing machine’s rinse cycle to help your clothes become more thoroughly rinsed. They will resist the stain buildup that can sometimes come with hard water. The baking soda helps the detergent work better and acts as a deodorizer for clothing with a bit of odor. They’ll also feel softer! Cleaner clothes, softer fabric and no extra money spent. This trick is one of our favorites!

 Roll Up a Lint Remover

According to Good Housekeeping, “If you have an cat or dog that sheds, you probably have a lint roller or two lying around the house. If you’re not used to lint or hairs on your clothes — or if you’ve had to roll one too many shirts and are out of sheets — you may be desperate for a solution, but don’t start tearing off pieces of scotch tape yet. Using three inch slivers of tape at a time will make you run through an entire roll before your pants are a solid black again; there’s a more efficient way to get the job done.

Make your own lint remover by rolling up an old magazine or thin mail-order catalog and wrapping wide adhesive tape around it so the sticky side faces out. Pass it lightly over clothing or upholstery fabric to remove lint, bits of thread and stray hairs. You’ll cover a bigger surface area.”

• We will clean all pet laundry including dog, cat, and animal items.
• We will pick up or drop off at your home or office for laundry and dry cleaning.
• Wash, Dry, & Fold services for corporate workers
• We offer corporate discounts!
• Our Stain and Fabric Specialists can get rid of most all stains
• Affordable Quality Dry Cleaning

We offer our laundry services in Raleigh NC on the following items:

• Bedspreads
• Comforters
• Rugs
• Table Cloths

Contact our Raleigh Laundromat for more information about our expert laundry and stain experts! We hope to help you with your laundry soon!

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Laundry tips and tricks are always needed . There’s always something that aquires a stain, odd smell, or problem, without you even realizing it.  What you might not know, is that there are  solutions to problems like the seat of dark jeans dulling or loosing your lint roller.

There are many tips and tricks to use when trying to do laundry and remove stains.  Below, you’ll find great ways to eliminate laundry issues without any trouble at all!

Save Your Dyed Whites

Have you washed your new red shirt with a load of whites or light colors? If so, we’ve all done it! Don’t worry. We can fix this problem!

Before putting any of the newly colored pink clothing in the dryer:

Soak the damp clothes in a solution of baking soda and warm water with 1/2 cup salt and 1/2 cup detergent added to it. Use your favorite detergent to wash as usual.  The combo of the soaking mixture and detergent will turn your whites white again!

Drying Out Shoe Odors

Ridding shoes of dampness from foot perspiration can help prevent odor and lengthen the life of the shoes. Whenever you’ve take off a pair of shoes for the day, slip a few small pieces of white chalk into each shoe to help absorb the moisture.

For an easy, non-messy way to move the chalk pieces in and out of your shoes, consider wrapping them in small scraps of cheesecloth and tying the tiny bundles with twist ties.

Another way to remove moisture and odor from shoes is to crumple newspaper up and place it inside your shoes when they aren’t being worn. For best results, use fresh newspaper and leave them overnight!

Remove Smoke Odors

Smoke can cling to clothing, even if you aren’t the smoker. To remove the smoke odor, soak the clothing in hot water, in the bathtub. Add two cups of white vinegar. Soak the clothing in the vinegar and water for at least 10 minutes. Then, wring out the garments and hang over the shower rod. Allow the hot water to steam the vinegar soaked clothing to remove the smell of smoke, without ruining the fabric. Whether you’re a smoker or not, you can probably agree that one aggravating aspect of tobacco is the odor that clings to everything. The smell of smoke will come right out of most fabrics when you wash them as normal, but fabrics that lock in odors and are sensitive to washing, like wool, are a bit trickier.

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For more laundry tips and tricks, be sure to check back with Laundry Express soon! In the meantime, visit our Laundomat to launder any large items like comforters, sheets, tablecloths and more! Our state of the art washer and dryers will clean your items without damage. Contact us for more information!

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Bright white clothing, towels, and other fabric materials are best when they stick to their original color of stark white. Sadly, they don’t always stay crisp summer-white. Most of the time, they end up graying and dull, making a direct B-line for the trash. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to brighten those whites; a way to restore the beautiful, stark, bright white color, without any fuss? Thankfully there’s a way! Laundry Express has the secret that works every time!

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Below, you’ll find a few ways to brighten whites, as well as, keep whites, white- permanently, without the risk of them graying to a dull, unwanted color!

• Baking soda
• Vinegar
• Borax
• Lemon juice
• Hydrogen peroxide

These household products naturally whiten. To whiten clothing or other materials, add ½ cup of any of the  cleaners listed above, to each wash cycle to keep clothes, towels, tablecloths, and other things,  bone white.

If you’d like to make sure the clothing won’t turn, you can mix in ½ cup vinegar and ½ cup borax to your white loads. Both ingredients will help brighten whites. The vinegar will soften clothes, too!

To restore whites, presoak dingy whites in a mixture of one gallon hot water and ½ cup washing soda, a powdered mineral soap that helps brighten clothes. Then launder your clothes as usual.

For clothes that have been dull and grayed for quite a while, try a different method.

• Fill a pot with water
• Add several lemon slices into the water
• Bring the water to a boil.
• Fill a tub with the mixture and soak white linens, socks and non-delicate items until the water cools
• Wash clothes as usual.
• Hang clothes to dry in the sun (another natural whitener that doesn’t cost a thing!)

Bright whites are important! No one wants to wear less than white, clothes! We hope you’ve enjoyed this secret way to brighten your whites at home, that we’ve shared, and use it to your advantage! If you have stains that need removed, and don’t feel like dealing with it, on you own, consider bring the soiled clothing to our Raleigh Laundromat,  Laundry Express! We will launder your clothing for you!

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