Reserve Stain Treatment Solution
$35
Toronto's Garment Atelier · Yonge and Lawrence
The Quiet Craft of Garment Care
Toronto's first wet cleaning specialist: pure water and biodegradable detergent instead of PERC, for over sixty years at Yonge and Lawrence.
- Family run for over sixty years
- Toronto's first wet cleaning specialist
- Miele certified equipment
- Valet routes Tuesday and Friday
- 100 percent toxic free, no PERC
The pressing room · 3309 Yonge Street
No. 01
Every garment, given its due
Six disciplines, practised daily at the same corner of Yonge Street for three generations.
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Wet Cleaning
Pure water and biodegradable detergent in Miele certified machines, for the garments other cleaners refuse.
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Wash and Fold
Everyday laundry, weighed at the counter and returned folded.
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Executive Shirt Service
Washed, hand finished on the press, loose buttons replaced without asking. In by 10, ready next day.
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Alterations and Repairs
Hems, zippers, and small repairs, measured in the shop and sewn in house.
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Household and Linens
Duvets and drapery cleaned flat in water, table linens starched and pressed.
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Wedding Gowns and Delicates
Gown cleaning and boxed preservation, handled in the shop from start to finish.
The work itself
Four movements, repeated all day.
No. 02
Your wardrobe, called for and returned
Two routes a week, Tuesday and Friday. A personalized garment bag, and nothing else to think about.
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Join your route
Call or book a pickup and we place your address on the Tuesday or the Friday run.
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Set out your bag
Leave your garments in your personalized Glenforest bag by the door on route morning.
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Pressed and returned
Your bag comes home cleaned and pressed on your next route day.
No. 03
We clean with water, not solvents
Conventional dry cleaning leans on PERC, a solvent that lingers in fabric long after the press. We took a different path decades ago and became Toronto's first wet cleaning specialist.
Every garment is cleaned in pure water with biodegradable detergent, on Miele certified equipment programmed for that fabric. Wool keeps its loft, silk its hand. Your clothes come home brighter, with no solvent residue or odour.
One hundred percent toxic free. No harsh chemicals. No PERC. Sixty years of proof.
Three generations of the Zachos family, one corner of Yonge Street.
Glenforest Cleaners has been family run for over sixty years at Yonge and Lawrence, caring for the wardrobes of the neighbourhood from the same shop at 3309 Yonge Street. The methods have been refined; the standard has never moved.
The Glenforest Reserve
The tools of the trade, for home. The same spotting kit we use at the counter, for care between visits.
Soft Spotting Brush
$35
Reserve Starter Kit
$110
Spotting Bone
$25
Available at the counter, 3309 Yonge Street.
The neighbourhood, on the record
They rescued a silk blouse that two other cleaners refused to touch.
The Tuesday valet is the easiest habit I have ever kept.