Wet Cleaning
Our signature
Pure water and biodegradable detergents in place of solvents, safe for nearly everything a dry cleaner would touch.
Clean that leaves nothing behind.
Toronto’s first wet cleaning specialist, family run at Yonge and Lawrence for over sixty years. Water, air and patience in place of harsh chemistry: one hundred percent toxic-free, and never a drop of PERC.
Family run for over 60 years
Toronto’s first wet cleaning specialist
Miele certified
Tuesday and Friday valet
100 percent toxic-free
Wet cleaning, the Glenforest way.
The forest in our name is a promise about what we put down the drain: nothing you would not pour on a garden.
Conventional dry cleaning bathes clothes in perchloroethylene, a solvent so harsh that regulators have spent decades phasing it out. It cleans, but it lingers in the fibres and in the water table under the city.
Wet cleaning does the same work with filtered water, biodegradable detergents and precise Miele machines, each cycle tuned to the garment on the ticket. It is gentler on wool, silk and skin, and honest to the nose. Your clothes come back soft and bright, and they smell of nothing at all.
We were the first shop in Toronto to commit to it fully. Sixty years in, we have never had a reason to look back.
Family run for over sixty years, on the same corner of Yonge and Lawrence.
The Zachos family has kept this shop long enough to press wedding suits for the sons of the men they first pressed them for. Becoming Toronto’s first wet cleaning specialist was never a marketing decision. It was simply better for the clothes, and for the street outside the door. Miele certification put a name to the way the work was already done.
“May your worst problem be a stain on your clothes.”
Straight from plants.
Detergents, wash sheets and spot treatments built on leaves, never solvents.
Our impact
The ledger we keep, counted since the day we chose water over solvents.
60
years on this corner, and counting
0
litres of PERC, ever
1st
wet cleaning specialist in Toronto
What we care for.
Every service is toxic-free and finished by hand.
Wash and Fold
Everyday laundry washed, dried and folded into neat, shelf-ready squares.
Executive Shirt Service
Collars and cuffs pressed crisp, buttons checked, returned on hangers or boxed.
Alterations and Repairs
Hems, zippers, re-seams and quiet rescues, measured and sewn on site.
Household and Linens
Duvets, drapery and table linens refreshed without harsh chemistry.
Wedding Gowns and Delicates
Hand-finished care and boxed preservation for the pieces that cannot be replaced.
The valet, on your street twice a week.
Tuesday and Friday routes through the neighbourhood, the same way for decades.
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Hang your bag
We give you a personalized Glenforest garment bag. Fill it and set it out on the morning of your route day.
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We collect
Tuesday and Friday, our valet runs the routes. Your bag rides back with us to Yonge and Lawrence.
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Pressed and returned
Cleaned toxic-free and finished by hand, everything comes home on your next route day, pressed and ready to hang.
Two routes, Tuesday and Friday: the same streets, for sixty years.
Glenforest Reserve.
Small tools from our counter, for the stains that happen between visits.
Reserve Stain Treatment Solution
The gentle formula our spotters reach for first, bottled for home.
$35
Soft Spotting Brush
Natural bristle, soft enough to trust on silk.
$35
Reserve Starter Kit
Solution, brush and bone together, with a card of our care notes.
$110
Spotting Bone
The old tool that still works best: lifts a spill before it sets.
$25
Sold at the counter, 3309 Yonge St.
From the neighbourhood.
My husband’s shirts have gone here for fifteen years. They come back crisp, buttoned on the hanger, and nothing ever smells of chemicals.
They rescued a silk blouse another cleaner told me to throw away. Careful, honest people who clearly love the work.
The Tuesday valet is the easiest habit I own. Bag out in the morning, everything back pressed on my next route day.