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General Boards => General Discussion => Topic started by: Keith Moffett on May 22, 2015, 03:58:55 AM
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So, we cleaned the drape from the old ('98) coach. Simply unhook and dry clean, reverse the plan and voila done, right? This time ('02) there was a pair of wires through the drape and no dry cleaner would touch it. What to do?
Well, you can't simply pull the wire through because it is so fine it would likely break. The solution we found was to cut slots every 12 inches in the backing where the wire is sewn in. We then made a 12" rod stiff enough to work through without too much pull on the wire. Tape the end connector on the wire to the end of the rod and pass it through a bit at a time. After dry cleaning we reversed the process and then tested the wire for continuity and reinstalled the drape.
Once every 10 years is enough but it looks great!
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So, it came through the dry cleaning with no issues? I took our into our local dry cleaner and he said because of the backing was a rubberized fabric it would not fare well with the heat of the dry cleaning process. If we did a standard wet wash, then the cardboard in the header would loose some of its strength and it would loose the pleats. I ended up just having them spot clean it.
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Bill, we had no problems at all on either set of drapes. Rubberized canvass backing held up fine, no crumbeling like on some carpet backing.