On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:07:20 -0500, aemeijers
wrote:

On 2/2/2011 6:34 AM, mm wrote:

Whatever happened to DIY dry cleaning.?

Someone mentioned they have a box that looks like Dryel but is generic
so one can do dry cleaning in his own home.

Good idea?

I never knew or don't remember why do it yourself dry cleaning
machines at laundromats disappeared.

Two words- toxic waste. Any commercial use of those chemicals is called
a 'point source', IIRC, and there are all sorts of permitting and
inspection hoops to jump through. Same reason that almost all ma'n'pa
dry cleaners, the few that are left, have outsourced their cleaning to
giant industrial plants. And in a city where the person who owns the
store almost never owns the building, the landlord won't rent to anyone
who uses chemicals, at least not without a lot of extra money changing
hands. The possible downside for the property owner is just way too steep.

Makes sense. This is pretty much what also happened to a friend of
mine with the metal plating business he owned.