General care
• Do not bleach any white shirt with an embroidered or
imprinted school logo. Try spot cleaning only or try using a bleach pen to
make sure bleach only goes where you need it.
• The use of a color safe bleach on plain white shirts will avoid the
possible yellowing of the polyester threads in the material. Tide with
Bleach works well on shirts without insignia.
• Sweaters should be washed inside out without using a fabric softener.
• Gymwear, sweatshirts and sweatpants WILL SHRINK. Using a warm wash cycle
and tumble drying on low will keep the shrinkage to a minimum.
• If you must tumble dry skirts, kilts or pleated jumpers please remove them
from the dryer before they are completely dry, press the pleats back in with
a warm iron and hang them up to air dry.
Stains
• Blood stains should be pre-soaked in cold water and
pre-treated with detergent before laundering. Hot water will set the stain
and make it difficult to remove. Try pouring milk on a fresh blood stain as
a pre-treatment - odd, but it works.
• Tomato sauce - Dampen the stain with hot water and pre-treat with
detergent then wash in the hottest water that is safe for the fabric.
• Ink stains can be removed with rubbing alcohol before washing if the ink
uses an alcohol based solvent. Regular ball point pens fit into this
category.
• Soiled shirt collars are best pre-treated with shampoo before laundering.
• An old, clean toothbrush is your best friend when dealing with stains.
When pretreating a stain gently work in the detergent with the toothbrush,
do not scrub at the stain. The idea is to work the detergent into the stain
so the detergent can get rid of the stain for you.
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