A dry rating is the appropriate designation for a luminaire in a location that rarely, if ever, is at risk of dampness or moisture. This means they are typically used indoors in above-ground rooms, such as kitchens, dining rooms, hallways, offices, conference rooms, and reception areas. Most indoor lights are rated for dry locations, but bathrooms present unique conditions.
There are two additional ratings based on the likely level of moisture exposure: “UL Listed for Damp” and “UL Dry Rated”. Dry-rated lights are moisture resistance lighting and may fail when installed in wet environments. They are designed to withstand moist environments, specifically those where condensation may build up in and around the fixture. Dry-rated lights may be used in most interior locations as long as there is no moisture accumulation.
Damp-rated lights are used in places that have some contact with moisture, but not in areas with constant or direct exposure to water. They are typically used in areas that are normally or periodically subject to condensation of moisture in, on, or adjacent to electrical fixtures.
In summary, a dry rating is the right one for a luminaire in a location that rarely, if ever, is at risk of dampness or moisture. Most indoor lights are rated for dry locations, but bathrooms present unique conditions. Damp-rated lights are designed to withstand moisture exposure in different ways, and they can be used in most interior locations as long as there is no moisture accumulation.
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The organic solvent he’s talking about is called TCE. There’s another one I think called PERC. They’re the leading cause for contaminated soil and groundwater across the country. It’s carcinogenic. Practice used to be to take filters outside and hose them down with water to clean them. This became runoff into the local soil and waterways.
One of my first jobs in the early 2000’s was as a front-end clerk at a dry cleaner’s. I prepared orders in the computer, tagged the individual pieces, and sent them to those who worked the machines. When the clothes returned, I had to manually reassemble orders by searching through all the tags. The crinkled up, deformed, pain in the behind little tags. Then, bagged it up and put it on the front conveyer to wait for pick-up. OMG, I am SO jealous of there being a handheld scanner now!
I run a dry cleaners.. solvent is highly toxic, first rule when dry cleaning is you do not leave that door open as the emissions of solvent can cause dizziness, sickness and in extreme cases death. The fact he smelt them AS soon as they came out shows me he probably doesn’t dry clean himself but managers the store which is fine but smelling it after etc is just so toxic. The machine completely soaks the clothes in solvent which then heats up and the remaining solvent is vaporised. The dry cleaning machine is really smart and if business insider wants a look at dry cleaning further I’m sure Timpson or Johnson Cleaners would be happy to give an in-depth view on how it all operators and how it’s run!☺️
This was one of the things I used to wonder about when I was a curious kid from the third world (there were a lot of “dry cleaning only” labeled salvage clothes). Forgot about it when I grew up and perusal a movie just now triggered that old curiosity. Finding out nothing about it being dry was anti-climactic though.
I bought this dry cleaning at home kit, where you put you spray the problem areas of your garment with a solution. Then you put the garment in a bag with wet dry sheet like cloth and put it the dryer. I thought this was how clothes was dry cleaned, since it is technically dry. Since I had the at home version, I hardly get stuff dry cleaned at the Laundry mat. Very interesting to learn it’s placed in a solution and maybe it’s good to get it done professionally!
Hello I saw your article. I didn’t know about your website before today. I am currently in Dubai and I have been working in laundry here for almost 10 years and have worked in different laundries. But now I want to move from here. Do you need someone in another country like a washing mother or a washing mother?
I remember taking my rotc uniform for dry cleaning and I swear they never washed it. I took into the same place twice and it looked exactly the same. The sweat stains still there and smelled like my perfume still. I felt like I wasted my money. Decided to just take the chance and wash it in my own laundry.
Watching articles like this shows the huge gap between Industries in developed countries to developing countries. Here in Nigeria, DRYCLEANING business are mostly small or medium scale, mostly manually handled and not this mechanized, the cost of these equipments over here is a huge barrier. This disparity in scaling/ industrializing tells on the economy as well. We have a long way to go.
I am Professional Wet Cleaner, meaning using water. Dry cleaning is dirty! It collects all kinds of filthy stains including feces, urine, skins flakes and all kinds of stains dissolved in the solvents that circulates through the closed loop system. New Solvents are added as needed and reclaims the dirty solvents through a process called “distillation” but the solvents in the filter systems, tanks and piping systems cannot be distilled. This process is like adding clean solvents to dirty ones. The solvents then circulates through unclean filter which trapped all stains described earlier. You get the picture. Especially hydrocarbon solvent machines have tendency to have moldy type of smell due to its chemical weight, lighter than water. It’s funny how the guy smells his garments and says Fresh… lol. Given a choice, use professional Wet Cleaner, the methods are, get fresh water in every cycle, no filter system to trap craps, no water ever gets reused, no 30+ feet of dirty contaminated piping except drain pipe and water hose toed to water inlet. This method is Really Green and clean! Yes I can Stick my nose and CAN say Fresh! If you really want your garments to be treated like the Royal…ask for Private Wet Cleaning, your garments are cleaned separate from everyone else’s. So ask you cleaner if they are Professional Wet Cleaner that use water base,, not organic, not green, as what is the chemical name of the solvents(not trade name) if not water then likely it’s chemical. So many fake chemicals that try to be green,,,, only water is green.
I swear whenever I’ve tried dry cleaning really smelly vintage items in the past they just come back smelling like chemicals with the musty dirty smell still mixed in! Starting thinking some places don’t bother even dry cleaning the items but just hung them up and steamed them before passing them back !
I knew a cat from Des Moines, I heard he had a cleaning plant. Anyway the dude was always clinking with coin; feeling lucky and he always made a little money. Somewhere along the way I lost my taste for fruit perusal the dry cleaner do it (the thing with the bandit). Oh yeah, some of this took place at Circus Circus – something about those cowgirls with big balloons. Someone wrote a song about this but I don’t care to find out because I hate jazz.
LOL “some people might call it organic” You know what a hydrocarbon is? Check your gas tank and your zippo lighters. In fact, they use (or at least used to use) a form of naphthalene which is zippo lighter fluid almost precisely. I know this because I use it in my job to clean guitar fretboards, etc.
Why is someone who knows nothing about chemistry explaining dry cleaning? I am pretty sure dry cleaning solvent is perchloroethylene, which is not a hydrocarbon. If I’m wrong and it is a hydrocarbon, which hydrocarbon is it and how do they keep it from exploding? All that agitation would create an explosive air-vapor mix. And it’s definitely not called organic because it’s from the earth–that was the most illiterate part. By the way it is a REALLY bad idea to put just-dry-cleaned clothes up to your face and inhale like that.
I burst out laughing when he presses his face into it and says, “Smells delicious!” Imagine if he just started shoving a suit jacket into his mouth! x’D What’s the solvent smell like, a bucket of fried chicken? Tiramisu? Fried rice? And don’t press your face into my clothes, sir, you have your inhalants by entire factory-sized portions at work. “Delicious” …not the word I was expecting.
This YT algorithm is starting to freak me out, I was just thinking a couple of days ago, “I gotta look up how dry cleaning works” you know, shower thoughts as they are. I always imagined all the clothes being dumped in a big vat, then some cartoonesque assembly line. But really I always wondered how they keep the items organized!
“Some people call it organic because it comes from the Earth” Salesguy. LUL I can just imagine the prep talk with the engineers. “Organic. Oh like food… That’s hot these days, I’ll use that thanks.” Salesguy. “No. It basically means that it has a carbon atom that the whole molecule anchors…” Engineer. “Organic, like food.” Salesguy mumbles to himself while furiously writing on a notepad. LUL at 0:56, this guy definately lingers by the gas cap. I think this guy would have made a great painter too. 😉
I was Prince Charles’ dry cleaner. Been in the business 22 years, my father 25 years before that. ‘Non aqueous’ cleaning doesn’t have the same ring? Most dry cleaners (90+%) use a solvent called perchloroethylene, or perc for short. Wool, cashmere, viscose, linen, silk, composite materials, acrylic… some materials just don’t like being washed in water. Stain removal is an art, finishing is an art. Don’t start me on wedding dresses!
Everyone who gets their clothes dry cleaned should learn about the dangerous chemicals used at these plants such as Perc, hydrocarbon, k4, etc. Especially if you are sending your kids clothes to get cleaned. The only sustainable, non toxic, and environmentally safe way of dry cleaning is if the dry cleaner is using a 100% silicone D5 solvent also known as GreenEarth cleaning. Please stop supporting these toxic dry cleaning plants and look for plants that are using only GreenEarth solvent for dry cleaning
Hydrocarbons arent called organic because they come from the earth, they are called organic because they contain carbon atoms and in the 19th century most of the then-known carbon compounds were considered to have originated in living organisms, not everything containing carbon is organic i.e carbon dioxide but most things are, especially hydrocarbons
it’s an organic solvent because of organic chemistry, the study of compounds with carbon atoms in them. the hydrocarbon solvent perchloroethylene is commonly used, it’s a known carcinogen, a lot of dry cleaners have kidney cancer because of this occupational exposure. so it’s not a good idea to smell it after coming out of the washer. suits can instead be washed with coal water and wool soap/shampoo by hand or placed in a mesh and washed using your machines gentler cycle. the drying process will be more difficult, americans are used to the energy wasting heated dryers, wool suits should be tumble dried in a gentle cycle, and then immediately steamed or dried in front of an electric fan. to reform the shape especially around the shoulders. it also doesn’t help that cheap clothing uses glued padding for the chest and shoulders instead of sewn batting fabric. the glue is dissolved in water and the suit is deformed if the suit isn’t dried quickly with moving air. i live in asia where most of our dryers are tumble dryers and everyone has an electric fan. i wash my own suits and i am able to keep their shape, it’s more effort but without the risk of developing cancer from dry cleaning solutions.