Curtain Cleaning in Singapore

Curtains are priced by weight: standard curtains from $15 per kg, blackout and day curtains from $20 per kg, with a $60 minimum per order. Roman blinds are priced by area, from $2.50 per square foot, with the same $60 minimum. Take-down and rehanging at home is a separate service, from $200 per trip or 25% of the cleaning total for larger homes, whichever is higher.

Yes, as a booked visit: from $200 per trip, or 25% of the cleaning total for larger homes, whichever is higher. Hooks and hardware are handled as part of the job, so there is nothing for you to dismantle or refit. We do this for HDB flats, condominiums and landed homes, and roman blinds can be taken down and refitted too. Prefer to do it yourself? Drop the curtains off with the hooks removed and you pay only for the cleaning.

They can be steamed or surface-cleaned in place, and several companies in Singapore offer exactly that. It freshens the panel rather than washing it: with the curtain hanging there is no rinse and no spin, so the dust, grit and cooking oil that loosen settle back into the weave. Rosabelle washes curtains in-house at its Queenstown facility instead, and will take them down and rehang them for you from $200 per visit, so the ladder and the hooks are not your problem.

No. We clean curtains off the rail at our Queenstown facility, and it is a deliberate choice rather than a comment on steam. Steam relaxes creases and kills dust mites where it touches them. What it cannot do is carry anything out of the panel: a hanging curtain gets no rinse and no spin, so the dust, grit, cooking oil and mite droppings stay in the cloth. Wetting a lined curtain in a room at over 80 per cent humidity can also leave the musty smell you were cleaning it to get rid of. We take the panels down, wash them at a temperature chosen for the fabric and backing, dry them under control, finish them by hand and rehang them.

Wash them, and treat steaming the way you would treat dry shampoo: useful between washes, not a replacement for one. Steam kills dust mites on contact and published work suggests it reduces the allergen they leave behind, but nothing about steam removes the dust, grit and cooking oil a curtain has been collecting, because there is no rinse and no spin on the rail. Washing carries that load away in the water. In Singapore, where windows open onto road dust and relative humidity averages over 80 per cent, we suggest a proper wash every six to twelve months.

If you are dropping curtains off for washing only, please take the hooks out first. Hooks left in have to be removed by hand, one by one before cleaning, and refitted afterwards, so if we do that for you a handling fee applies. If we take the curtains down for you, hooks are handled as part of that service.

Blackout backing is a coating on the fabric, so it needs lower temperatures and gentler processing than plain fabric, which is why we price and process it separately. A lining already weakened by sun, dust and humidity can delaminate in the wash, and that weakness is not always visible beforehand. We assess the panel first and tell you what we see. Washing regularly, before the coating is spent, is the best way to get full life from it.

They can, and it comes down to fibre and temperature. Cotton and linen shrink most, and a hot home wash can take enough length off a floor-length panel that it hangs short permanently. Polyester and most blends are stable. We wash curtains at a temperature chosen for the fabric and backing and dry them under control rather than in domestic heat, which is what keeps the drop the same. A panel that has not been cleaned in years can still move slightly the first time.

Some, yes: an unlined cotton or polyester day curtain will usually survive a cold, gentle cycle if it fits the drum with room to move. The risks are length and lining. Cotton and linen can shrink enough that a floor-length panel no longer reaches the floor, blackout and rubberised backings crack or peel in domestic heat, and header tape puckers if it is not dried flat. A wet lined curtain is also much heavier than it looks, which is how both machines and curtains get damaged. If the panel is lined, blackout, sheer or floor-length, have it done professionally.

Because the smell is moisture and mould in the backing, not soiling on the face. In Singapore, where relative humidity averages over 80 per cent, a lined or blackout panel holds damp against the window, and air-conditioned rooms that stay closed dry slowly. The front of the curtain can look fine while the lining behind it has gone musty. Steaming it usually makes that worse, since it adds more water. A full wash with controlled drying is what clears it.

Our guidance is about every six months if your windows are usually open, and about once a year if they stay mostly closed and the room is not especially dusty. Open windows bring in road dust, and dust is what house dust mites feed on. Relative humidity in Singapore averages over 80 per cent, and both mite numbers and mould growth rise with humidity, so blackout backings and shaded corners are worth not stretching too far. These are recommendations, not a rule: how dusty your road is, whether you run air conditioning and whether anyone in the home reacts to dust all change the answer.

In-house at our own Queenstown facility. Curtains are taken down, cleaned, dried and finished by hand there by our own staff and returned to you, rather than sent out to another laundry.

Five working days and upwards. We confirm a timeline when the curtains are collected, since it depends on the number of panels and the fabric.

Five working days and upwards, counted from the day we take them down. We confirm the timeline before collection, since it depends on how many panels there are and what they are made of. If privacy matters in a particular room, say so when you book and we will plan the take-down and rehanging around it.

Yes, all three. Curtains can be dropped off at either outlet with the hooks removed, or collected through our islandwide pickup and delivery. If you want the panels taken down and rehung, that visit is available for HDB flats, condominiums and landed homes alike, from $200 per trip or 25% of the cleaning total for larger homes, whichever is higher.

Yes. Roman blinds are priced by area, from $2.50 per square foot, with a $60 minimum, and they can be included in a take-down and rehanging visit like curtains. Blinds are assessed first, because the batten pockets, cords and any coating on the fabric decide how the piece is cleaned.