Curtain Cleaning in Singapore

It depends on your home. If your windows are usually open, aim for around every six months, as dust settles far faster, and left long enough it begins to harbour dust mites that affect indoor air quality and, for anyone sensitive to dust, their breathing. If windows stay mostly closed and the room isn't especially dusty, once a year is usually enough. Bear in mind that even when it isn't obvious, accumulated dust still affects the air you breathe, and air-conditioned rooms and humid corners also grow mould on blackout backings, so it's best not to stretch it too far.

Wash them, and treat steaming the way you'd treat dry shampoo: useful between washes, no substitute for one. Steam penetrates the fibre and kills dust mites on contact, but killing them isn't the same as removing them. A dead mite and the faecal pellets around it still trigger allergies, and they stay in the weave along with the dust, grit, and cooking oil, because a hanging curtain gets no rinse and no spin to carry anything out. Washing takes that load away in the water. In Singapore, where windows open onto road dust and humidity sits near 80%, most homes need a proper wash every six to twelve months.

No. We clean curtains off the rail at our Queenstown facility, and it's a deliberate choice. Steam relaxes creases and kills dust mites where it touches them, but it doesn't remove them, the faecal pellets that carry the allergen, or the years of dust and cooking oil in the weave, because a hanging panel gets no rinse and no spin. Wetting a lined curtain in an 80% humidity room also risks the musty smell you were cleaning it to get rid of. We take the panels down, wash them at a temperature chosen for the backing, dry them under control, press them, and rehang them.

They can be steamed or surface-cleaned in place, and several companies in Singapore offer exactly that. It freshens the fabric rather than cleaning it: with the panel hanging there is no rinse and no spin, so the soil that loosens settles back into the weave. Rosabelle Launderette washes curtains 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 aren't your problem.

Because the smell is moisture and mould in the backing, not soiling on the face. In Singapore's humidity 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.

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 isn't 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.

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 hasn't been cleaned in years can still move slightly the first time.

Yes, we offer take-down and rehanging as a booked concierge 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's nothing for you to dismantle or refit. Prefer to do it yourself? Drop the curtains off with the hooks removed and you'll only pay for the cleaning.

If you're 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 after, 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.)

Usually, when handled correctly: blackout backings need lower temperatures and gentler processing than regular fabric, which is exactly why we price and process them separately. That said, a lining already weakened by years of sun, dust, and humidity can delaminate in the wash, and it isn't always visible beforehand. Washing regularly, before the coating is spent, is the best way to get full life from them.

Curtains are cleaned from $15/kg, with roman blinds from $2.50 per square foot. If you would like them taken down and rehung, that concierge service is from $200 per trip, or 25% of the cleaning total for larger homes, whichever is higher, with hooks and hardware handled for you. Prefer to dismantle them yourself? Drop them off with the hooks removed and you pay only for the cleaning.

Five working days and upwards. We'll confirm a timeline when the curtains are collected, since it depends on the volume 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're made of. If privacy matters in a particular room, say so when you book and we'll plan the take-down and rehanging around it.