5 Star Drycleaners

Dry cleaning has been a shrinking trade for thirty years and Chilliwack has lost shops like everywhere else, but the ones still open here are not doing quite the same job as their equivalents in an office city. Suits are a small part of it. A place with this much outdoor work, farm work and trades work generates a steady volume of heavy workwear, coveralls and industrial laundry, and that is the business that fills the days between weddings and funerals. Many operators also handle alterations, which is worth knowing when the problem is a bad fit rather than a stain, and several run pickup arrangements out into the rural neighbourhoods.

Most of the category is found in the Sardis plazas and the downtown, so this address sits a little south of where cleaners usually cluster. The listing carries no phone number and no website, which leaves the counter as the place details get settled. What a shop will and will not accept varies more than people expect, particularly with leather, suede, down, wedding dresses and anything oversized, and turnaround differs between a shop that cleans on site and one that sends work out. Both are quick questions in person and impossible to answer from a directory page.