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Back to School Dry Cleaning Tips

 

 

 

The time of back to school stress, anxiety, excitement, and mayhem is fast approaching and parents are frantically shopping for school supplies and clothing. Fortunately, with a few helpful tips, parents can prepare themselves for unexpected clothing related emergencies and salvage children’s clothing with the help of alterations and stain treatments. With Model Cleaners on your side with tailoring and dry cleaning services, back to school can be easier on everyone as you save time and money.

 

Stains

When children return to school, they’re susceptible to all sorts of new stains they don’t usually deal with during the summer. Knowing how to treat and remove stains including glue, markers, pen, and pencil helps parents preserve and protect their children’s clothing so they at least last one whole season. To treat pen stains, soaking items in a stain treatment overnight may help. For pencil marks, sometimes an eraser will get them out prior to soaking, but parents need to make sure they use a clean eraser to avoid making the stain worse. School related stains can be especially challenging to deal with and if you’re unsure how to proceed, bring the item to Model Cleaners for professional stain removal and cleaning.

Alterations

Children grow quickly and this often means hand-me-downs for multiple-children families. Even without passed down clothing from older siblings, children may be able to wear their clothing through a growth spurt with the help of professional alterations. Alterations are a good alternative to buying a new wardrobe every few months and can even be used to make hand-me-downs fit their new owners better. Tailors can alter pants that children have outgrown into shorts for summer and modify long sleeve shirts that no longer reach the wrist into short sleeve shirts.

Ripped or torn clothing

It’s frustrating when children come home with rips in their new clothing from something that happened at school. Fortunately, tailoring and alterations can repair tears and rips in some items and extend their life instead of condemning them to the trash or rag pile.

Set-in stains

Sometimes when you store school clothing from one year to the next, you can miss stains on items as you’re packing them away. Finding these stains months later doesn’t mean they’re untreatable even though they’ve had time to incorporate in the clothing fibers. Dry cleaning is the best option for removing old, set-in stains as cleaning experts have the knowledge to analyze the stain and effectively remove it if possible. Make sure you point out any stains when dropping off your children’s dry cleaning items.

Back to school can be less stressful as far as clothing is concerned when you know you have the expertise of Model Cleaners to clean and bring out the best in your clothing.

 

Pick-Up & Delivery Options

With our Pick-Up & Delivery options, Model Cleaners can help with your long to do list this school year. To learn more about our Pick-Up & Delivery, click here!

 

 

$54,000 dollars of Free Coat Cleaning given away by Model Cleaners to help area Kids stay warm!

Kids helping other needy Kids stay warm this winter! That is what caring for one another is all about!!

Charleroi Area Students stock the Model Coat bins with light worn Coats for kids in need! Over 750 Coats were donated by Charleroi Area School District!
Charleroi Area Middle School Students help Model Cleaners General Manager, Gregg Anders in stocking the Model Cleaners  Coat bins with  Coats for Kids before the cold winter! Over 700 Coats were donated by Charleroi Area School District!

Over 4,000 area  kids and families in need of a warm coat will stay warm this winter thanks to the efforts of area students and Model Cleaners.

Pleasant Valley Elementary School students filling up the Model Coat donation bins in an effort to help other kids stay warm this winter
Kids helping Kids:Pleasant Valley Elementary School students filling up the Model Coat donation bins in an effort to help other kids stay warm this winter. Peters Township School District collected over 1,000 Coats for Kids in just 8 weeks!

With the help of Upper St Clair, Seton LaSalle, Charleroi, Peters Twp and Belle Vernon school districts, Model Cleaners collected, cleaned and delivered over 4,000 coats since October 9th! At Model we have given away $54,000 dollars of Free Cleaning in an effort to help kids stay warm this winter!

Upper St Clair Student Council was presented a $1,000 check by Model Cleaners President Dan LaCarte for finishing in 1st place in the Coats for Kids Competition!
2016 Coats For Kids Champions: Upper St Clair Student Council was presented a $1,000 check by Model Cleaners President Dan LaCarte for finishing in 1st place in the Coats for Kids Competition!

The final Coats 4 Kids standings are below! Upper St Clair pulled out a tight win over Seton LaSalle in the 1st Annual Model Cleaners Coats for Kids Competition!  Thank you to all the students, parents and administrators for all your help the past 8 weeks!

We will be back in 2017 with more schools and hopefully more coats donated, cleaned  and delivered for area Kids in need!

Coats 4 Kids Standings Enrollment Coats Collected Coats/Student
Upper St Clair (9-12) 1394 958 0.687
Seton LaSalle (9-12) 519 337 0.649
Charleroi (K-12) 1532 723 0.472
Peters Twp (K-12) 4300 1176 0.273
Belle Vernon (K-12) 2522 382 0.151

Area Students Stuff Model Cleaners Trucks Today with 858 Coats Donated for Kids in Need!

A NEW daily  Coat Donation record has been set while a NEW Leader has Emerged in the Model Cleaners “Coats for Kids” Contest with only one more week remaining!!

On Friday December 2nd, various Model Cleaners trucks set out to pickup all of the donated Coats from Participating School districts. Our Model trucks were so over-flowed with coats, that we had no room in our trucks to pickup the coats donated from the Peters Township School district…. But do not worry Peters Township we will be there 1st thing on Monday to pickup your school’s donated coats!

Model Cleaners picked up a total of 858 COATS FOR KIDS TODAY bringing our  TOTAL COAT FOR KIDS DONATIONS to 2,444 COATS.

2,444 Coats have been donated by area students then picked up, cleaned and donated by Model Cleaners in just 8 weeks!

858 Coats packed our Model trucks today! Thank you Area School Districts!
858 Coats packed our Model trucks today! Thank you Area School Districts!
Since October 10th these Model Bins have seen over 2,400 Coats donated for Kids in need this winter!
Since October 10th these Model Bins have seen over 2,400 Coats donated for Kids in need this winter!

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Model Cleaners and Local Students Continue to Lead “Coats for Kids” Coat Drive

During this time of Thanksgiving, we certainly have a lot to be thankful for. With the efforts of local students and Model Cleaners we have now Collected and Cleaned 1,586 Coats for Kids before the Holiday season. Your continued caring is the reason why Kids will stay warmer this winter!

Last week brought in 374 additional "Coats For Kids" to be cleaned for Free by Model Cleaners and delivered to local Salvation Army offices
Last week brought in 374 additional “Coats For Kids”  in partipating School districts.

Charleroi and Upper St Clair keep going back and forth for the leader in the Inagural Model Cleaners “Coats for Kids” Competition. Charleroi (k-12) (0.251) is holding a slim lead over Upper St Clair (9-12) (0.247). Also rising in the standings is Peters Twp (k-12) who has collected 330 coats as a district the past two weeks.  The winning school with the highest Coat per Student enrolled ratio will receive $1,000 dollars from Model Cleaners while the 2nd place school receiving $500 dollars.

 

Coats 4 Kids Standings Enrollment Coats Collected Coats/Student
Charleroi (K-12) 1532 384 0.251
Upper St Clair (9-12) 1394 345 0.247
Seton LaSalle (9-12) 519 69 0.133
Peters Twp (K-12) 4300 540 0.126
Belle Vernon (K-12) 2522 248 0.098

If you are not apart of these school districts you can still donate a coat at any one of our 12 local Model Cleaners locations. The last day for Coat collections is Friday December 9th, 2016. This Coat drive is for Coats only of any size. 

1,212 Coats Donated by Local School Districts and Cleaned for FREE by Model Cleaners before the Holidays Approach!

Model Cleaners Coats for Kids Contest so far has been a “Heartwarming Success”  and after 5 weeks we have made 1,212 Kids warmer this winter! As morning and evening temperatures get into the 20’s a Warm Coat for a Kids makes such a huge difference going to the Bus Stop and coming home from School!

Model Team Member Roman Dipiazza collected 131 Coats from Peters Twp School District.
Model Team Member Roman Dipiazza collected 137 Coats from Peters Twp School District.

Last week Participating School Districts set a new weekly high by donating 337 Coats to Area Children that are in need. Great job to Peters Township School district for donating a new weekly high from an individual school of 137 Coats!

 

Over 300 Clean Coats are ready to Be Delivered by Model Cleaners to the Local Salvation Army Office
Over 300 Clean Coats are ready to Be Delivered by Model Cleaners to the Local Salvation Army Office.

A new leader has emerged in the Model Cleaners Coats for Kids Contest with just 3 weeks left in competition. Upper St Clair High School (9-12) holds a slight lead over Charleroi School District (K-12). Any school can move into 1st place with a strong effort.

Coats 4 Kids Standings Enrollment Coats Collected Coats/Student
Upper St Clair (9-12) 1394 287 0.206
Charleroi (K-12) 1532 279 0.182
Seton LaSalle (9-12) 519 54 0.104
Belle Vernon (K-12) 2522 245 0.097
Peters Twp (K-12) 4300 347 0.081
Total Program 10267 1212 0.118

The Last Coat pickup at Area Schools will be on Friday December 9th, 2016. The 1st place school with the highest Coats donated per Student ratio will receive a $1,000 check from Model Cleaners. Help your school and donate a Coat today!

 

875 Coats Donated by Local School Districts and Cleaned for Free by Model Cleaners before Winter Time!

We are at the halfway point with Model Cleaners Coats for Kids Contest and  after 4 weeks we have made 875 Kids warmer this winter! Just One coat Donated and Cleaned by Model Cleaners can make such a difference in a child’s life this winter! Be thankful for what we have and pay it forward to someone who is in need!

Charleroi (K-12) holds a slight lead over Upper St Clair (9-12) with just 4 weeks left in competition. Any school can move into 1st place with a strong effort. The Last Coat pickup at area Schools will be on Friday December 9th, 2016.

Coats getting ready to be donated to your local Salvation Army centers in an effort to Keep Kids warm this winter!
After your Coats are donated, Coats are then cleaned at Model Cleaners for FREE, then all Coats the following week get delivered by Model Cleaners to your local Salvation Army center for distribution to area Kids that are in need for a Warm Coat before Winter Time! #YouCare #Modelcares #EqualsWarmerKids

After 4 weeks please see the updated Coats For Kids Standings:

Coats 4 Kids Standings Enrollment Coats Collected Coats/Student
Charleroi (K-12) 1532 226 0.148
Upper St Clair (9-12) 1394 200 0.143
Belle Vernon (K-12) 2522 200 0.079
Seton LaSalle (9-12) 519 39 0.075
Peters Twp (K-12) 4300 210 0.049
Total Program 10267 875 0.085

Model Cleaners Coats For Kids School District Week 1 Standings

The results for week 1 are as follows for the five participating School Districts involved in the Model Cleaners Coats for Kids Contest.

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13 Coats were donated at Charleroi Area School District on Friday October 14th

 

Overall 94 coats were collected on Friday October 14th,2016. Belle Vernon Area School District has taken an early lead with a 0.015 Coats donated Per Student ratio, with Peters Twp just trailing in 2nd place at 0.010 Coats donated per Student ratio. There are still 8 weeks left, please spread the word to family and friends about this worthy cause to keep kids warm this winter!!

Coats 4 Kids Standings Enrollment Coats Collected Coats/Student
Belle Vernon (K-12) 2522 39 0.015
Peters Twp (K-12) 4300 42 0.010
Charleroi (K-12) 1532 13 0.008
Seton LaSalle (9-12) 519 0 0.000
Upper St Clair (9-12) 1394 0 0.000
If you are not apart of these school districts you can still donate to the Coats for Kids program by visiting any one of our Twelve local Model Cleaners locations with your Coat donation.

Model Cleaners Launches “Coats for Kids” Coat Drive with Local School Districts

Click here to watch our “Coats for Kids” interview on Pittsburgh Today Live

In the spirit of Model Cleaners local roots and passion for community outreach, Model Cleaners will launch the 1st Annual Model Cleaners “Coats for Kids” coat drive in conjunction with local schools and the Salvation Army beginning October 10th through December 9th, 2016. Each participating school will be provided with a labeled Model Cleaners plastic bin as the collection point for the coats. All of the coats donated by the student body (either child or adult size) will be cleaned by Model Cleaners then donated to the local Salvation Army offices. The coat drive provided by Model will help local families in need stay warm before the winter time.

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Help Model Cleaners “Share the Warmth” for the 27th consecutive year

For the past 27 years Model Cleaners, and through the help of our loyal customers and our Model team members- Model has donated over 150,000 coats to the Local Pittsburgh Salvation Army in an effort to help keep needy adults and children warm over the cold Pittsburgh winter months. Check the Western Pa Salvation Army organization here!

Please help with this tradition this winter!  From November 23rd thru December 14th– all of our 13 Model Cleaners locations have coat donation bins set up in our customer pickup and drop off areas.

By donating a coat you can save big with the cleaning of your coat, here’s how–

When you donate a coat at any one of our Model locations we will clean one of “your” coats at 40% off.  (Valid with incoming coats only. Valid at all Model locations. Discount is not valid with leather and suede coats or with any kind of alteration. Offer expires December 14th, 2015)

Come “Share the Warmth” with Model Cleaners and help keep everyone “Warm” this winter!!

2nd Annual Food Drive set to kick off at Model Cleaners

The Holiday season is around the corner and while many of us our enjoying the holiday season with our families there any many families and children that are less fortunate that will go hungry during the holiday season. Please help Model Cleaners with our 2nd Annual  Food Drive this fall. Please visit anyone of our 13 Model locations and help the Hungry!

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