Christmas is a holiday we take to heart. Maybe you’ve spilled some rib fat, or maybe you got a little too eager when you got the almond in the porridge that you might as well spill the whole porridge in your lap. It’s fun anyway, but it’s extra boring when the suit or dress gets dirty. Many of these outfits are not recommended to be put in the washing machine, and you would prefer to clean the clothes to avoid smelling like ribs the next time the clothes are worn. Then you can go to a dry cleaner. It could cost you your shirt. According to the industry manager at NRV, the dry cleaners must have such high prices for cleaning in order for them to manage financially. Photo: Simon Elias Bogen / news Do you clean your fancy clothes at a dry cleaner? Yes🧼 No, never😬 Occasionally😊 Show result NOK 815 for suit cleaning If you are going to clean a full suit package – i.e. jacket, trousers, shirt and tie – it will cost you NOK 815 at the dry cleaners. In comparison, a brand new suit with shirt at Dressmann costs NOK 1,800 on offer on 22 December. Almost half the price there, that is. At H & M, a suit with shirt costs NOK 1,450. – Wrong comparison – People often compare it to what it costs to buy new clothes. The problem is that the cleaners have Norwegian salaries, says Hilde Løkås, head of dry cleaning at the Norwegian Cleaning and Laundry Association (NRV). Løkås does not think the Renserien have any more money than before. Photo: Private She says the people who sew the clothes are often in China or other countries and have lower wages. In addition, other factors come into play: – The salary has risen. The dry cleaners use a lot of electricity to carry out the job, and the price increase in general in society has been large, says Løkås. High costs at the dry cleaners The dry cleaners have branches in Rogaland and Bergen. You will not find many dry cleaners in Norway, and there is rarely any special price competition among the existing ones. – There is a great focus in society today on environmental friendliness. Cleaning is part of the recycling circle. You take care of the clothes, says general manager at Renseriet, Tone Østbø. Tone Østbø is general manager of Renseriet. She says the dry cleaners cannot survive without the price they have today. Photo: Erik Waage / news Tight economy Østbø says they cannot offer lower prices. – The dry cleaning industry works with large costs from the cost of cleaning fluid and equipment, electricity and wages, she says. They simply do not have the finances to adjust prices down. – In 2019, for example, a suit (jacket and trousers) cost NOK 445. This year it costs NOK 545. So in four years it has only increased by NOK 100, says Østbø in Renseriet. It was very busy at Renseriet in Haugesund before Christmas. Many people make use of the cleaning service. Photo: Simon Elias Bogen / news Here are the prices for cleaning a full suit with shirt and tie at other dry cleaners: ESP Dry Cleaning (Trondheim): NOK 890 Renseri.no (Oslo) NOK 668 Fru Hang (Oslo): NOK 795 Orion Dry Cleaning ( Porsgrunn): NOK 735 Røyken cleaner (Asker): NOK 870 Astamr (Bergen): NOK 815 – Eliminate VAT on cleaner Party leader in the Green Party (MDG), Arild Hermstad, fears that many will buy a new suit instead of cleaning, on because of the price. – We cheer for the cleaning series. People must use them more, says Hermstad. Party leader in MDG, Arild Hermstad. He believes the government must take action to get more people to clean clothes instead of buying new ones. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB But then he believes that the government must do something. For example, removing the VAT on cleaning services. – It can help to make the market more competitive and that people take care of their clothes for longer. We will become a more circular economy that is about taking care of our things. Then this could be a good measure, says the party leader. – Not appropriate to remove State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Lars Vangen (Sp), says it is not appropriate to cut VAT on cleaning. – Value added tax is important to pay for welfare that everyone in society uses, such as schools and hospitals. State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Lars Vangen (Sp). He says the government will continue to prioritize good welfare services for people in the annual budgets going forward. Most goods and services have a value added tax of 25 percent. There are some exceptions, and Vangen says these exceptions make the whole system more complicated and expensive to administer. – Then it is better to use excise duties or financial transfers to take care of the environment. Addressing circular clothing use Climate and Environment Minister Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (Ap) says the government will fix a more circular use of clothing in the future. – Work on new collection and producer responsibility schemes for textiles is already well under way, he says. Climate and Environment Minister Andreas Bjelland (Ap). He says measures to get people to clean clothes instead of buying new ones may be relevant. But then they have to hit precisely and support the goal of more reuse, he says. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB The climate and environment minister also says that other measures to get people to clean their clothes may be relevant. – I hope and believe that most people choose to clean and take care of their clothes rather than constantly throw them away and buy new ones, says Bjelland Eriksen. New trip to the dry cleaners It would be best if you didn’t spill at Christmas and didn’t have to go to the dry cleaners in the New Year. The undersigned went to the dry cleaners the week before Christmas Eve and got a sparkling clean suit for Christmas. During the Christmas dinner, ribs and sauerkraut were spilled on both ties, suits and shirts. Then there will probably be a trip to a dry cleaner.
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Cleaning a suit is half as expensive as a new suit – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
