Are you allowed to dye stuff at the launderette cos my sofa needs an urgent revamp.................?

[WillyWooooaaaahnka]

I would love to revamp my very faded sofa covers but simply can't afford the cost of a professional dye service (they're huge and I just couldn't fit into my domestic machine).

I've always thought/assumed that you wouldn't be allowed to use dyes in launderette machines but have just seen it done on one of these generic home styling programmes and it's given me the glimmer of hope that I could retrieve my sofa at a price that won't break the bank. Fwiw, I'm only planning on reinstating the original colour.

Thanks!

No idea. Could you not do it in the bath?

Possibly (though the main cover is enormous) but I wondered if the dye might not stain the bath itself? I'm also not convinced that I'd be able to rinse the excess dye out properly, whereas a blooming big machine on spin cycle would help

If you get one of the wash and dye things it might work - and you would have to pay for an extra cycle to clean the machine after

What about going to a dry cleaners, or a laundrette that does a shirt service, and asking if they offer a dyeing service?

our local launderette / dry cleaners is open from 8am but not manned til 9.30,

so if you went there at 8am there would be no one to stop you and i guess you would have time to put the machine on again to clean it out, and just leave it running empty before the staff arrived, so they wouldnt even know!

I would ask first. I woiuldn't be best pleased if I used the machine after you and all the dye hadn't been cleaned out.

but surely as long as you are sure to put the machine on again empty then the dye would be washed out...

it always has been when i have died stuff in my domestic machine.... though maybe that answers my own question?... yes guess it would be worth checking that an industrial machine would wash out all the dye like a doemstic machine does.

(I dyed loads of stuff in my brand new washing machine... it was all fine and all the dye washed out
i was dyeing stuff extra dark navy blue and used 4 sachets of dark blue dye per wash to get the colour i wanted so i think i was very brave )