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<\/figure>\nWhat comes home from boarding kennels<\/h2>\n
Three things arrive in the fabric. Hair, both from your own animal and from the building. Fine dust and grit from runs and yards. And a smell, which is oil from coats and skin sitting in the weave.<\/p>\n
None of it is difficult to remove. It just needs handling in the right order, because trying to wash all three out at once is what leaves you with a blanket that still sheds a week later.<\/p>\n
Hair comes off dry. Dust comes out with water volume. The smell goes with the oil, which needs a warm wash and a proper rinse.<\/p>\n
Do those in that order and one cycle usually finishes the job. Do them in the wrong order and you will be picking hair out of a wet blanket, which is a miserable way to spend an evening.<\/p>\n
Choose the blanket before you choose the bag<\/h2>\n
Send something you can wash easily and would not mind losing. A big quilted bed with a zip and a foam core is a poor traveller, and a plain fleece or a worn cotton blanket is a much better one.<\/p>\n
Fleece is the usual answer. It is light, it dries fast, it takes a wash without complaint, and it keeps its loft through many cycles.<\/p>\n
Avoid anything with a rubber backing or a bonded waterproof layer. Those crack and flake with repeated washing, and the pieces end up in the drum rather than on the blanket.<\/p>\n
Send two if you can, so one is always clean and at home. Having a spare turns the whole thing into a rotation rather than a scramble the day before a stay.<\/p>\n
Mark it somewhere discreet with a permanent pen. A plain grey fleece looks exactly like every other plain grey fleece, and marked ones come home more reliably.<\/p>\n
Wash it before it goes as well as after<\/h2>\n
A blanket that goes away already carrying a month of hair and oil comes back worse than one that went clean. You are adding a week of something new to a base that was already loaded.<\/p>\n
A clean blanket also holds the smell of home more clearly, which is the whole reason for sending one in the first place. Oily build up dulls that quickly.<\/p>\n
Wash it a few days ahead rather than the night before. A thick fleece that goes into a bag slightly damp will smell stale by the time it is unpacked.<\/p>\n
Then fold it and put it straight in the bag. Left on a sofa for two days it gathers a fresh coat of hair before it has even left the house.<\/p>\n
Send it in a bag you can wash too. Most people use the same holdall every time a stay at boarding kennels comes round, and that bag quietly collects hair and dust in its seams year after year without anybody thinking to empty it out.<\/p>\n
Hair is the main job and it comes off dry<\/h2>\n
Take the blanket outside and shake it hard, then go over it with a rubber glove or a stiff brush. A damp rubber glove dragged across fleece lifts hair into rolls you can lift straight off.<\/p>\n
Do this before it goes anywhere near water. Wet hair binds to fabric and to itself, and once it has been through a cycle it is woven in rather than sitting on top.<\/p>\n
If there is a lot of it, a short tumble on a no heat or air setting will move a surprising amount into the lint filter. Clean the filter afterwards and do it again if the first pass was heavy.<\/p>\n
Whatever you remove dry is hair that never ends up in a drum seal or on the next load of clothes. That is the real reason to bother with this step.<\/p>\n
Washing a big blanket properly<\/h2>\n
Space is what this load needs. A thick blanket folded into a small drum does not move, and a blanket that does not move does not get washed, it just gets wet.<\/p>\n
Use a warm cycle with a modest detergent dose and add a rinse if you can. Fleece holds detergent in the pile and a residue is what makes it feel slightly tacky and attract hair faster afterwards.<\/p>\n
Skip fabric softener entirely. It coats fleece fibres, flattens the pile and leaves the blanket feeling smooth rather than soft. It also makes the fabric more prone to holding static and hair.<\/p>\n
Wash it on its own or with other pet bedding. It will shed, and anything soft sharing the drum will collect what it sheds.<\/p>\n
If the smell is stubborn after a cycle, wash it again rather than reaching for something stronger. A second ordinary wash with plenty of water beats one aggressive one, and it is kinder to the fabric.<\/p>\n
Drying it and keeping it ready<\/h2>\n
Fleece dries fast and does not want much heat. A low setting keeps the pile lofty, while a hot cycle melts the fibre tips and leaves the surface flat and slick.<\/p>\n
Take it out as soon as it is dry. A thick blanket left warm and folded in a drum picks up a stale smell within hours, and that undoes the whole point of the wash.<\/p>\n
Store it folded in a cupboard rather than on a bed or a chair. It stays hair free that way and it is ready to go at short notice.<\/p>\n
Give it a look over occasionally. Chewed corners, pulled seams and thin patches all mean it is coming to the end of its life, and a blanket that is shedding filling is no use to anybody.<\/p>\n
Common questions about boarding kennels<\/h2>\n
Should a blanket be washed as soon as it comes back from boarding kennels?<\/p>\n
Yes, and it is worth doing before it goes back on a bed or a sofa. Shake it out and brush it first, then wash it warm with plenty of water. Left in a bag for a week it will smell far worse than it did on the day it came home.<\/p>\n
What is the best fabric to send?<\/p>\n
Plain fleece for most situations, or an old cotton blanket if your animal prefers something flatter. Both wash easily, dry quickly and survive many cycles without falling apart.<\/p>\n
Why does the blanket still shed hair after washing?<\/p>\n
Because the hair was wet when it went in. Wet hair works into the weave and a cycle cannot lift it back out, so the dry brushing step before the wash is the one that actually solves it.<\/p>\n
Can a bed with a foam insert be washed?<\/p>\n
The cover usually can, if it unzips. The foam core rarely washes well and takes days to dry through, which is why a simple blanket is the better thing to send away.<\/p>\n
The Mission part<\/h2>\n
Deep South Texas is hot and humid for most of the year, and humid air is what turns a bagged blanket sour. Anything folded away damp here will smell within a day rather than within a week.<\/p>\n
The dust is the other half of it. Dry stretches put a fine grit into everything that sits outside, and it works down into a fleece pile where shaking alone does not reach it.<\/p>\n
That combination wants water volume rather than heat. A big load with room to move carries the grit away, while a packed drum recirculates it back into the fabric.<\/p>\n
Winters are mild enough that none of this really pauses. The laundry a blanket needs in January is much the same as the laundry it needs in July, which makes a simple rotation of two blankets worth setting up.<\/p>\n
Where a big blanket gets washed<\/h2>\n
Thick bedding needs a drum it can actually move in, which is the one thing a small home machine cannot give it.<\/p>\n
The machines at our self-service laundry on West Griffin Parkway<\/a> hold the water volume a thick blanket needs to rinse clean, in drums wide enough for it to open out and tumble rather than sit in a wet roll.<\/p>\n Our machines and the store are cleaned daily.<\/p>\n Nou wash-dry-fold service<\/a> covers the everyday laundry.<\/p>\n For general guidance, The American Cleaning Institute publishes a fabric care guide<\/a> that is a useful cross-check.<\/p>\n The short version is that a blanket coming home from boarding kennels carries three things and each wants different handling. Hair comes off dry, so shake it outside and work it over with a rubber glove or a stiff brush before any water touches it. Dust comes out with water volume, so give the load a big drum and room to move. The smell is oil sitting in the weave, so use a warm cycle, a modest detergent dose and an extra rinse, and skip softener because it flattens fleece and makes it hold hair. Dry on low, take it out promptly, and keep a second blanket in rotation.<\/p>\n WaveMAX Mission<\/a> is at 301 W Griffin Pkwy, easy to reach from Mission and the surrounding area. If you have a load that will not fit at home, call us at 956-271-4735<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boarding kennels usually ask you to send something from home, and that something comes back different from the way it left. A blanket that smelled of your house goes away for a week and returns full of hair, dust and the smell of somewhere else. Getting it back to normal is straightforward if you know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12210,"parent":10429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"phone_number":"","address":"","times":"","business_hours":"","google_maps_url":"","wdf_price":"","wdf_minimum":"","wdf_standard_price":"","wdf_24_hour_rush_price":"","wdf_includes_hangers":"","wdf_detergent_included":"","wdf_color_sorting":"","wdf_same_day_available":"","wdf_promo_bar_text":"","google_rating":"","facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","google_review_url":"","promo_bar":"","owner_name":"","neighborhood":"","contact_email":"","app_url":"","ss_price_min":"","ss_price_max":"","ss_dryer_price":"","ss_dryer_minutes":"","num_washers":"","num_dryers":"","pickup_delivery_url":"","pickup_delivery_price":"","testimonial_1_name":"","testimonial_1_text":"","testimonial_1_rating":"","testimonial_2_name":"","testimonial_2_text":"","testimonial_2_rating":"","testimonial_3_name":"","testimonial_3_text":"","testimonial_3_rating":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","last_wash_time":"","promo_bar_text":"","postal_code":"","location_video_url":"","google_place_id":"","latitude":"","longitude":"","pickup_delivery_available":false,"is_open":false,"ghl_api_token":"","ghl_location_id":"","ghl_webhook_url":"","_et_pb_page_layout":"","local_video_url":"","news_video_html":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14705","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14706,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14705\/revisions\/14706"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavemaxlaundry.com\/ht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The short version<\/h2>\n