A hard water map, identifying the location of hard and soft water areas across England and Wales. To confirm your water hardness please visit your local water authority website.

Losing control? Are your towels fifty shades of grey? Detergents with inadequate sequestering character can cause greying discolouration. We can help. Are you curious?

Need support in the technical area to help tackle dirty sports kits stained with grass, blood, mud and sweat? Send that ground-in grass, mud and blood for an early bath!

Black marks are caused by contact with metal salts or linen abuse. They are hard to remove. We’ve designed a brilliant system to recover damaged hotel & restaurant work so it can be put back into circulation.

We can help with specialist processes and products to remove stray dyes deposited on to garments or table linen – usually caused by things like party poppers or coloured paper napkins.

Towels got a better tan than you? We’re here to help with advice and processes to help remove spa oils & fake tan on towelling.

We can help with iron staining on whites, which can be associated with rust in steam lines (on a Monday morning), rust in pipework or rust in bore hole water.

We can help with removing set stains on workwear, caused by washing with inappropriate detergent or using an improper process!

We can help with removing mildew on hotel and restaurant linen, caused by the presence of proteinaceous soiling.

Overloading or under loading can affect the efficiency of your wash programme. From panties to king size duvet covers, here’s the approximate weights of articles to be washed.

Download our Spotter Chart. A comprehensive stain removal guide that helps identify the best professional Spotter to remove common stains.

Here’s our guide to help get your towels in shape. That’s how washing is done!

Here’s our handy guide to stain identification using the FOCAL acronym.

Starch Wars? We put together this guide to help you choose the Ideal Starch for the job.

Here’s our handy guide to correct chemical storage to make sure everything stays working the way it should, whatever the weather.

The laundry experts here at Ideal have put together this helpful guide to help resolve the most common starching problems.

A short guide to Laundry Starching by John Hickman & Dr. Mike Kalli.