Image Cleaners

Looking past the high prices, the service is really good. Always friendly and accommodating. I had to get some pieces cleaned last minute and they were very accommodating. Easy parking.

these guys are very inconsistent supposed to get 30% off dry cleaning left off on Sunday yet it never gets done automatically they continuously lose buttons and never get the spots out that you point out The owners could cat less I have given them second chances tie after time only since they are local DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE under any circumstances they suck and never make good DISHONEST

I rarely write reviews about non-​restaurant entities. I’ve been going to these guys for 3 years now and have given them chance after chance. They are by far, one of the worst dry cleaners I’ve been to. The service is average but the price is outrageous. The price also changes and they never tell you. The 30% off Sunday is a joke because you calculate from the below, it’s still much much more than most other places. Additionally, I’ve gone there for alternations. This past week, is my last time I am giving my money to them. To shorten a dress, they charge $ 35 and to hem a pair of shorts for men, it was $ 20 each. Completely ridiculous. Here are the prices that I know of. Feel free to compare with other places. I now go to a nice Korean lady and her prices are in () as a comparison. Note these are prices for women’s items mostly. Prices may have been increased since May 2013, which is when I got these numbers.
Pants — $ 5.85
Blouse — $ 5.85 ($ 3.75)
Skirt — $ 5.85
Dress — $ 11.85 ($ 8.08)
Sweater — $ 6.50 ($ 3.75)
Coat — $ 25.00 ($ 4.56)
Jeans — $ 6.85
Scarf — $ 6.85
Wedding Gown — $ 200
Pillow — $ 25.00
Sleeping bag — $ 25.00
Top — $ 5.00
Shorts — $ 5.50
Cardigan — $ 6.85

Walked in, showed 3 men’s dress shirts, asked price… told me $ 2 per shirt for laundry. I said cool… come back, bill is $ 9. Same girl says shirts are $ 2.50 each, plus 1 is stretched so it’s $ 4. Shirts look great, but I HATE LIARS! Will never go back, based on principal. Screw this place, $ 2 laundry almost everywhere else.

brought a pencil skirt there to get hemmed, they told me it’s going to be $ 16 for the alteration, at pick up it turned into $ 24. Sorry they won’t get my business again.

As a connoisseur of fine dry cleaning and more importantly, clean clothes on my bod, it gives me great pleasure in strongly recommending the greatest dry cleaner in West LA: Image Cleaners (IC).
Here’s the deal: IC is inconveniently located on one of the busier parts of Wilshire Blvd which disables one from zipping in and out… not to mention their parking lot is no bigger than my walk-​in closet… wait, I have a big walk-​in closet… ummm, OK… let’s just say that it’s an «efficient» parking lot that often times is inefficient due to the clowns that cross-​park and/​or double park their sled.
However, the extra 120 seconds it takes you to get inside of their shop are quickly forgotten by their cleaning prowess. Yes, Dave C, they often include a chemical scent with your clothes (free of charge I might add) but that’s only if you have them DRY CLEANED. And I must note that whatever that smell is… it’s GOOD… I liken it to a tire shop or «NCS» aka New Car Smell. You know it’s stomping brain cells once it hits your noggin, but man does it throw a party for your olfactory on the way up to your hard drive.
Anyway, if you have a sensitive snout then have your clothes laundered because the DRY CLEANING CHEMICAL isn’t used when they LAUNDER their clothes… Dave C… uh-​hum.
So if you’re knot down with getting a DC contact high, then get your threads laundered and you’re GTG as the only thing you’ll be able to smell is the lame cologne or perfume you rock… but 99% of the time they get that funk out, too.
And this is exactly why I give IC 2TU (Two Thumbs Up): your clothes get clean… period. I have been going to IC for over 5 years now and I don’t even live in the area any more… yup, in fact I’m not even close to them but I make the weekly effort to jam over there because I can always depend on my clothes coming back spotless and most importantly, the thing that gets oft-​overlooked with dry cleaners: they steam press my shirts and pants to perfection… no out of place folds or creases… sharp lines every time… which does have something to do with the quality of the fabric, too… but there’s talent involved with pressing clothes and IC knows how to get their full court press on.
OK, but what about price? Understood… dry cleaning is a luxury nowadays but it all comes down to opportunity cost: we all live in the most visual city in the world, so how you look at any given moment is crucial. That said, I’d rather pay an extra handful of dollars to ensure I look sharp at all times, and that’s the price one must pay in order to successfully navigate LA… or simply put, get action. Sure I’ve gone to the high end ones where they remove buttons and all that crap, but why spend $ 25 to get a shirt cleaned when it’s already clean but just wrinkled?
The BL is that IC isn’t cheap, but it’s also not out of line with similar cleaners in their general vertical and vicinity. Additionally, if you take some time to get to know the owners, then you can negotiate a discount, but just don’t be a dick about it… be kewl and tactful and you’ll be amazed at what can happen.
In fact, that’s a lesson for all of you to learn for any negotiation or situation… just chillax, smile, and flex your guns… works for me, anyway.
All said, the only downside to IC is the freeq fest next door to it… some hole in the wall pharmacy/​medical supply/​count Dracula store where only the strong survive… or dare enter for that matter.
But IC is now ran by a very nice Korean couple and putting their professional and courteous demeanor aside, they don’t stand for any BS, (they’re Korean so you know they’ve got a gauge somewhere behind the Spot Shot), so the kooks next door are kept in check.
And this my fellow Unilocalers is why IC stands above the rest and earns one of my highest ratings: 4 stars and a fresh block of polar ice… because when you’re rocking clean clothes from IC, you be stone cold chillin’.
Enjoi…

I live in the neighborhood so close was my first criteria when they opened 10+ years ago when I first stared with them. The staff is nice, they do a good job and if you do enough business with them you can just negociate a percentage off of everything, open a charge account with them that gets paid with your credit card and skip all that cupon drama. Over the last decade or so the staff has changed but always been nice, they do a good job and I have never had any chemical smell issues that Dave C was talking about !? It’s just a good local cleaners. Not five star but a nice reliable four star.

I really wanted to love Image Cleaners because they’re within walking distance of my office. The people who work there are really nice and they blast Andrea Bocelli inside, which I think is kind of fun. Because the people were so nice and I was selfishly thinking about how nice it would be if I didn’t have to drive to pick up my dry cleaning, I decided to give them a shot.
Unfortunately, niceness only goes so far because Image Cleaners is plagued by that horrible heavy chemical smell that some dry cleaners always seem to leave with your clothes as a souvenir. The smell was so heavy that even after a plane flight and some significant airing out and environmentally unfriendly hangage in a hot running shower, my pants still smelled like Aqua Net, or something like that. It felt like the chemicals were so heavy that it took away that nice, artificial, light clean feel that I usually get after picking up a pair of pants from the cleaner.
Really nice people, your clothes just end up smelling a bit like a science lab.