Geary Cleaners

As of this writing she charges $ 1.75/shirt for laundering & pressing a men’s dress shirt (as long as you give her 2 or more shirts; for 1 shirt it’s $ 2.25). 5 other cleaners I called here in Outer Richmond charge $ 2.25 each and several were rude. The owner here is sweet and provides good customer service. The first time I got shirts pressed I did not ask for starch and several of them came back less than perfect (i.e. maybe a slight crease here or there on the sleeve of 1 or 2 shirts out of 5). After switching to asking for medium starch I have been pleased with the results (pressed as expected; no wrinkles/​creases) hence the 5 star review.

Great service and reasonable prices, but this business is closed on Sunday. See flyer on door for hours

This place is awful. Took her two tries to get my pants hemmed right and by the end they’ ruined. You should really consider closing your business… you’re terrible at it.

Went there for the first time to get my clothes washed and dried. I was extremely disappointed in the result. She overcharged me because I had included a blanket. Apparently it had to be dry cleaned, even though I didn’t ask for that. Also, I later found that several of my shirts had shrunk a few inches. I do not recommend you go here.

First off, let me say that you need at least two people to run this kind of business. Why? Because if you are doing both alterations and dry cleaning, and not to mention writing instructions from customers all by yourself, you are bound to make a mistake. The lady that works there, I think she also owns the place, is a hardworking woman and I respect that. However, she messed up my last three orders, the pants were either short or long. My advise to fellow Unilocalers is as follows: make sure that you are being heard correctly and double check the actual note where she wrote the order. Literally, read what she wrote and make sure it’s what you said.
P.S She irons jeans.

Kind of sad, considering it’s a local business and they should be hard-​working and trustworthy to keep their clients coming back. I was getting married (very modestly, no fancy dresses or tuxedos, just needed to do some VERY minor alterations to some very inexpensive garments) and me and my fiancée brought this woman four (4) simple items to fix. One simple hemming job, one button on my leather jacket, one skirt to put the new band in, and one skirt to run a stitch on the side hem (it ripped). As a person who knows how to sew, I can tell you it’s a 40 minute job AT MOST, all of it-​I would have done this while watching TV and making dinner if I only could buy a sewing machine.
The lady told us it would take five days to fix our stuff-​OK, we were fine with that. Than she started calculating sh*t and came up with over 60 dollars for all of it… in the process she was literally quickly counting up while listing the same job, twice, and of course switched to Chinese when we asked ANY questions. She charged me 15 dollars for A BUTTON. I am not sh*tting you, a button-​that didn’t even closely look like the original. More Chinese words when confronted (in my book-​and I am VERY foreign-it’s the first back-​on-​a-​boat indicator, no offense, the least and only effort one can do as an immigrant is to learn the bloody language of the place you live in). Anyhoo, using foreign language as a weapon against disgruntled customers should be a federal offense.
That said, my fiancée was so tired trying to understand her, he gave up and paid her upfront whatever she asked. We are very, very forgiving and patient clients. We made sure five times that she understands what exactly to do, and left. Came back at the end of the week to pick it up. The shop is empty as usual, she is the only one in the back eating lunch. She sees us, recognizes us and yells «Skirt not ready!». We ask her politely if the shirt is ready… well, «Shirt not ready!»…“Is the other skirt ready?” «Other skirt not ready!».you know the drill.
At the end of it, we figure out nothing is ready-​in fact, she didn’t even put a bloody mismatched button on my jacket to begin with. She starts losing her English-​speaking ability entirely when confronted with any decision-​making requirements, tells us that we «must come back at night». We come back later that night, nothing is ready AGAIN, and her excuse is that she was way too busy the whole week and had other orders. And that we «should have paid upfront». My fiancée begrudgingly shows her the receipt.
The weekend is at hand and we are getting married on Monday-​urgghhh… I start to get angry and fiancée threatens her with starting hell with her supervisor-​whoever that might be. She seems to be afraid of this magic word and immediately attempts to convince me that if she just ‘ties up the band in the back on my skirt, I don’t even to have it sewn together…” Basically, she ripped all the stitches out on our garments and tried to pass it off as finished. She repeatedly throughout the whole encounter kept calling my fiancée’s shirt a «dress’:-)))). After much arguing and her being excruciatingly rude and using Chinese all the bloody time, we make her call her manager. Manager isn’t happy with her, not at all. We leave again, come back next day to see that everything has changed-​she is cheerful, smiling, the clothes are finished, everything looking alright and she is beaming with glee telling us how happy she is to have us as her customers, and can’t wait for us to come back later.
We remove the shotgun from her @ss and leave.
God, I wish, that would have been the perfect ending. :-)))

Four stars because you can get your alterations done at the same time you’re getting your clothes cleaned. It’s one of those small businesses, which there seems to be many of them, that you need to support.
And it’s in front of the bus stop and almost next to First Cake Bakery, in the same vicinity as Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant and Khon Toke Thai, across the street from Liberty Market and Thom’s Natural Foods… you can make it an all-​in-​one experience and you won’t even be out of breath since they are all steps away from one another. And if you really feel the need to catch your breath St. Monica’s is across the street.

The woman who works here conveniently doesn’t understand/​speak English when she messes something up. She botched all 4 jobs I had her do (sewing), and couldn’t even do them in the time SHE told me it would take (I didn’t ask for a rush job). I asked her for a snap on the inside of 2 shirts to keep them from gaping between the buttons, and she sewed them in through the OUTSIDE. Even though she re-​did them as I was standing there, the shirts both now have tiny visible holes where she’d sewn. Both the hems have come out of the 2 pants she did for me– on the FIRST DAY I WORE THEM. I didn’t even know that was physically possible. She also has a knack for charging more than she said she would, but then claiming that she did «[insert something in chinese] for no charge». Whatever.
Avoid at all costs.

They wrote on my clothes. Yes, they took a pen and wrote identification information on the clothes rather than using removable tags. To add to the joy, they got a stray pen mark on the back of my shirt.

This place is really reliable. They cleaned my D&G satin bustier without ruining the fabric. They are gentle when it is needed. They always have my clothes done on time and aren’t expensive. They will rush a cleaning without problem if you ask.
Geary Cleaners is like your favorite lounge pants. Nothing fancy but reliable comfort nonetheless.

The seamstress here is wonderful! My dog ate the zipper off of 2 of my favorite jackets– one of which is a down jacket and amost impossible to repair without all the feathers coming out. I have taken my coats to multiple tailors, and the lowest estimate I got was $ 50 per jacket.
The woman at Geary Cleaners fixed my jackets to better-​than-​new condition, for a combined brice less than half of the other places…
AND when I told her I was going skiing for the weekend, she did them in one day!