CRDN of the Tri-Counties - Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network and Insurance Restoration

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CRDN of the Tri-Counties

WHAT IS CRDN?

The Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN) is an international network of textile professionals who specialize in insurance restoration laundry and dry-cleaning services for all types of loss including fire, smoke, water, mold and other contaminants. CRDN serves customers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

CRDN was founded on a time-tested model developed over several years by Wayne Wudyka at Huntington Cleaners in Huntington Woods, Michigan. This system includes extensive training in chemicals and processes used in restoration drycleaning, computer software training on a system specifically developed for the unique needs of restoration drycleaning and intensive logistical training in the inventorying, tracking, and storing of a homeowners garments and fabric items.

Serving the Tri-Counties Restoration Drycleaning targets the fastest growing category on insurance claims: contents. On average, textile restoration costs only 16% of replacement, which means an average savings of 84%. CRDN is a network of the top Drycleaners across the country effectively bridging the gap between drycleaners and the insurance industry by providing RESTORATION of "damaged" clothing and fabric items at a substantial savings over the high replacement cost that often gets paid out. As a result, restoration drycleaners are becoming a valuable partner to the insurance industry, as well as, Disaster Restoration Contractors. Yet no organization has systematically provided restoration drycleaning services that meet the distinct needs of homeowners and all of these different companies -- until now...

CRDN of the Tri-Counties, a Division of Ablitt's Fine Cleaners of Santa Barbara, California has been a member of CRDN since 2002. Although we have done restoration work for over 20 years in Santa Barbara, we've never given it the priority and attention this type of work deserves. We have been through the CRDN training. We have purchased the necessary equipment and put the new systems in place. We have secured the exclusive territory of all 500,000 homes in the Tri-Counties: San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County and Ventura County. The Restoration Drycleaning Division of Ablitt's Fine Cleaners is now called "CRDN of the Tri-Counties".

OUR BEAUTIFUL FACILITY
CRDN’s facility at 14 W. Gutierrez Street in spectacular Santa Barbara, California was built specifically as a cleaning facility in 1930 and has been one ever since. With real estate in Santa Barbara at stratospheric levels, we are truly fortunate to own one of the finest cleaning facilities in the country. The Architect was Rollard F. Sauter, best known for his classic, subdued Spanish Colonial Revival works such as City Hall, the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion and Santa Barbara High School. The Contractor was the legendary Charles Urton, noted for his extravagant use of reinforced concrete, which is very evident in Ablitt's/CRDN’s facility as well as other Urton projects such as the News-Press building and the Granada Theater. The Dreamer was George H. Merritt, an Englishman by birth, a perfectionist by nature and a dry cleaner by trade. Merritt commissioned the project in 1929 and by 1930 had built the largest dry cleaning facility west of the Mississippi. The building has withstood the test of time very well, and provides a comfortable workplace for all fifty of our employees. Rare for a building so close to the sea, two separate basements house the boiler room and space formerly used to clean rugs.