Putting new zip in anorak

Primrose

I have a much loved anorak whose zip has busted. Can anybody tell me how much a dry cleaners/repair shop might charge to have the zip replaced.

flea72

Around £10

Wow, just checked my local drycleaners price list and they charge £25 for a plastic coat zip. Its £10 for a skirt zip

p00

Our local shop charges £8 if you live in Newcastle under Lyme

Peggybabcot

Hi I do clothing alterations for a living although I no longer replace zips as it's not economically viable. As it's impossible to carry every colour, style and length of zip it means searching for one every time I did a job. This coupled with the unpicking, basting and finally sewing it made it a very long winded process. In order to pay myself above the minimum wage after all other costs were factored in meant it was often as cheap to buy a replacement garment. A classic example is a pair of jeans. Supermarkets sell them for as little as a fiver but to buy a zip alone would be over £1. Add the time it takes to actually do the job as well as taking the garment off the customer etc etc and you'd struggle to pay yourself half the hourly minimum wage. Anyway I digress but the comment above is correct you'd expect to pay around £25 for an anorak zip to be put in. Open ended zips are around £5 to buy but it takes forever to do the job properly. From a consumers point of view it seems expensive, after all you could probably buy a new one for less but remember where it was made. Probably in a country where the average daily wage is pence sadly. You tube may be able to offer some advice to do it yourself if you're handy with a needle otherwise £25 is about the going rate for a job like this x

TravellingAbuela

I paid £10 to have a new zip put in my little DGD's anorak. DH has now busted the zip on his best [and favourite!] anorak and I told him it would be over double that to have it replaced. So £25 sounds about right.

I used to do a lot of sewing in the past (out of necessity not choice!) and won't even consider doing it for him. It's such a faffy & time consuming job that I'm surprised anybody does it for even £25!!

Primrose

I have just contacted my local dry cleaners/clothing repair shop who have quoted around £25, and yes, as an amateur sewer many years ago, I can understand all the hassle involved in replacing a long zip of this nature. My sewing machine is broken and I was never very good at inserting zips in the first place. The anorak was inherited from my now deceased mum, and is warm and cosy so I would like to keep it going for sentimental reasons so will pay what I takes to keep it going. Thanks for all your comments. .

booter

Yep, I agree, anorak zips are a complete faff to put in! But have you thought about changing the fastening method completely? I had a zip break on a jacket and dreaded the thought of replacing it - so added toggles instead. Just sewing, no buttonholes, no zips - and I loved my duffel jacket