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How An Architect Designed The Perfect Ironing Board Cover For His Mother.

Margarita. With Daisy Mae.
Our Tri-Coloured Rough Collie.

There’s always a reason why some things work. When others don’t.

Here’s the story:

I’m Carol Jones. My partner’s mother, Margarita, had the same problems with her ironing board cover that you have. Except that her problems were complicated by the fact that she had just suffered her 2nd stroke. Which left her with no feeling in her right hand.

She really was seriously struggling to keep her cover on her ironing board.

Her son, my partner, Victor Pleshev, an architect, said there has to be a cover out there that will stay put. So one Saturday he went shopping in Sydney. And brought her back 7 covers to try.

Not one of them fit her board properly.

They were either too small. Too big. The elastic wasn’t tight enough.

And she couldn’t pull a drawstring taut enough.

Victor. Wanting to help her. Said that:

“If I can design a multi-story building to stay up. I can design an ironing board cover to stay on my mother’s board.”

Using his 25 years experience as an architect.

And his knowledge of building and construction techniques. He designed a cover that would never move.

It was a breakthrough solution.

He anchored the cover to her board using an easy to use flexible tension cord that criss-crosses over 4 hooks underneath any board.

A simple solution. To a difficult problem.

Margarita was given her cover as a surprise birthday gift.

She loved her cover so much she told all her friends. A week later. 20 of her friends wanted a cover. Through word of mouth, another 50 covers were ordered. Before long, we had made 500 covers on the dining room table of our farmhouse on our remote rural property.

An accidental business is born. Which today, is nudging close to 500,000 customers. In 30 countries.

The ironing board cover made for Margarita is the Fitz Like A Glove™ Ironing Board Cover. Guaranteed to never move on your board. For any reason. And this is why it always shows off its bottom. Because it’s its best feature. The underside of the Fitz Like A Glove™ Cover makes it special for a lifetime of trouble free ironing.
 
 

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We Always Show Off Our Bottom! It’s Our Best Feature.

$45.95 for a lifetime of tantrum free ironing.

It’s the underside of the Fitz Like A Glove™ Ironing Board Cover that makes it special. And different to other ironing board covers.

You want a cover to fit whatever size your board is. To fit perfectly, regardless of what you’re ironing. You don’t want it to ever move, ride up, wrinkle, crease, and curl its toes up when you’re putting the finishing touches on your best garment or heritage quilt. You like colour, but definitely don’t want it to bleed on anything you own. You might not wash your cover frequently, but when you do, you don’t want it to fall apart. So the fabric has to be pretty special. And you don’t want to throw it away every few months and have to buy another one.

The Fitz Like A Glove™ Ironing Board Cover will fit your board perfectly. It never moves, it lasts for an obscene length of time, it looks fabulous on your board and it makes ironing a breeze. This cover will fit all your criteria. And we’ve guaranteed all of this since 1994.

Not only that, but it’s made with love and care in rural Australia by men and women who have a disability. They’re our heroes. They put their heart and soul into everything they do. And it shows!
 
 

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Only Seconds To Secure. No Lacing Or Struggling With Draw Strings.

Simply criss-cross the elastic tension system over 4 hooks and the cover never moves or wrinkles because it’s self adjusting. Stays drum tight even when pressing sheets, tablecloths, quilts or any large item. Your board folds up and down as easily as before.

Why do other cover manufacturers only show you the top? Because there’s nothing underneath. It’s the same old elastic or drawstring round the edges, which never really stops the cover from wrinkling. It’s just more of the same.

The breakthrough came when an architect, Victor Pleshev, heard his mother’s plea for a cover that would never wrinkle and stay on her board. Using his 25 years of design and construction experience, he saw a simple solution. Add a criss-cross, elastic tension system under the cover.
 
 

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The Fitz Like A Glove™ Ironing Board Cover is available in the following colours. Please note that on-screen colours may vary depending on your browser and monitor settings.

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Facts. Facts. Facts.

The fabric. Its tough, 100% pure cotton drill for smooth ironing and a long, long life. Fabrics that are part synthetic won’t stand high heat and leave black residue on your iron.

No garish patterns. Plain, colourfast colours won’t stain your clothes or wash out. And always look smart on your board. Printed patterns are rarely colourfast and are often part synthetic.

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One standard size fits all popular boards from: 33cmW x 111cmL (13″W x 44″L) to 46cmW x 140cmL (18″W x 56″L) and everything in between. The tension system is self adjusting for a drum tight fit.

With smaller or larger boards we can still help.

Our extra small cover fits boards from 29cmW x 85cmL to 34cmW x 110cmL. (11.5″W x 34″L) to (13.6″W x 44″L).

The extra large cover fits boards from 47cmW x 138cmL to 50cmW x 146cmL. (18″W x 55″L) to (20″W x 58.5″L). Our Superior Felt Underlay WILL NOT FIT this size board.

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Our covers don’t have padding sewn in so they never get lumpy. We only recommend and sell the best quality, compressed felt sheet to give a smoother ironing surface. And you won’t need new padding with every cover.

The pouch the cover comes in turns into a great storage solution for when you need a place to store your clothes brush, spray bottle or iron cleaner in easy reach?

Who uses the cover? Anyone who irons will benefit from the Fitz Like A Glove Ironing Board Cover but in particular it’s a boon for patchwork and quilters, sewers, ironing services, dressmakers, wedding gown designers, tailors, school fashion design courses, clothing alteration services and laundries. The cover is appreciated by professionals and trades persons alike who are used to, and expect, efficiency and quality in the tools that they use.

Wrinkle free, trouble free, profanity free ironing makes this cover a joy to use. So give it a try.
 
 

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Our Guarantee

Protecting our customers since 1994.

You get four essential guarantees. At $45.95+p&h, it’s absolutely risk free.

1 A 100% unconditional refund, including postage, if you’re not happy for any reason.
2 Guaranteed against wear and tear for 12 months (lots are going strong after 5 years).
3 Guaranteed to be not only colourfast, but rub fast as well.
4 And most important; the fit is guaranteed for the life of the cover.
A lot of people have put their heart and soul into this cover. The design, quality and customer service is as good as we can make it. But the real heroes are the men and women with disabilities who manufacture the cover. They’re the ones who make sure that you get the best product possible.

We strongly recommend our superior felt underlay as the perfect partner to the Fitz Like A Glove™ Cover. You’ll never have a better ironing surface and there’s no extra postage.
 
 

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All Up, There Are 20 Components Which Make Up This Cover.

Every Piece Has Been Tested And Sourced To Last The Distance.

Fabric details: We use heavy duty, 190 gsm (grams per square metre) cotton drill. This fabric has a diagonal weave, which means that it’s resistant to distortion. square weave fabrics have less resistance to stretching and become baggy quickly. Weight is important too. A typical supermarket cover weighs 75 to 90 gsm and more weight means much more durability.

Why not synthetic fabrics? The highest setting on your iron is for linen and cotton and that’s what your cover should be. You wouldn’t iron synthetic fabrics on a cotton heat setting, so why use a cover that can’t take the heat.

Colour details: If it’s not colour fast then the dye will end up on your clothes. If the fabric is printed rather than dyed through, there is more chance of the dye rubbing off on your clothes. Check the instructions. If it says “wash before use” it will almost certainly run. We choose our colours very carefully. We make sure that dye doesn’t rub off. And because you will have your cover for a long time, it must be easy to live with. So they’re all plain, rich colours, which are never out of fashion.

Tension cord details: there’s a tension cord holding the cover in place, which is made of 12 separate, very fine elastic strands bound with a woven polyester casing. The resulting 3mm diameter composite elastic cord has remarkable stretch and recovery, is fully washable and snag resistant.

Elastic details: There is also a 9mm perimeter elastic, which is woven not knitted (because it’s stronger) . We go to the trouble of threading this elastic through the skirt hem rather than sewing it in like other covers. This leaves your cover free to slide over this elastic, adjusting out all the wrinkles. While the tension cord keeps the cover smooth on top, this elastic makes sure that the cover hugs your board evenly round the perimeter.

Anchor point details: There are 11 tough anchor points for the tension cord. 9 of these are made of 8mm, tubular, woven cotton cording and the 2 end points are made of 32mm woven cotton webbing. Into each end point we insert a brass eyelet with washer to take the end of the tension cord. Brass so that it doesn’t rust and the washers make sure that the eyelets don’t pull out.

Attachment details: The tension cord is hooked over 4 polypropylene curtain glides used as hooks. Chosen for their durability and ease of use these curtain glides make ideal attachment points. They can be handled easily by people with hand problems and once attached, the mushroom stud makes sure that the tension cord stays in place until released.

Australian Made: Our covers are made in the Central Tablelands of NSW, by men and women who have disabilities. They are sewn with 5 thread, industrial overlockers for an absolutely secure finish. Our sewers make sure that every anchor point is caught with all 5 threads, the tension cord is tied off with triple knots and the perimeter elastic is tied with a 75mm tail for a safe finish.

Quality control details: Each cover is checked 3 times. Twice in the factory and once by us before we dispatch. If it’s not as perfect as we can get it, we don’t send it.
 
 

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Tips For Success

Get More Mileage Out Of Your Cover

After selling many, many covers, we’ve been intrigued to find that for 80% of customers, our cover lasts from 3 to 9 years, while others order more frequently. Our investigations have produced interesting results, which will help extend the life of your cover.

Underfelt. It’s the quiet achiever of your ironing surface. You need good quality, thick felt under your cover for two, very good reasons:

• To provide a smooth, resilient surface for quicker ironing and
• To insulate your cover from your metal board so that your cover lasts longer.

If your ironing surface isn’t smooth and resilient, your iron snags your clothes as you iron, slowing you down and producing poor results.

Good underfelt prevents the metal top and edges from heating up and burning your cover from underneath. Contact with hot metal will dramatically shorten the life of your cover.

For smoother ironing and a longer life for your cover, always use good quality, thick felt, as this does better under heat. Never, ever use foam rubber as it compresses and solidifies under heat.

Just as important. Don’t use pre-cut felt as it’s always smaller than your board and exposes the metal edges, and hence your cover, to heat from your iron. Always trim the felt 2 to 3cms larger than your board so that the felt rolls over the edge, padding and insulating it all round the board.

Signs of trouble. If you see the mesh pattern from your board appearing on your cover, or your iron snags, or you can feel the metal edges, it’s time to upgrade.

Water spillage. You will quite often spill water on your cover. No problem! Our covers are colour fast and washable. But if you dry the water with your hot iron (always tempting) the cover will deteriorate at about twice the normal rate. Damage typically appears in a circular pattern, at the back of your board. The fabric becomes brittle, discoloured and eventually tears.

Water soaks into the fibres causing them to expand. Applying a hot iron turns the water to steam. The steam expands and bursts through the fibres to escape. This weakens the fibres and over time causes a complete breakdown of the fabric. The occasional spill is OK, but regular iron drying is to be avoided.

We suggest. That you fill your iron over the sink if convenient, or keep a heat proof tray handy to put under the iron when filling, or let the spill dry naturally.

We’ve had a 100% success rate in improving the life of covers when these suggestions are followed. You should get thousands of hours of trouble free ironing out of your Fitz Like A Glove™ Ironing Board Cover and we get concerned if you don’t.
 
 

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Dear Carol

Thank you, thank you, thank you, my order arrived yesterday morning – delivered to my front door.

As you know I ordered two covers and two underfelt – one for me and one for a lovely friend, another Carole (with an “e”) !

To be quite frank, I didn’t really need another cover as the one I bought from you in 2008 is in perfect condition. Some might say “Well, you probably don’t do much ironing”, but I would tell them that it’s still in good condition because it’s a quality product. Anyway, I thought I should buy another one just in case you and Victor decided to retire and left me and all your other devoted customers in total despair! All I can say is, I’m glad I found you at Greenwood Plaza all those years ago.

I notice that you’ve moved to Victoria to a property just as wonderful as you had at Ilford. I hope it is everything you wish it to be.

Thank you, good health and best wishes to you both.

Helen x

PS Love your photographs.

Helen NSW

A month later, another email from Helen.

Good afternoon Carol,
Yes, another friend now wants one of your phenomenal ironing board covers + underlay. She had requested Gumleaf, but I note you now have Lush Myrtle Green. I presume it is a similar green, so I’m sure she’ll be happy with it. Kind regards & thanks
Helen NSW
 
 

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All the photographs are of our property and are taken by Carol Jones. To view more of Carol’s photos click here. For more information contact us and talk to Carol.

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